April 7, 2025 • 41 mins
Chilly weather. Dog stuff. Costco is discontinuing its soy milk. Hershey’s buys LesserEvil. Brazos County Commissioner Bentley Nettles. National Beer Day! AI lawyer. Things that chatbots cannot do. Most viewed TikTok in the world. Cheez-It pizza.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
WTA all you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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City of Brian officials are reviewing proposals for the future
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operation of Travis Field Stadium. An update was given by
Parks and Recreation Director Brad Stafford.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I think we received four proposals on that. We're still
in the process of evaluating all those and hopefully we'll
have something pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The review of proposals includes future uses for the baseball stadium.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We're actually just looking for somebody to give us a
proposal and some ideas of what can happen in the area.
It may stay the same, it may change, it may
you know, but it will be a baseball facility.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Tomorrow's Brian Council agenda does not include the stadium. Last month,
the council discussed in private the agreement with the current operator,
which expires later this year. The agenda for today's special
meeting of the Ryan ISD School Board includes a proposed
contract to replace the artificial turf at Meryl Green Stadium.
This comes two weeks after a board member brought up
where to find the money for the project. A BASD
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spokesman says the money for the seven hundred thousand dollars
replacement will come from what has not been spent from
bond issues approved in twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen. Artificial
turf was originally installed at the stadium in twenty twelve.
The agenda also brings up a change in administrative leadership.
Assistant Superintendent Kevin Besau confirmed to wt News he is
retiring as the district's chief financial officer and Assistant superintendent
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of Business Services. Board members are scheduled to consider beesaw
successor today. Beesaw, who will retire at the end of June,
joined bisD in twenty twelve and is completing his seventh
year in his current position. A Texas Senate committee here's
public testimony about moving the University of Houston at Victoria
to the A and M system of SB twenty three
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sixty one include the owner of the largest car dealer
in Texas, Ben Keating, of Victoria, who is dealerships in
Brian and College Station, says this will attract more of
the eighty thousand high school graduates within one hundred miles
of Victoria.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Currently, the typical market share of UHV within one hundred
miles is around one percent. The typical market share of
other universities in the A and M system is around
ten percent. I think that shows the massive opportunity that
we have there if enacted.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
What is described as a friendly and cooperative transfer requires
the systems to approve a memorandum of understanding by June
first that spells out how to complete the transition by
September first. Members of the Texas House had the weekend
to consider proposed amendments to the next state budget. Representative
Paul Dyson O'Brian brought up a new process during his
latest update on our show.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
A Mimitr're going to be due for the budget on
Monday by nine am.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Dyson says.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The idea is for House members have a genuine discussion
about moving the money around in the budget.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We're gonna set it up trying lower a little bit
of the chaos.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Dyson says. The House of Budget amendments will be taken up.
On Thursday, a seventeen year old was arrested by College
Station police for reckless driving in the Northgate district. The
arrest report says Saturday night, thirty minutes after the bars closed,
Javier Maciel drove away while an officer was asking him
about having open containers of alcohol in his truck. Macil
drove in the wrong lane, struck at least one vehicle,
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and threatened pedestrians as he drove away while officers had
drawn their guns. Macil was eventually arrested after officers found
his truck. WTW news time is eight minutes after eight.
It's forty one degrees. News is presented by David's Jewelry
and Coin Exchange. More news at eight thirty or online
at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Rebert for sixteen twenty
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ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It is a No.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Nine.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
It's the Inflamating Acs on a Monday morning. Next half
after the news, we're gonna have our first county commissioner ever,
I think come into the studio as a sitting Kelly Commissioner,
which will be kind of interesting. Bentley Nettles will be
here to talk about that is one of the new
guys on the on the court. In the meantime, Les's
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Speaker 7 (04:14):
High pressure will bring dry weather to start the week
across south central Texas. It'll be a sunny and breezy
day today with highs in the mid to upper sixties. Tonight,
we'll bring clear skies with temperatures falling to near forty.
The sunshine will continue through the day on Tuesday, with
highs in the mid seventies. There will be another day
of sunshine on Wednesday. It'll be slightly warmer as temperatures
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climb to the low to mid eighties. I'm meteorologist Morgan Bolton, sixteen,
twenty ninety four. Five. Wutaw, Oh, there you go.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
It's it's a chili this morning. If you weren't up early, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Gonna be still chilly even if you're up now.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, that's true. I guess it probably is. We're inside,
we know the sun is shining. Gets a glorious day
out there, and it'll be okay. Later on the day, well,
the Tempts will still have winds out of the north
all day long, but the tempts will get up to
probably sixty five sixty six.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It was interesting on Saturday when I drove to Houston.
I left College Station around lunchtime. It was around noon,
and it was already cold here, like it was sixty degrees.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I physically drove through.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The front like I could because my windows, like I
had just gotten into like the outskirts of Houston, and
my windows even kind of like fogged up for a second.
And then I looked at my the temperature reader like
on my in my car, and I watched it go
from sixty two to eighty two.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh wow, in like five minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And so I got to Houston and it was eighty
two degrees.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
And this was so funny.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, and then and then obviously the front was just
moving slower than my vehicle and so yeah, and then
it came in afterwards.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
It was so bizarre. Okay, that is unusual, it really is. Well, anyway,
it's gonna be nice today, and if you need to
go outside and work in your yard, you can do that.
So yes, you you run off and you leave your
at home her.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I just left her to defend herself.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
In the climate control Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
No, she she stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's yeah, for
the night, which you know, she she loves going over there,
she really does. But every time I leave her, I mean,
I was gone less than twenty four hours and my
mom and every time I come back to pick her up,
my mom always says, yeah, she just she looks so sad,
And I'm like, maybe that's just her face, Like maybe
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she just looks kind of MOPy.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She does, but I think I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
My mom swears that she is just like so depressed,
which makes me feel good, I guess, but it also
makes me feel guilty for leaving her for even like.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
A little bit of time.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
So I also.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Watched, watched physically saw Buddy use his nose as like
a weapon against her. I'm like, no, wonder she doesn't
like being here like he he like pokes her, he
like jabs her with his nose, his long docs and nose.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
He wants her to play like.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's the thing is, he is just like so annoying,
but he just so badly wants some attention and books her.
But I will say, my mom told me this. It
was really sweet. She said, Saturday night, the dogs went
out one last time, so it's like nighttime, it's dark,
and so Buddy comes back in and Mom goes to
the door and she, you know, says Dottie, and Dottie
didn't come and so, you know, and she'll she'll get
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under the bushes and she's sniffing and whatever. And so
she my mom looked at Buddy and goes, well, Buddy,
go get her. And it's like he knew exactly what
she meant. He ran off to the corner of the house,
couldn't find her, runs back to the other side, and
then like all of a sudden, Dottie pops out and
Buddy is.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Coraling her back to the house. And she said, it
was so cute and it was so funny. Yeah, go
get her.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Come on. And so if neither of us are home
and I get home, then Maggie will stand in the
hallway and she hears the car house door come up,
so she figures Mom's home. I opened the door and
she looks and then she turns and walks back into
the you're not Mom, no exactly. Mob comes home and yeah,
she just goes crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Now, if we're both gone for most of the day
and I come in, well then yes, she'll wag her tails. Yeah,
but I'm the guy who takes her for a ride
and a walk and pretty much that she knows. The
rest of the time, she follows Jackie around because good
things happen. Oh yeah, yeah, so there's always that that
happens alright in the meantime. What's uh, so does does Dotty?
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I mean she would Does she play with Buddy at all?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
No, no, she with him? Is that interesting that that
a dog who's had it done because Buddy used to
have a pal, right you Buddy?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, Buddy is an only child. Oh that, and he
acts like one.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
He does not like to share toys.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He he loves to play with toys, and he'll steal
toys if I don't even bring Dottie's over anymore because
they end up just staying there.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, and I don't know. I mean she she.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Likes other dogs, like I take her to the dog
park and there are other dogs that she seems to
get excited. He is just in her face, like twenty
four to seven, And so I think that's why.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
She's just like get away from me. But they get it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But they get along, like they're fine together and you
know they'll run around in the backyard and chase squirrels
together and stuff. But yeah, you know she doesn't she
doesn't like wrestle and want to play and anything like that.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Yeah, okay, Hey, what's to do in the world of Costco.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Man, So people are so obsessed with these Kirkland signature brands.
Yeah that they have, right, they get like we've heard
about the rotistary chicken, right yeah, yeah, and exactly, and
it's very similar. They have good prices, similar to other products.
I've even heard like their Kirkland signature golf clubs and
golf balls are like titleists really, you know so I
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think Taylor Made sued them at one point for likeness.
Oh either way, people get very addicted to their Kirkland
signature stuff and they want it there. The latest to
be discontinued is making people mad. And it is their
Kirkland signature soy milk that people are apparently obsessed with.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I guess just because it's a really good price, yea,
that they have there. So listen to this. They Costco
did say, yes, we have discontinued it for now. It's
possible that it could come back, but just not at
this moment. So on the Costco website, you can get
a twelve pack of thirty two ounce containers. Who eighteen
dollars and forty nine cents. WHOA, that's really cheap. The
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same thing on Amazon is fifty three dollars. Yeah, so
they are still selling it. They still have it, and
they still have it in store. No, no, no, well they're
gonna sell out of it in stores like they do.
This is just yeah, they said, if you Apparently Kirkland
signature stuff is also on Amazon. Oh okay, so it
is the this is the brand. It's the Kirkland brand
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being sold on Amazon. I don't know how that works obviously.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
But yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I mean we're talking a dollar fifty four per carton
versus four fifty per cart Wow. Just lots of people
on it saying no, don't take it. It's so good,
you can't beat the price.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
People are still drinking soy milk. But I guess the.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Editor says the price cannot be beat. I mix it
with my protein shake dailien and devastated. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well, you can still get soy milk.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
It's going to be more. You just have to make
the adjust.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I wonder why they're discontinuing it if it's that popular, and.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
They the Costco comes out and says, yeah, we just aren't.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
It's just a business decision. We aren't selling enough of it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I was going to say, that's indicated people that really
want it well, and you know.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
We talk about that, right, it's like the minority that
can be the loudest at times, and so obviously it's
not that well.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Yeah, right, And that's if there's a negative about Costco,
and there aren't many negatives about it. But if there's
a negative about Costco is that in some areas of
the country they will have a product that they don't
have another places. And so that's why you get. You
hear about something, you get ramped up about it, you
want to go in and they just don't have it. Yeah,
just do not have it now. But as we've talked about,
and if you know they have so few SKUs, the
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Skew numbers, which is a stock keeping unit that numbers
still exists somewhere in their system. Do they take that
out or do they bring it back. But I think
you've answered the question. Really, there aren't enough nationwide. It's
not worth it to distribute the project anymore. So they
just don't do it. And they are from a business
standpoint there again, an interesting company when it comes to that.
So let's see what else we got going on. H Hershey,
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they're a pretty big company. They are a big company,
and they're trying to be healthy.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Now, well really kind of, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So they are acquiring a new brand, I guess you
should say, or a new company that makes healthier snacks.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Now I had never heard.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Of this, but it's called Lesser Evil. So in Hershey, yep,
Hershey is buying Lesser Evil. It is a maker of
organic snacks that prioritize bold flavors with better for you ingredients.
The purchase price was not disclosed, but according to Wall
Street Journal, which first reported the deal, said it was
roughly seven hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
So.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Lesser Evil makes popcorn, puffs, curls, and other snacks using
healthier ingredients. Many of its products are made with coconut
oil or avocado oil. Acquisition furthers Hershey's pushed and do
salty snacks because you know, we think chocolate by adding
another fast growing brand to its portfolio while increasing its
snacking options that it can provide to consumers.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
So you know, again built on its iconic suites including Kisses, Reeses,
and Twizzlers, but in recent years they have aggressively moved
to beyond the signature confections by building a presence in
salty snacks.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Hey, another company did that, and of course today we're
talking about him is Kelloggs. Two years ago, Kelloggs split
up into two companies. They had this new one called
kele Nova. Oh that's right, and they do snacking and
they do international series of noodles in North America, they
do frozen foods, and so they have two companies. So
the Kelloggs that you know, but then they got into
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that snack world too. They needed to do it, but
they decided to do it with a completely different name.
It's a twenty three and seemfo many acts on this
Monday morning. So I tried to watch the pit Okay, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
My tribe means you probably didn't.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I was able to because it was buffering. Oh and
that's not their fault, it's my cable Rice. Okay, I
was like, watch it. So I tried it, and I thought, okay,
well you know whatever. Yeah, yeah, and then I tried
it like four in the afternoon. It buffered then, so
I went, okay, well that's that's my cable provider.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So yeah, I have to complain to them, Okay, Yeah,
and I will say and what I've I've talked when
I've talked about the pit, it did take me a
couple episodes to get into. I think the cheers we
were talking about earlier, how the whole first season just
took place in the bar. Yeah, the pit, I mean
the entire season takes place in the emergency room.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Reading an article about that, which was really interesting because
they were able to produce that for like one tenth
what it costs to do these other shows because they
have one set and one set that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Actually they built two identical Okay, they could get camera
angles from any place they wanted, nice, which is a
really smart thing.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, because it is.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I mean, obviously it's still a large space, like you've
got different trauma rooms, you've got the whole nurses station
in the middle, like then there's a waiting room, so
you do have that, and then there is like you
do see the ambulance bay where they come in like
outside of the building, So it's not like you're just
in one room the whole time, but it is definitely
just the emergency room department that it takes place in.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
The Other thing they do is they dress grips and
other production people in scrubs.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Oh that's smart, it really is. Yeah, that way they
taught and it can be moved through.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
That right exactly. And so as a result, I mean
they talked about how it is so inexpensive to make
that show interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah, like I said, I really enjoyed. I think it's
fifteen total episodes and the thirteenth just came out last
weekend or last week, so I think there's two more. Yeah,
it's Noah Wilie. There's the emergency room, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Leader.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
They interviewed him and he said it's so good because
we can shoot an episode in like a week. Yeah,
and yeah, others that have to do this it takes
them three months or whatever. So nobody can gain weight
or lose weight or whatever. It's really as and.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And truly there's a little bit of personal drama in
personal life that you see, but it's not like Grey's Anatomy,
where you know, you've got doctors like making out in
the breakroom and like, yeah, so there is there is
personal stuff, but it's more about the medicine. It's more
about the patients. But speaking of medical dramas, there's a
new one on Netflix. It's called Pulse, and it takes
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place in an emergency room in Miami, and it's very good.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
How is it different? How is it different? Show?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
This is more like Grey's Anatomy Like this, like Pulse
is definitely still a little bit more like Grey's Anatomy.
You've got you've got relationships. It actually starts with one
of the doctors has filed a sexual harassment claim against
another doctor, and so you've got the whole like relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But then you've got the actual you know, and and the.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
First episode starts with a hurricane at Miami and so
you've got you know, the natural disaster situation going on.
But I again, I love medical dramas. It's my cup
of tea. If you like them, I definitely would check
out Pulse on Netflix.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
WTAW news time is eight thirty one, it's forty four degrees.
Good morning, I'm Chelsea reberb The City of Brian has
four proposals for the future operation of Travis Field Stadium.
An update from Parks and Recreation Director Brad Stafford included
the first review of who will manage operations since two
thousand and six.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Whenever contracts start to time out, well then you've got
to go back to the drawing board and at least
you know, see what's out there. Things change over the years.
You know, Brin's changed a lot in the last twenty years,
and so you know, you want to just make sure
that we're doing the very best we can for our citizens.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Stafford said parks, including the stadium, are part of the
city's quality of life.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We want to make sure that there's something enjoyable for
people to do. You know, they have the bombers today
and you know, maybe the bombers for years to come,
and I think that's always great for us to have
that opportunity for our citizens and the surrounding communities to
be able to come in enjoy some time in Brian,
spend a little money.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Last month, the Brian Council discussed in private the agreement
with the current operator, which expires later this year. Tomorrow's
council agenda does not include the stadium. A Brian man
tells police where to find a man who took a
weed eater and a jigsaw out of a storage shed
that led to the suspect's fortieth trip to the Brass
County jail. Forty five year old Ernest Warren the Third
was charged with theft innovating arrest with prior convictions for
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what happened last Thursday. A Brian woman was booked at
the Brazos County Jail for the sixtieth time last Thursday.
Fifty four year old Elizabeth Morrow is charged with stealing
a wallet that the victim left behind at a convenience
store last October. The arrest report says a BPD detective
received information from a private investigator who was hired by
the victim. Online record Showmorrow's jail record dates back to
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nineteen eighty nine. A College Station man was arrested by
Texas A and M Police after a bset list was
struck by a hit and run driver. The bicyclist who
was hit by a pickup the morning of March twenty
six that John cambro and Penberthy was taken by friends
to the hospital for a treatment of non life threatening injuries.
UPD officers use video from campus cameras to identify the truck.
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The driver, twenty two year old John Casper of College Station,
is out of jail after posting bond following his arrest
for leaving the scene of a collision involving an injury.
What may become the twelfth university in the Texas A
and M system gets a public hearing and a State
Senate committee. The author of SB twenty three sixty one,
Lowis cole course to Brinham, says she first learned of
the idea of moving the University of Houston Victoria into
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the A and M system ten years ago.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
I want to compliment Texas A and M for going
and doing their due diligence. They've challenged the community, they've
challenged me, and we're going to continue to work to
make this an outstanding university for the region.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Victoria Mayor Dwayne Crocker brought up the importance of having
A and m's agriculture, engineering, and health programs.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Are critical for economic growth not only Victoria our region,
but also for the state of Texas.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
They will help support existing industry and also help bring
in new industry.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
If enacted, the two systems have until June first to
adopt a memorandum of understanding that spells out how the
transfer will be completed by September first. This Thursday, the
Texas House takes up the next state budget. Representati Paul
Dyson of Brian's as proposed budget amendments have to be
filed by this morning at nine.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
You have that put in take rules, So, in other words,
if you're going to put money somewhere, you got to
show where you're taking it away from.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Dyson says a special procedure has been set up to
consider amendments.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
That way people can have a genuine discussion about what
money needs to be moved.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Around in the budget.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Dyson says the intention is to lower some of the chaos.
A special meeting of the Brian ISD School Board today
could include a change in administrative leadership. BID's Assistant Superintendent
of Business Services and chief financial Officer confirms he is
retiring at the end of June. Kevin Beesaw has been
in his current position for seven years and with bisD
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since twenty twelve. The board could select his successor today.
The board is also being asked to award a seven
hundred thousand dollars contract to replace the artificial turf at
Meryll Green Stadium. This comes two weeks after a member
of the board's finance committee said they were looking for
donors to help pay for the replacement and possibly stadium lights.
A bisD spokesman says funding will come from what has
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not been spent from bond issues that were approved in
twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen. Wtw news time is eight
thirty five. It's forty four degrees. You can always find
more news at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen,
twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
It's the it for MANYX on a Monday morning. And
Bitley Nettles, the county Commissioner for Precinct one joint US.
Thanks for being here this morning, Commissioner.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Thanks for having me. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
So you've been on the job. Let's see how long now?
Speaker 9 (21:51):
I think this is my tenth week.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Okay, ten ten weeks. So we were discussing off the air.
In course, the whole situation the Commissioner's Court is something
that a lot of people don't necessarily understand. I think
Bill Oliver does a good job of getting some of
the news out there that comes from the Court, but
it appears that the Court's you guys are going to
get out there. Now, guys in gal are going to
get out there and try to talk to your constituency.
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Tell us about that.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
I think it's really important to have community engagement. Judge
Kenny Elliott and the Constable Jeff Reeves and I decided
that we wanted to have a forum by which we
could talk to our residents, a precinct one, and so
we're going to try this. First one will be Wednesday
from five to eight at JP one there off of
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William B. Fitch. So the idea is to talk about
some county initiatives. We're going to have Sheriff Wayne Dickey
there talking about some of his programs that he's rolling out.
Also going to have Jason Ware, our emergency management coordinator,
and just have the opportunity for people to come and
ask us questions in a less formal environment so that
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we can figure out what's import well.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
And because people don't necessarily understand, I mean, I'm sure
you probably get calls that, hey, somebody didn't pick my
trash up today, something really has nothing to do with
what a county commissioner does, and so being able to
know the different situations and your responsibilities has a lot
to do with it.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Absolutely. You know, we get all kinds of calls, and
matter of fact, I set up on my website a
way for people to email me or give me their
issues so that it comes in and I can maybe
try to get the right county person to answer their questions,
because there's obviously a whole lot about the county that
I still don't know yet. Sure.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Well, the other thing that I think people are starting
to also recognize is there are more and more places
where the cities and the county now have to join
forces to do things. They've done things financially before, but
if their roads or connections have to happen that are
in the extra territorial jurisdiction, then that gets into the
county and there are different guidelines there.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Absolutely, And one of the challenges I see going forward
for the county is the growth projections that we will
have seventy five thousand more people outside the city limits. Now,
how do we deliver services to those folks? Because that's
the responsibility of the county government in.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Part so I know that the meeting that the court
had had to do with well, a Doge type situation
that clearly is a word that resonates with a lot
of people to understand what it is. And I spoke
to the judge about that last week, and a Doge
type deal where we're doing budget cutting is a difficult
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thing to do in a body like the county.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Your thoughts well, and my thought is the five of
us are the doughs. I mean, we are the budgetary
authority for the county, but we can certainly we have
a lot of smart, talented people in this community. We
could certainly use them to come together and try to
identify I call it Brezes County twenty fifty, how did
we deliver services for the county fifteen years from now?
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Because I believe the expectation is going to be very different.
We need to be online, We need to be servicing
people online if possible, and then creating Yeah, I hate
to steal the term, but world class excellence for our
county services.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Baily Nettles joined us the's county commissioner for PRESOUK. One
one of the other things that's interesting is because this
is such a foreign situation to the regular citizen. How
big a committee could you actually have and what would
you think would be an ideal number to have in
that committee to be efficient?
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Well, so I ran. The judge tapped me to do
the Veteran's Treatment Court, and we had twelve ten or
twelve people on there, and it was like herding cats.
I think smaller is better. If you could get five
they can obviously get advisory from anybody in the county,
but five people is probably the right number in order
to be effective. I mean, if we're going to have
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people volunteering their time and talents, we certainly want them
to be able to come to the county with some
strong recomondations for us to consider. It still has to
be voted on by the county commissioners because one of
the things have become obvious to me watching the.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
County Commissioner's Court.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
We approve every time the county buys a paper clip,
everything comes before the County Commissioner's Court.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
And that's spending a lot of time on some things
that probably could be handled into different ways. Is that
what we're saying here?
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Well, but it's statutorally required so we don't have a choice.
It's really interesting to me. Learning about the county has
been a bit of a challenge, but I do think
there's some opportunities to improve.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Why do you think it's designed that way? As far
as you're concerned by the legislature, you know, I.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
Really don't know. I suspect the legislature wants to Obviously,
we're a representative of the first representative of the state,
so they want to tell us what to do. And
I get that. You know, you're always your higher headquarters
doesn't know what they're doing. Only you do because you're
seeing the ground on the ground, what's happening. So I
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appreciate that, but I do think they really need to
think about when they ask us to do things, how
much it costs. Are they going to provide the funding
or do we have to go get it from our constituents.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
So speak to me about this. Folks may not know
you're a retired brigadier general, so you pretty much would
say something and that's the way it would be. Likewise,
you ran the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, same thing. I said,
a policy, we put that in place. That's a little
bit different here so talk about that well.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
I think that's a simplification of both of those command
control relationships I had, because obviously, in order to get
anything done, you have to have voluntary buy in. There's
only so much people will do, and you don't want
to be in a position where you have to constantly
watch them to do what you're wanting them to do.
So getting people buy in in that direction is very
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important and nothing different in this You have influence. By
the end of the day, I'm one of five votes, right, So,
but we've had some friction with me and the staff
and they're learning and I'm learning. And the idea is
I need the information to make the decisions. I haven't
been there four years. So if you're going to bring
something to the Commission's Court for me to vote on,
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you better provide me the information or I'm not voting
on it or not voting favorably for it.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
So well, we see more workshop sessions in this court,
because workshop has really on the Cali level not been
something that we've seen very often.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
I know the judge seems to be moving in that direction.
I think that's a positive thing. Because the Texas Open
Meetings Act TOMA requires us to have a open form
anytime we try to do government business, which is appropriate
and I support that, but it really sometimes very frustrating
because there could be three of us will suddenly come
together in the hallway and staff's going, wait, you can't
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have three of their and we're just having coffee and
ask them how their day was. So it's a little
frustrating at times.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Sure, one are the phrases that I saw you quoted
in the newspaper key performance indicators. That's what you're looking for.
Define for us in your view, what is a key
performance indicator?
Speaker 9 (29:07):
So the very first key performance indicator would be how
are your customers like the service you're providing? Are your
constituents the people you're serving. If you don't have a
mechanism providing that kind of feedback, how do you know
how you're doing? And that's one of the challenges I
see as I have started my evaluation of the different departments.
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There are fifty departments. Almost twenty five of them are
elected officials, and all have been very gracious and met
with me, and I understand they have their own election
political issues, but I just want to know if you're
going to come to the County Court and ask for money.
Where's your indicators that you're doing a good job in
order for I should give you more money or less money.
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And that's a big challenge, and I think that's a
cultural shift that maybe we need to make at the county.
Some of the departments I believe are moving in that direction,
but we need all of them.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
You know.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
Just the reason we're having this town hall, I want
to hear from the residents of Precinct one what's important
to them, because if I don't know if I and
I'm grateful for the optunity to represent them, but I
don't want to be guessing at what's important to them.
I know what's important to me, and that's greens Perry
Road in front of Woodlake that we don't seem to
be able to get fixed. But we're working on some
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of those challenges.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Anything else this morning.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
I hope everybody comes out. It's going to be a
great opptinity to talk to your county officials, and if
this one goes well, hopefully will try to do it
again a little bit later in the summer.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Okay, remind us again win and where it's.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Going to be This Wednesday, five to eight at Justice
the Priest Justice Precinct one off of William Jeff William Defense.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Okay, bet metals the Conto Commissioner, Precinct one.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
Thanks for the time this.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Morning, sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAWC Info maniac
about twelve minutes untill. I'm the man in the state
of New York. His name is Jerome du Wald tried
to have an a I lawyer defend him in a
court of law. Okay, the judge was not pleased. Hello,
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the judge was not pleased. I okay, it's just not playing.
Now we're going to have to try to download it.
Oh and now it's just frozen.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Okay, okay, Well all right, ma, you save that story
for tomorrow or I'll just started submitted a video.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
We will hear that video now.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
May it please the court?
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I come from here today a humble proceeds panel of
All right, I've distinguished to stop it. Just stop it.
We'll download it and we'll listen to it without see
it's I'm in a world of buffering. I don't know
my cable company's doing that to me, and now this
machine is doing it. Maybe it's me. I don't know. Okay,
all right, well we'll try to download that. In the meantime.
(31:57):
Today is National Beer Day. If you are a beer drinker,
you can celebrate by picking up a really expensive four
pack of double I p A's or something cheaper. Whatever
you happen to like the state with the cheapest beer.
Any idea with the the states with the state with
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the cheapest beer would be.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I'm gonna guess Colorado, okay, or no, no, I'm gonna
take that back.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
I'm gonna go Oklahoma, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
I don't know why I'm thinking, like Mississippi, it's Illinois.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Oh okay, it's Illinois. I wonder why, you know, what.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Does it say?
Speaker 6 (32:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I guess Oklahoma because didn't Oklahoma. I don't know if
this is still the case. But beer sold there or
made there or whatever is it has less alcohol and
near beer. Yeah, because they have like laws in place
that the ABV is lower.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So I assumed maybe it would be cheaper.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yeah, that would that would make sense.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
That's where my thought process was. Maybe Illinois could be
the same way.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
I don't know, the state with the cheapest case of beer.
So that's what they did. Chwenty four packs. Okay, sixteen
dollars and fifty cents, Yeah, which is pretty good. Yea,
that is Texas. I pulled the map up, but my
computer is freezing right now. Oh, I can do that
was about twenty one dollars, which I guess there are
a whole bunch of people. We haven't even talked about
chili Fest. We'll do that in a minute. But so,
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South Carolina was second cheapest, followed by New York State,
which amazes me because I would think they would have
so many taxes that would go along with it that
you would have to I guess more than that. But
then Kansas is also in expenses, so is Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, Connecticut, Virginia.
All of those are some of the cheaper. The most expensive, duh,
would be California, Alaska, Alaska. Yeah, because you know they
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don't make beer in Alaska. Ended up there. I think
they probably don't anyway. The yeah they said, Alaska is
thirty three dollars and sixty cents for a twelve, twenty
four for twenty four. Yeah, Hawaii, what about Hawaii? Hawaii
is twenty four dollars ten dollars lest Yeah, it is
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but textas twenty the map came up. Now twenty one
dollars and seventy cents. What that is? Florida party eighteen dollars? Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
That's yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Somebody did text in and said, Oklahoma is not like
that anymore so, right, that's what they said. I'm not
sure one of our texters okay.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
They would know. All right, So there you go. That's
a national beard again in August is international beard if
you want to celebrate even more so. A company is
selling a stuffed animal called Dino okay, which will snitch
on all the things that your kid tells it in confidence.
Oh no, that come on. It has a built in
AI chat bot that records your child's every word. Oh wow,
(34:50):
I don't know. I mean that's weird. Well, you want
them to be able to talk to it. You want
them I get get to talk back to them from
That's what.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It's interesting though, like a stuffed animal, I mean, like
you're talking about little kids, you know. It's I could
see people want to monitor, like wanting to monitor their
middle schoolers and their high schoolers, you know, and try
to make sure that they're not I don't know, having issues,
but yeah, like your your four.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Year old right.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Cute?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Anyway, so you got that? Okay, all right, I rebooted
my computer. I got that taken care of. Let's go
back to the guy who you decided to use the
AI chat bot as his attorney in court.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
The appellant has submitted a video. We will hear that video.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Now, may it please the court?
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I come here today a humble proceedings for a panel
of five distinguished justices?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Is this hold on?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Is that counsel for the case.
Speaker 10 (35:42):
I generated that that is not a real person. You
did not tell me that, sir, and you have appeared
before this court and been able to testify verbally. You
are not going to use this court room as a
launch for your business. So if you are able to
shut that off, you have five minutes.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, she's not happy.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
No, it was not.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Now I could see a world where this is the future.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Oh yeah, I don't doubt that. You know, the chat
bot could write the brief in Texas in fact, yeah,
but to actually have a in court, yeah, at least
that's what's happened in that about five minutes, Chelsea inform
any Access still going to get down to forty tonight,
just so you know, in case you didn't get enough
cool weather, you'll have one more opportunity. Things that chatbots
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cannot do very well. A food scientist from the University
of Illinois conducted an experiment to see if chat GPT
could evaluate food products, specifically chocolate brownies. The results were
not good. The AI enthusiastically gave high scores to all
fifteen brownie recipes tested, including one with disgusting ingredients like
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a worm meal and fish oil. Okay, yes, and how,
which obviously humans would not like.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Right.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
This revealed a fundamental flaw in AI's ability to evaluate food.
Chat GPT lacks the cultural understanding at this time and
the biological aversion that humans have towards certain combinations of ingredients.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
So did it take into account I guess the other
ingredients and the recipe and it you know it noted
chocolate whatever?
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. The experiment showed that AI consistently used
positive emotional language like trust, anticipation, and joy, even when
describing brownies that clearly would make humans wretch. But there
you are. It is what it's taught. I suppose. So
the most viewed TikTok in the world has been revealed,
(37:49):
and it's not what you'd expect. Okay, all right, one
clip is a mask astonishing three point six billion views
whoa one point one million likes, making it the most
watched TikTok video ever. The video is ten seconds of
a blank screen that's black. It was shared by a
(38:10):
user June seventh of twenty twenty three and continues to
bring in the views. And there's a link out there someplace.
The creator's a king. I don't know who that is.
Who's Harry Potter inspired TikTok has brought in over two
billion views. Chimed in by saying that I guess maybe
my videos are just too bright. His twenty nineteen clip
was amazing. It was apparently him waltzing around on a broomstick.
(38:32):
So that's one two billion TikTok watches.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Okay, that's a different one.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
It is, So he's number two, I guess, okays the case.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Oh okay, gotcha.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Three point six billion views of a black screen.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
So you're saying this was created by a different.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
User, Yeah, that's somebody else. I don't know their name,
but I'd imagine people have other things to do than
that is that right, you're not looking I don't know,
I'm not on TikTok. Why would you look at a
black screen? Why?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Well, but it's obviously being passed. The thing is, though,
here's here's the deal with TikTok. Right, you're not choosing
to look at something. It's giving you videos. So as
long as it ends up in your algorithm and you
spend all of two seconds of that ten seconds a second,
it's a view. Now it's still getting likes, but it's not.
(39:20):
And then yes, obviously people are sharing it and going
out there and finding it and things like that. But
let's say Sean you know, sends me a TikTok. As
soon as it pops up, that's of you, even though
I wasn't like necessarily choosing you. It's you're just scrolling
through video. So that's just kind of interesting.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
To show that to you, just to say, hey, I
made you look at a black screen for.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I don't know, I have no idea, but what I'm
saying is like you you're yes, yes, exactly, And so
it's somehow this black screen for ten seconds ended up
in the perfect TikTok you know, halfway and just you know,
kept being they.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
Don't get paid for that is that do they get
paid like on the person who created the chick problem?
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Oh, they're not getting paid for how I mean? Like
people do make money on TikTok. I don't know if
that particular video would make money since it's not advertising anything,
but I mean people, that's that's why legit people are
legitimately scared about TikTok going away.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
This is how they make their living.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Like some people, all they do is post TikTok videos
and make money.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Right, Well, I remember them talking about that how they
showed people who had This is what we do when
we're efficient in this. This could be an efficiency for
you as well, or this could be fun for you.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
But I don't know if that particular video makes money.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
That's I know you guys have been wanting this to happen.
Jesus has introduced a new frozen cheese. It's pizza, that's right.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Oh, interest.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Have you seen the commercial weather on the airplane and
the girl is eating a cat that's made out of cheese?
It's no no, yeah, okay bites the tail or breaks
the tail Okay, yeah, I've not seen that the pizza
features a cheese cracker, thin crust, real cheese and it's
ready in eight to ten minutes. Available in Italian four cheese,
Pepperoni and also cheddar Jack Supreme flavors.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Okay, wow, interesting.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
I guess so, but just remember it's a cheese it
on top of that. Just you know, we know you
don't like them, Scott, I love cheese it. I mean
you're talking to you real, so you.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Can just keep you know, they're going all over cheese
it making fun of me and Maddy's favorite snack food.
Speaker 6 (41:32):
Yeah, when they are at least clean to the cheetos, right,
you don't get all that thing.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
They are absolute, they're not coated in like cheese dust.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
I don't feel horribly bad if I eat at no.
I can understand that from that state point. That's that's
for sure. And apparently this movie minecraft made one hundred
and fifty they love it. Wow. All right, we're back
to Borrow Broadbroadcasting Station double gg AW College, Pete and
Bria
WTA all you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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City of Brian officials are reviewing proposals for the future
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operation of Travis Field Stadium. An update was given by
Parks and Recreation Director Brad Stafford.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I think we received four proposals on that. We're still
in the process of evaluating all those and hopefully we'll
have something pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The review of proposals includes future uses for the baseball stadium.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We're actually just looking for somebody to give us a
proposal and some ideas of what can happen in the area.
It may stay the same, it may change, it may
you know, but it will be a baseball facility.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Tomorrow's Brian Council agenda does not include the stadium. Last month,
the council discussed in private the agreement with the current operator,
which expires later this year. The agenda for today's special
meeting of the Ryan ISD School Board includes a proposed
contract to replace the artificial turf at Meryl Green Stadium.
This comes two weeks after a board member brought up
where to find the money for the project. A BASD
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spokesman says the money for the seven hundred thousand dollars
replacement will come from what has not been spent from
bond issues approved in twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen. Artificial
turf was originally installed at the stadium in twenty twelve.
The agenda also brings up a change in administrative leadership.
Assistant Superintendent Kevin Besau confirmed to wt News he is
retiring as the district's chief financial officer and Assistant superintendent
(01:40):
of Business Services. Board members are scheduled to consider beesaw
successor today. Beesaw, who will retire at the end of June,
joined bisD in twenty twelve and is completing his seventh
year in his current position. A Texas Senate committee here's
public testimony about moving the University of Houston at Victoria
to the A and M system of SB twenty three
(02:01):
sixty one include the owner of the largest car dealer
in Texas, Ben Keating, of Victoria, who is dealerships in
Brian and College Station, says this will attract more of
the eighty thousand high school graduates within one hundred miles
of Victoria.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Currently, the typical market share of UHV within one hundred
miles is around one percent. The typical market share of
other universities in the A and M system is around
ten percent. I think that shows the massive opportunity that
we have there if enacted.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
What is described as a friendly and cooperative transfer requires
the systems to approve a memorandum of understanding by June
first that spells out how to complete the transition by
September first. Members of the Texas House had the weekend
to consider proposed amendments to the next state budget. Representative
Paul Dyson O'Brian brought up a new process during his
latest update on our show.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
A Mimitr're going to be due for the budget on
Monday by nine am.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Dyson says.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The idea is for House members have a genuine discussion
about moving the money around in the budget.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We're gonna set it up trying lower a little bit
of the chaos.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Dyson says. The House of Budget amendments will be taken up.
On Thursday, a seventeen year old was arrested by College
Station police for reckless driving in the Northgate district. The
arrest report says Saturday night, thirty minutes after the bars closed,
Javier Maciel drove away while an officer was asking him
about having open containers of alcohol in his truck. Macil
drove in the wrong lane, struck at least one vehicle,
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and threatened pedestrians as he drove away while officers had
drawn their guns. Macil was eventually arrested after officers found
his truck. WTW news time is eight minutes after eight.
It's forty one degrees. News is presented by David's Jewelry
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at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Rebert for sixteen twenty
(03:48):
ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It is a No.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Nine.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
It's the Inflamating Acs on a Monday morning. Next half
after the news, we're gonna have our first county commissioner ever,
I think come into the studio as a sitting Kelly Commissioner,
which will be kind of interesting. Bentley Nettles will be
here to talk about that is one of the new
guys on the on the court. In the meantime, Les's
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Speaker 7 (04:14):
High pressure will bring dry weather to start the week
across south central Texas. It'll be a sunny and breezy
day today with highs in the mid to upper sixties. Tonight,
we'll bring clear skies with temperatures falling to near forty.
The sunshine will continue through the day on Tuesday, with
highs in the mid seventies. There will be another day
of sunshine on Wednesday. It'll be slightly warmer as temperatures
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climb to the low to mid eighties. I'm meteorologist Morgan Bolton, sixteen,
twenty ninety four. Five. Wutaw, Oh, there you go.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
It's it's a chili this morning. If you weren't up early, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Gonna be still chilly even if you're up now.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, that's true. I guess it probably is. We're inside,
we know the sun is shining. Gets a glorious day
out there, and it'll be okay. Later on the day, well,
the Tempts will still have winds out of the north
all day long, but the tempts will get up to
probably sixty five sixty six.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It was interesting on Saturday when I drove to Houston.
I left College Station around lunchtime. It was around noon,
and it was already cold here, like it was sixty degrees.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I physically drove through.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The front like I could because my windows, like I
had just gotten into like the outskirts of Houston, and
my windows even kind of like fogged up for a second.
And then I looked at my the temperature reader like
on my in my car, and I watched it go
from sixty two to eighty two.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh wow, in like five minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And so I got to Houston and it was eighty
two degrees.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
And this was so funny.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, and then and then obviously the front was just
moving slower than my vehicle and so yeah, and then
it came in afterwards.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
It was so bizarre. Okay, that is unusual, it really is. Well, anyway,
it's gonna be nice today, and if you need to
go outside and work in your yard, you can do that.
So yes, you you run off and you leave your
at home her.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I just left her to defend herself.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
In the climate control Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
No, she she stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's yeah, for
the night, which you know, she she loves going over there,
she really does. But every time I leave her, I mean,
I was gone less than twenty four hours and my
mom and every time I come back to pick her up,
my mom always says, yeah, she just she looks so sad,
And I'm like, maybe that's just her face, Like maybe
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she just looks kind of MOPy.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She does, but I think I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
My mom swears that she is just like so depressed,
which makes me feel good, I guess, but it also
makes me feel guilty for leaving her for even like.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
A little bit of time.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
So I also.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Watched, watched physically saw Buddy use his nose as like
a weapon against her. I'm like, no, wonder she doesn't
like being here like he he like pokes her, he
like jabs her with his nose, his long docs and nose.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
He wants her to play like.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's the thing is, he is just like so annoying,
but he just so badly wants some attention and books her.
But I will say, my mom told me this. It
was really sweet. She said, Saturday night, the dogs went
out one last time, so it's like nighttime, it's dark,
and so Buddy comes back in and Mom goes to
the door and she, you know, says Dottie, and Dottie
didn't come and so, you know, and she'll she'll get
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under the bushes and she's sniffing and whatever. And so
she my mom looked at Buddy and goes, well, Buddy,
go get her. And it's like he knew exactly what
she meant. He ran off to the corner of the house,
couldn't find her, runs back to the other side, and
then like all of a sudden, Dottie pops out and
Buddy is.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Coraling her back to the house. And she said, it
was so cute and it was so funny. Yeah, go
get her.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Come on. And so if neither of us are home
and I get home, then Maggie will stand in the
hallway and she hears the car house door come up,
so she figures Mom's home. I opened the door and
she looks and then she turns and walks back into
the you're not Mom, no exactly. Mob comes home and yeah,
she just goes crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Now, if we're both gone for most of the day
and I come in, well then yes, she'll wag her tails. Yeah,
but I'm the guy who takes her for a ride
and a walk and pretty much that she knows. The
rest of the time, she follows Jackie around because good
things happen. Oh yeah, yeah, so there's always that that
happens alright in the meantime. What's uh, so does does Dotty?
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I mean she would Does she play with Buddy at all?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
No, no, she with him? Is that interesting that that
a dog who's had it done because Buddy used to
have a pal, right you Buddy?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, Buddy is an only child. Oh that, and he
acts like one.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
He does not like to share toys.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He he loves to play with toys, and he'll steal
toys if I don't even bring Dottie's over anymore because
they end up just staying there.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, and I don't know. I mean she she.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Likes other dogs, like I take her to the dog
park and there are other dogs that she seems to
get excited. He is just in her face, like twenty
four to seven, And so I think that's why.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
She's just like get away from me. But they get it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But they get along, like they're fine together and you
know they'll run around in the backyard and chase squirrels
together and stuff. But yeah, you know she doesn't she
doesn't like wrestle and want to play and anything like that.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Yeah, okay, Hey, what's to do in the world of Costco.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Man, So people are so obsessed with these Kirkland signature brands.
Yeah that they have, right, they get like we've heard
about the rotistary chicken, right yeah, yeah, and exactly, and
it's very similar. They have good prices, similar to other products.
I've even heard like their Kirkland signature golf clubs and
golf balls are like titleists really, you know so I
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think Taylor Made sued them at one point for likeness.
Oh either way, people get very addicted to their Kirkland
signature stuff and they want it there. The latest to
be discontinued is making people mad. And it is their
Kirkland signature soy milk that people are apparently obsessed with.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I guess just because it's a really good price, yea,
that they have there. So listen to this. They Costco
did say, yes, we have discontinued it for now. It's
possible that it could come back, but just not at
this moment. So on the Costco website, you can get
a twelve pack of thirty two ounce containers. Who eighteen
dollars and forty nine cents. WHOA, that's really cheap. The
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same thing on Amazon is fifty three dollars. Yeah, so
they are still selling it. They still have it, and
they still have it in store. No, no, no, well they're
gonna sell out of it in stores like they do.
This is just yeah, they said, if you Apparently Kirkland
signature stuff is also on Amazon. Oh okay, so it
is the this is the brand. It's the Kirkland brand
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being sold on Amazon. I don't know how that works obviously.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
But yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I mean we're talking a dollar fifty four per carton
versus four fifty per cart Wow. Just lots of people
on it saying no, don't take it. It's so good,
you can't beat the price.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
People are still drinking soy milk. But I guess the.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Editor says the price cannot be beat. I mix it
with my protein shake dailien and devastated. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well, you can still get soy milk.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
It's going to be more. You just have to make
the adjust.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I wonder why they're discontinuing it if it's that popular, and.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
They the Costco comes out and says, yeah, we just aren't.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
It's just a business decision. We aren't selling enough of it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I was going to say, that's indicated people that really
want it well, and you know.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
We talk about that, right, it's like the minority that
can be the loudest at times, and so obviously it's
not that well.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Yeah, right, And that's if there's a negative about Costco,
and there aren't many negatives about it. But if there's
a negative about Costco is that in some areas of
the country they will have a product that they don't
have another places. And so that's why you get. You
hear about something, you get ramped up about it, you
want to go in and they just don't have it. Yeah,
just do not have it now. But as we've talked about,
and if you know they have so few SKUs, the
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Skew numbers, which is a stock keeping unit that numbers
still exists somewhere in their system. Do they take that
out or do they bring it back. But I think
you've answered the question. Really, there aren't enough nationwide. It's
not worth it to distribute the project anymore. So they
just don't do it. And they are from a business
standpoint there again, an interesting company when it comes to that.
So let's see what else we got going on. H Hershey,
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they're a pretty big company. They are a big company,
and they're trying to be healthy.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Now, well really kind of, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So they are acquiring a new brand, I guess you
should say, or a new company that makes healthier snacks.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Now I had never heard.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Of this, but it's called Lesser Evil. So in Hershey, yep,
Hershey is buying Lesser Evil. It is a maker of
organic snacks that prioritize bold flavors with better for you ingredients.
The purchase price was not disclosed, but according to Wall
Street Journal, which first reported the deal, said it was
roughly seven hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
So.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Lesser Evil makes popcorn, puffs, curls, and other snacks using
healthier ingredients. Many of its products are made with coconut
oil or avocado oil. Acquisition furthers Hershey's pushed and do
salty snacks because you know, we think chocolate by adding
another fast growing brand to its portfolio while increasing its
snacking options that it can provide to consumers.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
So you know, again built on its iconic suites including Kisses, Reeses,
and Twizzlers, but in recent years they have aggressively moved
to beyond the signature confections by building a presence in
salty snacks.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Hey, another company did that, and of course today we're
talking about him is Kelloggs. Two years ago, Kelloggs split
up into two companies. They had this new one called
kele Nova. Oh that's right, and they do snacking and
they do international series of noodles in North America, they
do frozen foods, and so they have two companies. So
the Kelloggs that you know, but then they got into
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that snack world too. They needed to do it, but
they decided to do it with a completely different name.
It's a twenty three and seemfo many acts on this
Monday morning. So I tried to watch the pit Okay, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
My tribe means you probably didn't.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I was able to because it was buffering. Oh and
that's not their fault, it's my cable Rice. Okay, I
was like, watch it. So I tried it, and I thought, okay,
well you know whatever. Yeah, yeah, and then I tried
it like four in the afternoon. It buffered then, so
I went, okay, well that's that's my cable provider.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
So yeah, I have to complain to them, Okay, Yeah,
and I will say and what I've I've talked when
I've talked about the pit, it did take me a
couple episodes to get into. I think the cheers we
were talking about earlier, how the whole first season just
took place in the bar. Yeah, the pit, I mean
the entire season takes place in the emergency room.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Reading an article about that, which was really interesting because
they were able to produce that for like one tenth
what it costs to do these other shows because they
have one set and one set that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Actually they built two identical Okay, they could get camera
angles from any place they wanted, nice, which is a
really smart thing.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, because it is.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I mean, obviously it's still a large space, like you've
got different trauma rooms, you've got the whole nurses station
in the middle, like then there's a waiting room, so
you do have that, and then there is like you
do see the ambulance bay where they come in like
outside of the building, So it's not like you're just
in one room the whole time, but it is definitely
just the emergency room department that it takes place in.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
The Other thing they do is they dress grips and
other production people in scrubs.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Oh that's smart, it really is. Yeah, that way they
taught and it can be moved through.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
That right exactly. And so as a result, I mean
they talked about how it is so inexpensive to make
that show interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah, like I said, I really enjoyed. I think it's
fifteen total episodes and the thirteenth just came out last
weekend or last week, so I think there's two more. Yeah,
it's Noah Wilie. There's the emergency room, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Leader.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
They interviewed him and he said it's so good because
we can shoot an episode in like a week. Yeah,
and yeah, others that have to do this it takes
them three months or whatever. So nobody can gain weight
or lose weight or whatever. It's really as and.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And truly there's a little bit of personal drama in
personal life that you see, but it's not like Grey's Anatomy,
where you know, you've got doctors like making out in
the breakroom and like, yeah, so there is there is
personal stuff, but it's more about the medicine. It's more
about the patients. But speaking of medical dramas, there's a
new one on Netflix. It's called Pulse, and it takes
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place in an emergency room in Miami, and it's very good.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
How is it different? How is it different? Show?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
This is more like Grey's Anatomy Like this, like Pulse
is definitely still a little bit more like Grey's Anatomy.
You've got you've got relationships. It actually starts with one
of the doctors has filed a sexual harassment claim against
another doctor, and so you've got the whole like relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But then you've got the actual you know, and and the.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
First episode starts with a hurricane at Miami and so
you've got you know, the natural disaster situation going on.
But I again, I love medical dramas. It's my cup
of tea. If you like them, I definitely would check
out Pulse on Netflix.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
WTAW news time is eight thirty one, it's forty four degrees.
Good morning, I'm Chelsea reberb The City of Brian has
four proposals for the future operation of Travis Field Stadium.
An update from Parks and Recreation Director Brad Stafford included
the first review of who will manage operations since two
thousand and six.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Whenever contracts start to time out, well then you've got
to go back to the drawing board and at least
you know, see what's out there. Things change over the years.
You know, Brin's changed a lot in the last twenty years,
and so you know, you want to just make sure
that we're doing the very best we can for our citizens.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Stafford said parks, including the stadium, are part of the
city's quality of life.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We want to make sure that there's something enjoyable for
people to do. You know, they have the bombers today
and you know, maybe the bombers for years to come,
and I think that's always great for us to have
that opportunity for our citizens and the surrounding communities to
be able to come in enjoy some time in Brian,
spend a little money.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Last month, the Brian Council discussed in private the agreement
with the current operator, which expires later this year. Tomorrow's
council agenda does not include the stadium. A Brian man
tells police where to find a man who took a
weed eater and a jigsaw out of a storage shed
that led to the suspect's fortieth trip to the Brass
County jail. Forty five year old Ernest Warren the Third
was charged with theft innovating arrest with prior convictions for
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what happened last Thursday. A Brian woman was booked at
the Brazos County Jail for the sixtieth time last Thursday.
Fifty four year old Elizabeth Morrow is charged with stealing
a wallet that the victim left behind at a convenience
store last October. The arrest report says a BPD detective
received information from a private investigator who was hired by
the victim. Online record Showmorrow's jail record dates back to
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nineteen eighty nine. A College Station man was arrested by
Texas A and M Police after a bset list was
struck by a hit and run driver. The bicyclist who
was hit by a pickup the morning of March twenty
six that John cambro and Penberthy was taken by friends
to the hospital for a treatment of non life threatening injuries.
UPD officers use video from campus cameras to identify the truck.
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The driver, twenty two year old John Casper of College Station,
is out of jail after posting bond following his arrest
for leaving the scene of a collision involving an injury.
What may become the twelfth university in the Texas A
and M system gets a public hearing and a State
Senate committee. The author of SB twenty three sixty one,
Lowis cole course to Brinham, says she first learned of
the idea of moving the University of Houston Victoria into
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the A and M system ten years ago.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
I want to compliment Texas A and M for going
and doing their due diligence. They've challenged the community, they've
challenged me, and we're going to continue to work to
make this an outstanding university for the region.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Victoria Mayor Dwayne Crocker brought up the importance of having
A and m's agriculture, engineering, and health programs.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Are critical for economic growth not only Victoria our region,
but also for the state of Texas.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
They will help support existing industry and also help bring
in new industry.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
If enacted, the two systems have until June first to
adopt a memorandum of understanding that spells out how the
transfer will be completed by September first. This Thursday, the
Texas House takes up the next state budget. Representati Paul
Dyson of Brian's as proposed budget amendments have to be
filed by this morning at nine.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
You have that put in take rules, So, in other words,
if you're going to put money somewhere, you got to
show where you're taking it away from.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Dyson says a special procedure has been set up to
consider amendments.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
That way people can have a genuine discussion about what
money needs to be moved.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Around in the budget.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Dyson says the intention is to lower some of the chaos.
A special meeting of the Brian ISD School Board today
could include a change in administrative leadership. BID's Assistant Superintendent
of Business Services and chief financial Officer confirms he is
retiring at the end of June. Kevin Beesaw has been
in his current position for seven years and with bisD
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since twenty twelve. The board could select his successor today.
The board is also being asked to award a seven
hundred thousand dollars contract to replace the artificial turf at
Meryll Green Stadium. This comes two weeks after a member
of the board's finance committee said they were looking for
donors to help pay for the replacement and possibly stadium lights.
A bisD spokesman says funding will come from what has
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not been spent from bond issues that were approved in
twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen. Wtw news time is eight
thirty five. It's forty four degrees. You can always find
more news at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen,
twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
It's the it for MANYX on a Monday morning. And
Bitley Nettles, the county Commissioner for Precinct one joint US.
Thanks for being here this morning, Commissioner.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Thanks for having me. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
So you've been on the job. Let's see how long now?
Speaker 9 (21:51):
I think this is my tenth week.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Okay, ten ten weeks. So we were discussing off the air.
In course, the whole situation the Commissioner's Court is something
that a lot of people don't necessarily understand. I think
Bill Oliver does a good job of getting some of
the news out there that comes from the Court, but
it appears that the Court's you guys are going to
get out there. Now, guys in gal are going to
get out there and try to talk to your constituency.
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Tell us about that.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
I think it's really important to have community engagement. Judge
Kenny Elliott and the Constable Jeff Reeves and I decided
that we wanted to have a forum by which we
could talk to our residents, a precinct one, and so
we're going to try this. First one will be Wednesday
from five to eight at JP one there off of
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William B. Fitch. So the idea is to talk about
some county initiatives. We're going to have Sheriff Wayne Dickey
there talking about some of his programs that he's rolling out.
Also going to have Jason Ware, our emergency management coordinator,
and just have the opportunity for people to come and
ask us questions in a less formal environment so that
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we can figure out what's import well.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
And because people don't necessarily understand, I mean, I'm sure
you probably get calls that, hey, somebody didn't pick my
trash up today, something really has nothing to do with
what a county commissioner does, and so being able to
know the different situations and your responsibilities has a lot
to do with it.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Absolutely. You know, we get all kinds of calls, and
matter of fact, I set up on my website a
way for people to email me or give me their
issues so that it comes in and I can maybe
try to get the right county person to answer their questions,
because there's obviously a whole lot about the county that
I still don't know yet. Sure.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Well, the other thing that I think people are starting
to also recognize is there are more and more places
where the cities and the county now have to join
forces to do things. They've done things financially before, but
if their roads or connections have to happen that are
in the extra territorial jurisdiction, then that gets into the
county and there are different guidelines there.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Absolutely, And one of the challenges I see going forward
for the county is the growth projections that we will
have seventy five thousand more people outside the city limits. Now,
how do we deliver services to those folks? Because that's
the responsibility of the county government in.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Part so I know that the meeting that the court
had had to do with well, a Doge type situation
that clearly is a word that resonates with a lot
of people to understand what it is. And I spoke
to the judge about that last week, and a Doge
type deal where we're doing budget cutting is a difficult
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thing to do in a body like the county.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Your thoughts well, and my thought is the five of
us are the doughs. I mean, we are the budgetary
authority for the county, but we can certainly we have
a lot of smart, talented people in this community. We
could certainly use them to come together and try to
identify I call it Brezes County twenty fifty, how did
we deliver services for the county fifteen years from now?
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Because I believe the expectation is going to be very different.
We need to be online, We need to be servicing
people online if possible, and then creating Yeah, I hate
to steal the term, but world class excellence for our
county services.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Baily Nettles joined us the's county commissioner for PRESOUK. One
one of the other things that's interesting is because this
is such a foreign situation to the regular citizen. How
big a committee could you actually have and what would
you think would be an ideal number to have in
that committee to be efficient?
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Well, so I ran. The judge tapped me to do
the Veteran's Treatment Court, and we had twelve ten or
twelve people on there, and it was like herding cats.
I think smaller is better. If you could get five
they can obviously get advisory from anybody in the county,
but five people is probably the right number in order
to be effective. I mean, if we're going to have
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people volunteering their time and talents, we certainly want them
to be able to come to the county with some
strong recomondations for us to consider. It still has to
be voted on by the county commissioners because one of
the things have become obvious to me watching the.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
County Commissioner's Court.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
We approve every time the county buys a paper clip,
everything comes before the County Commissioner's Court.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
And that's spending a lot of time on some things
that probably could be handled into different ways. Is that
what we're saying here?
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Well, but it's statutorally required so we don't have a choice.
It's really interesting to me. Learning about the county has
been a bit of a challenge, but I do think
there's some opportunities to improve.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Why do you think it's designed that way? As far
as you're concerned by the legislature, you know, I.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
Really don't know. I suspect the legislature wants to Obviously,
we're a representative of the first representative of the state,
so they want to tell us what to do. And
I get that. You know, you're always your higher headquarters
doesn't know what they're doing. Only you do because you're
seeing the ground on the ground, what's happening. So I
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appreciate that, but I do think they really need to
think about when they ask us to do things, how
much it costs. Are they going to provide the funding
or do we have to go get it from our constituents.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
So speak to me about this. Folks may not know
you're a retired brigadier general, so you pretty much would
say something and that's the way it would be. Likewise,
you ran the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, same thing. I said,
a policy, we put that in place. That's a little
bit different here so talk about that well.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
I think that's a simplification of both of those command
control relationships I had, because obviously, in order to get
anything done, you have to have voluntary buy in. There's
only so much people will do, and you don't want
to be in a position where you have to constantly
watch them to do what you're wanting them to do.
So getting people buy in in that direction is very
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important and nothing different in this You have influence. By
the end of the day, I'm one of five votes, right, So,
but we've had some friction with me and the staff
and they're learning and I'm learning. And the idea is
I need the information to make the decisions. I haven't
been there four years. So if you're going to bring
something to the Commission's Court for me to vote on,
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you better provide me the information or I'm not voting
on it or not voting favorably for it.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
So well, we see more workshop sessions in this court,
because workshop has really on the Cali level not been
something that we've seen very often.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
I know the judge seems to be moving in that direction.
I think that's a positive thing. Because the Texas Open
Meetings Act TOMA requires us to have a open form
anytime we try to do government business, which is appropriate
and I support that, but it really sometimes very frustrating
because there could be three of us will suddenly come
together in the hallway and staff's going, wait, you can't
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have three of their and we're just having coffee and
ask them how their day was. So it's a little
frustrating at times.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Sure, one are the phrases that I saw you quoted
in the newspaper key performance indicators. That's what you're looking for.
Define for us in your view, what is a key
performance indicator?
Speaker 9 (29:07):
So the very first key performance indicator would be how
are your customers like the service you're providing? Are your
constituents the people you're serving. If you don't have a
mechanism providing that kind of feedback, how do you know
how you're doing? And that's one of the challenges I
see as I have started my evaluation of the different departments.
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There are fifty departments. Almost twenty five of them are
elected officials, and all have been very gracious and met
with me, and I understand they have their own election
political issues, but I just want to know if you're
going to come to the County Court and ask for money.
Where's your indicators that you're doing a good job in
order for I should give you more money or less money.
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And that's a big challenge, and I think that's a
cultural shift that maybe we need to make at the county.
Some of the departments I believe are moving in that direction,
but we need all of them.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
You know.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
Just the reason we're having this town hall, I want
to hear from the residents of Precinct one what's important
to them, because if I don't know if I and
I'm grateful for the optunity to represent them, but I
don't want to be guessing at what's important to them.
I know what's important to me, and that's greens Perry
Road in front of Woodlake that we don't seem to
be able to get fixed. But we're working on some
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of those challenges.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Anything else this morning.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
I hope everybody comes out. It's going to be a
great opptinity to talk to your county officials, and if
this one goes well, hopefully will try to do it
again a little bit later in the summer.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Okay, remind us again win and where it's.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Going to be This Wednesday, five to eight at Justice
the Priest Justice Precinct one off of William Jeff William Defense.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Okay, bet metals the Conto Commissioner, Precinct one.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
Thanks for the time this.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Morning, sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAWC Info maniac
about twelve minutes untill. I'm the man in the state
of New York. His name is Jerome du Wald tried
to have an a I lawyer defend him in a
court of law. Okay, the judge was not pleased. Hello,
(31:16):
the judge was not pleased. I okay, it's just not playing.
Now we're going to have to try to download it.
Oh and now it's just frozen.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Okay, okay, Well all right, ma, you save that story
for tomorrow or I'll just started submitted a video.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
We will hear that video now.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
May it please the court?
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I come from here today a humble proceeds panel of
All right, I've distinguished to stop it. Just stop it.
We'll download it and we'll listen to it without see
it's I'm in a world of buffering. I don't know
my cable company's doing that to me, and now this
machine is doing it. Maybe it's me. I don't know. Okay,
all right, well we'll try to download that. In the meantime.
(31:57):
Today is National Beer Day. If you are a beer drinker,
you can celebrate by picking up a really expensive four
pack of double I p A's or something cheaper. Whatever
you happen to like the state with the cheapest beer.
Any idea with the the states with the state with
(32:18):
the cheapest beer would be.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I'm gonna guess Colorado, okay, or no, no, I'm gonna
take that back.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
I'm gonna go Oklahoma, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
I don't know why I'm thinking, like Mississippi, it's Illinois.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Oh okay, it's Illinois. I wonder why, you know, what.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Does it say?
Speaker 6 (32:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I guess Oklahoma because didn't Oklahoma. I don't know if
this is still the case. But beer sold there or
made there or whatever is it has less alcohol and
near beer. Yeah, because they have like laws in place
that the ABV is lower.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So I assumed maybe it would be cheaper.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yeah, that would that would make sense.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
That's where my thought process was. Maybe Illinois could be
the same way.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
I don't know, the state with the cheapest case of beer.
So that's what they did. Chwenty four packs. Okay, sixteen
dollars and fifty cents, Yeah, which is pretty good. Yea,
that is Texas. I pulled the map up, but my
computer is freezing right now. Oh, I can do that
was about twenty one dollars, which I guess there are
a whole bunch of people. We haven't even talked about
chili Fest. We'll do that in a minute. But so,
(33:22):
South Carolina was second cheapest, followed by New York State,
which amazes me because I would think they would have
so many taxes that would go along with it that
you would have to I guess more than that. But
then Kansas is also in expenses, so is Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, Connecticut, Virginia.
All of those are some of the cheaper. The most expensive, duh,
would be California, Alaska, Alaska. Yeah, because you know they
(33:46):
don't make beer in Alaska. Ended up there. I think
they probably don't anyway. The yeah they said, Alaska is
thirty three dollars and sixty cents for a twelve, twenty
four for twenty four. Yeah, Hawaii, what about Hawaii? Hawaii
is twenty four dollars ten dollars lest Yeah, it is
(34:07):
but textas twenty the map came up. Now twenty one
dollars and seventy cents. What that is? Florida party eighteen dollars? Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
That's yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Somebody did text in and said, Oklahoma is not like
that anymore so, right, that's what they said. I'm not
sure one of our texters okay.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
They would know. All right, So there you go. That's
a national beard again in August is international beard if
you want to celebrate even more so. A company is
selling a stuffed animal called Dino okay, which will snitch
on all the things that your kid tells it in confidence.
Oh no, that come on. It has a built in
AI chat bot that records your child's every word. Oh wow,
(34:50):
I don't know. I mean that's weird. Well, you want
them to be able to talk to it. You want
them I get get to talk back to them from
That's what.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It's interesting though, like a stuffed animal, I mean, like
you're talking about little kids, you know. It's I could
see people want to monitor, like wanting to monitor their
middle schoolers and their high schoolers, you know, and try
to make sure that they're not I don't know, having issues,
but yeah, like your your four.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Year old right.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Cute?
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Anyway, so you got that? Okay, all right, I rebooted
my computer. I got that taken care of. Let's go
back to the guy who you decided to use the
AI chat bot as his attorney in court.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
The appellant has submitted a video. We will hear that video.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Now, may it please the court?
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I come here today a humble proceedings for a panel
of five distinguished justices?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Is this hold on?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Is that counsel for the case.
Speaker 10 (35:42):
I generated that that is not a real person. You
did not tell me that, sir, and you have appeared
before this court and been able to testify verbally. You
are not going to use this court room as a
launch for your business. So if you are able to
shut that off, you have five minutes.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, she's not happy.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
No, it was not.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Now I could see a world where this is the future.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Oh yeah, I don't doubt that. You know, the chat
bot could write the brief in Texas in fact, yeah,
but to actually have a in court, yeah, at least
that's what's happened in that about five minutes, Chelsea inform
any Access still going to get down to forty tonight,
just so you know, in case you didn't get enough
cool weather, you'll have one more opportunity. Things that chatbots
(36:29):
cannot do very well. A food scientist from the University
of Illinois conducted an experiment to see if chat GPT
could evaluate food products, specifically chocolate brownies. The results were
not good. The AI enthusiastically gave high scores to all
fifteen brownie recipes tested, including one with disgusting ingredients like
(36:55):
a worm meal and fish oil. Okay, yes, and how,
which obviously humans would not like.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Right.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
This revealed a fundamental flaw in AI's ability to evaluate food.
Chat GPT lacks the cultural understanding at this time and
the biological aversion that humans have towards certain combinations of ingredients.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
So did it take into account I guess the other
ingredients and the recipe and it you know it noted
chocolate whatever?
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. The experiment showed that AI consistently used
positive emotional language like trust, anticipation, and joy, even when
describing brownies that clearly would make humans wretch. But there
you are. It is what it's taught. I suppose. So
the most viewed TikTok in the world has been revealed,
(37:49):
and it's not what you'd expect. Okay, all right, one
clip is a mask astonishing three point six billion views
whoa one point one million likes, making it the most
watched TikTok video ever. The video is ten seconds of
a blank screen that's black. It was shared by a
(38:10):
user June seventh of twenty twenty three and continues to
bring in the views. And there's a link out there someplace.
The creator's a king. I don't know who that is.
Who's Harry Potter inspired TikTok has brought in over two
billion views. Chimed in by saying that I guess maybe
my videos are just too bright. His twenty nineteen clip
was amazing. It was apparently him waltzing around on a broomstick.
(38:32):
So that's one two billion TikTok watches.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Okay, that's a different one.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
It is, So he's number two, I guess, okays the case.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Oh okay, gotcha.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Three point six billion views of a black screen.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
So you're saying this was created by a different.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
User, Yeah, that's somebody else. I don't know their name,
but I'd imagine people have other things to do than
that is that right, you're not looking I don't know,
I'm not on TikTok. Why would you look at a
black screen? Why?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Well, but it's obviously being passed. The thing is, though,
here's here's the deal with TikTok. Right, you're not choosing
to look at something. It's giving you videos. So as
long as it ends up in your algorithm and you
spend all of two seconds of that ten seconds a second,
it's a view. Now it's still getting likes, but it's not.
(39:20):
And then yes, obviously people are sharing it and going
out there and finding it and things like that. But
let's say Sean you know, sends me a TikTok. As
soon as it pops up, that's of you, even though
I wasn't like necessarily choosing you. It's you're just scrolling
through video. So that's just kind of interesting.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
To show that to you, just to say, hey, I
made you look at a black screen for.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I don't know, I have no idea, but what I'm
saying is like you you're yes, yes, exactly, And so
it's somehow this black screen for ten seconds ended up
in the perfect TikTok you know, halfway and just you know,
kept being they.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
Don't get paid for that is that do they get
paid like on the person who created the chick problem?
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Oh, they're not getting paid for how I mean? Like
people do make money on TikTok. I don't know if
that particular video would make money since it's not advertising anything,
but I mean people, that's that's why legit people are
legitimately scared about TikTok going away.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
This is how they make their living.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Like some people, all they do is post TikTok videos
and make money.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Right, Well, I remember them talking about that how they
showed people who had This is what we do when
we're efficient in this. This could be an efficiency for
you as well, or this could be fun for you.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
But I don't know if that particular video makes money.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
That's I know you guys have been wanting this to happen.
Jesus has introduced a new frozen cheese. It's pizza, that's right.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Oh, interest.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Have you seen the commercial weather on the airplane and
the girl is eating a cat that's made out of cheese?
It's no no, yeah, okay bites the tail or breaks
the tail Okay, yeah, I've not seen that the pizza
features a cheese cracker, thin crust, real cheese and it's
ready in eight to ten minutes. Available in Italian four cheese,
Pepperoni and also cheddar Jack Supreme flavors.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Okay, wow, interesting.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
I guess so, but just remember it's a cheese it
on top of that. Just you know, we know you
don't like them, Scott, I love cheese it. I mean
you're talking to you real, so you.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Can just keep you know, they're going all over cheese
it making fun of me and Maddy's favorite snack food.
Speaker 6 (41:32):
Yeah, when they are at least clean to the cheetos, right,
you don't get all that thing.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
They are absolute, they're not coated in like cheese dust.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
I don't feel horribly bad if I eat at no.
I can understand that from that state point. That's that's
for sure. And apparently this movie minecraft made one hundred
and fifty they love it. Wow. All right, we're back
to Borrow Broadbroadcasting Station double gg AW College, Pete and
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