October 3, 2025 • 39 mins
Sing along. Spilled beer. October is National Popcorn Month. Pumpkin concierges. BTHO mississippi state. Pregnancy myths.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
WTAW news time is three minutes after seven. It is
sixty seven degrees. Good morning, I'm Chelsea Reebert. One person
was killed and another is hospitalized in critical condition following
a three vehicle collision yesterday. This took place on Highway
thirty near Hardy Whedon Road. The preliminary investigation from Brian
Belize says the person who was killed was driving a
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pickup that rear ended one suv, then went into oncoming
traffic and was hit by a second suv. Brian Belize
continues to look for those responsible for shooting a Brenna
man to death earlier this week. According to a BPD update,
investigators have identified three individuals who were involved in a
physical altercation Monday morning. The news release says that escalated
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into gunfire outside homes south of the west Side Walmart
store on Jaguar Drive. Brazos County Commissioner Chuck conder La
tells listeners on our show that he's excited to see
acting County Judge Kyle Cassell running for the permanent position
in next year's election.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Probably one of the worst things you can say in
his presence is this is the way we've always done it,
that would you know it's rare to see Kyle Scale,
but he's sure scowls at that.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Another county judge candidate in next year's election, former Bryan
City Councilman Mike Sutherland, started advertising before Daine Peters announced
that he's retiring next year. College Station could be getting
another baseball field complex.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And next Thursday's College Station City Council meeting, an unidentified
company will make a pitch for using city on land
behind the Costco store. What's nicknamed the Southern Roots Baseball
Complex includes a thirty eight hundred seat stadium and eight
additional altur fields. The unidentified company proposing the fifty five
to sixty million dollar complex is asking the city for
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fifteen to twenty million and to donate or lease eighty
acres of land Bill Oliver sixteen to twenty ninety four
to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The College Station City Council is introduced to this year's
representative from Texas A and M's Student Government Association, Ansley Broadwell,
class of is SGA's vice president for municipal Affairs. Speaking
at the council's last regular meeting, Broadwell said one of
her goals is community engagement.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I was on big events, staff going out serving the community,
and I want to make that a bigger opportunity for students,
get them more involved beyond just one day.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Of the year. Another goal is the future development of
the Northgate district.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Figuring out how we can work on making that more
of a permanent area and how we can figure out
the land development issues as well. So we will also
be coming up with the land Development Plan to help
students and the city find a solution to that.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Broadwell also said many students are not happy with all
the high rise housing in the Northgate district. Governor Abbott
will be among those on the Texas A and M
campus this morning who are participating in the ceremonial groundbreaking
of the Appland Center. The two hundred and fifty million
dollar complex includes a fifty million dollar gift that was
made more than three years ago by Bucky's Store founder
Arch Applin. Construction is scheduled for completion in February of
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twenty twenty eight. A large building on the north side
of downtown Brian has been rent of, and today, on
the twentieth anniversary of First Friday, is the opening of
what was the Kimball Feed Store and is now a
cultural and event center.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
The cultural event center is really meant to be a
showcase space for the community or arts and culture or events.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Cassidy Barton, who owns the building with Christy Petty, says
parts of the century old building have been repurposed.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
We hope that people who have been too, that went
to the kimblefeed Store might still walk in and feel
like a sense of recognition because you'll see clay block walls,
You'll see some concrete floors, lots of monts of wood.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Located on North Maine at Pruit, The Kimball's grand opening
event starts this evening at six WTAW News time is
six minutes after seven. It's sixty seven degrees. More news
at seven thirty, or you can always go to our
website WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty eight,
ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah, it's a Friday, but you probably already know that's
seven or nine. You may know that too, might know
the weather, but we're going to tell it to you anyway.
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be okay. Low temperatures will probably be in the upper
sixties and no mentioned to rain in the forecast. We
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got sixty seven right now.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
It was A and M and the Longhorns on the
pitch last night out at ellis Field. We'll talk about
that and more coming up in sports.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
There you go. So we did. What was the song
that we sang? Oh, the Reading Rainbow. Chelse sang Reading Rainbows.
Every word, do every word? And you know, it's really
cool because songs teach us things in song ilicit memories,
and there are certain songs that almost everybody knows, but
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a lot of cases it ends up being the situation
as to how old you are whether or not you
know these songs. And back in the day, oldies radio
used to be very, very popular for the reason that
you could sing along with those songs. And now again
because you can curate your own list. You can have
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a list of songs where you know every word to
every one of the songs.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Oh yeah, you're singing along the whole time.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Sure, part of that might be the reason that you've
got them together. But so you gov, who has nothing
else to do other than the survey people about a
whole lot of unusual songs. They took songs and they
broke down by age group eighteen to twenty nine, thirty
to forty four, forty six, rather forty five to sixty four,
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and then sixty five plus. Had said do you know
these songs?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Now?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
So I gave Chelsea and Will these these songs and
I don't know, there's like thirty songs.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Here, twenty twenty seven or okay, twenty four on the list.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
All right, So so each of you, because you guys
follow if you fall in different age group than I do,
and so band different from one another, right exactly? So
Chelsea on that list, what was the first song on
the list where a lot of people knew the words
to it and you didn't?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, uh, probably, I mean, I guess I you know
Hotel California.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Okay, Hotel California.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
I know these songs? Do I know every single word?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
No?
Speaker 8 (06:14):
But you can.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
And that's the thing. Singing along? They say, can you
sing along with this?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Song.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Well, there's a hook in almost everything.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right, so maybe like a part of the song, but
you know, they are very I'm also not like somebody
who just sits around and like memorizes songs and so,
but I will tell you the one that I know
every single word to and remember actually listening to the
CD and rewinding or you know, skipping back just so
I could listen to and memorize. The song that neither
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one of you probably do is all Star by smash Mouth.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Oh yeah, no, you're right.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I can sing along to that entire song.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I do know the song simply because it was on
the radio when I was on a music station and
I played it six hundred and forty seven times today.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
All right, that would yeah, all right, So will what
about you?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
The only song? And again, singing along is different than
knowing every lyric verbatim. Yeah, but there's one that I
completely blank on and could not sing along, and that
is the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Well, I didn't have that one either, And a percentage wise,
where was that in your ape? Because that's the thing,
because you were in radio, you were in.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Amusing my age group seventeen percent.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Yeah, Well, number one. So the as far as I'm concerned,
I don't know Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen at all. Really, yeah,
and in my age group, that's seventeen percent would know that. Yeah,
it just I mean, I know what the song is, sure,
but I wasn't interested enough to even learn any of it.
Didn't see the movie, So I don't know. Number one
on the list doesn't matter what the age group was.
It was Happy Birthday, which perfectly makes sense. Sure, Number
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two it was is rather interesting. Was jingle bell yep? Okay,
so we got Happy Birthday and jingle bells. Then comes
the national anthem. Right now, it says here, it says
here that thirty six percent of eighteen to twenty nine
year olds know the national anthem. I think that's high.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Oh okay, I don't know the high school football games.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Well, and now they put the words on the jumbo tron.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So I actually think, you know, younger people who have
gotten used to that might even know the words more
accurately than people my age.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Oh yeah, that's so those three, all those three songs
are in eighty percent. And like in the old folks, okay,
all the old people know that. Next was Amazing Grace,
which is an interesting song that I don't hear nearly
as much as I used to. Right, A lot of
people here are just as bagpipes at a funeral part.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Right, right. And then if you don't go to church
on a regular basis, you really may not know it.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
And then on the list, number five on the list
is truly amazing to me that it is so high
overall it came in at forty two percent. It is
take Me out to the Ballgame. Yeah, yep, okay, you
could do take me out to the ballgame, and that's it. Okay,
can you go on from there?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
I means and peanuts in crack or Jack's Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I think it's amazing. I think the first five songs
on that list to tell us so much positive about
our country. Yeah, I mean it's Happy Birthday, it's jingle bells,
it's our national anthem, it's Amazing Grace, and it's take
Me out to the ball game. I think that that
says something positive.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Well, I know I would agree. I would agree that
that's something that makes you makes you feel good. Was
there a song on here that was very high for
your age group that you found surprising.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Will let's see high for my age group that I
found surprising, I would have to say, no, okay, not
one on that.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I will tell you the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song you
mentioned it earlier. That's forty percent for my age group.
That feels a little high to me. I mean, I
guess I kinda watched SpongeBob a little bit, but and
I definitely know the song, like I know what they're
talking about, but I don't think I could sing.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Along with it. Yeah, so, and of course I couldn't.
And I looked at four percent people in my age.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Hotel California is also a little bit high, thirty seven
percent for my age group. And again that's not one
I don't I don't think I could sing along the
whole time.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
We'll just run the list for you so you'll know,
like we'll do I'll do the first ten, Will you
do the next ten?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Can you do the red?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
So it's Happy Birthday, jingle Bells, star Spangled Banner, Amazing Grace,
Take Me Out to the Ball Game Somewhere over the
Rainbow by Judy Garling from the Wizard of Us, which
by the way, was almost taken out of the movie.
I just happened to read that yesterday, almost taken out
of the movie. Then comes Hotel California by the Eagles,
and an America.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Beautiful Well somewhere over the Rainbow has been sung by
so many other people. So Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen Let
It Be by the Beatles, back to back Beatles, Hey
Jude by the Beatles, Don't Stop Believing by Journey.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's such a go to Carrige every single Yeah, that's
why people know that one.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Yeah, it was his birthday yesterday. American Pie by Don McClain.
Oh yeah, sure, Piano Man by Billy Joel.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
M Yeah, yeah, the SpongeBob square Pants theme song that
was on there as well, Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond.
Well no bump bump bump, Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
You know that part Baby Shark, Oh my yeah, let
it go from Frozen.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Yeah, okay, this one I definitely could sing along to you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I Want It that Way by Backstreet Boys, The Fresh
Prince of bel Air by Will Smith, and obviously if
you watched the show, that was the theme song. Yeah,
so a lot of people knew it because of that.
Joe Lene by Dolly parton All Star by smash Mouth
and then take on Me by Aha.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
I happen to know every board of that phone you yeah, okay, yeah,
And I say it's six percent from my age group.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
But yeah, So there you go, the song that you
could sing along with eighteen minutes after seven o'clock with
the Info Maniacs. In a very very sad story that
happened on Tuesday morning. Guys. It was a multi vehicle
crash in California. It involved two big rigs just before
three am in the morning on the highway. It caused
one of the trailers to rip open. It spilled Coors Light,
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beer cans and kegs across multiple lengths of track, perfect
and I mean an absolute ton of them, right, And
there was there was you know, masks, you know, chaos
as beers going everywhere, which this sort of thing happens
every so often, but usually, and this was a big one.
Usually it's in a smaller magnitude. But decades ago, and
we're talking over forty years ago. I recall this happening
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here in College station, and I remember it from watching
Walter Cronkite talk about it on the nightly news. I
mean it was a national story. It occurred as let's
see here in October thirtieth, nineteen eighty two, a train
derailment just adjacent to the and M campus spilled more
than one hundred thousand cans of beer and kegs onto
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the highway. And this occurred apparently at the intersection of
what they called Highway sixty back then, University Drive and
Welburn Road.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
That was before they had the under it, before they
had the underpap was I guess clearly before they had
the underpass.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Okay, so it was. They were part of a ninety
nine car train that came barreling through at ten miles
an hour. There's no cause for the derailment, but I
remember them showing trucks full of aggies full of driving
away from the site. There was four thousand, six hundred
cans of beer. There were also fifteen other box cars
on the train that were carrying beer. Two hundred thousand
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dollars worth of damage at that time done to the
roadbed and heavy equipment had to be brought in from
Houston to lift the box car that was hanging off.
I guess the overpass was there because it was said
it was hanging off the overpass. So that is an
absolute ton of beer. But I can never get that
picture out of my head. I was in junior high
at the time right there on what was George Bush
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Drive Jersey or what was George Bush?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Now?
Speaker 7 (13:33):
I had forgotten about what was George Bush George Bush Drive, Jersey.
That's right, it was the part of the cow Streets.
I remember that vividly, talking about that in school the
next day, that there was so much beer and these
helpful aggies were out there taking care of it.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
That was nineteen eighty two. I didn't have to live
here now that I was living in Beaumont at that time.
So like kegs in the back of pickup truck, just.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Cases of beer and loose beer cans that had scattered everywhere.
I remember the video film at that point in time vividly.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Nothing like making the national news for all the right reason. Right,
good morning, it's the infomdiacs. It's a seven to twenty three. Again,
it's mid autumn today, and I guess that's probably right.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, because if your fall really starts September one, yeah,
I mean we are and then ends, you know, Thanksgiving,
we're mid fall.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Got them all right. So anyway, so it's the US
the third day of October and October's National popcorn months.
So yeah, though popcorn probably originated in Mexico, it was
grown in China, Sumatra, and India before Columbus ever visited America.
So the Mexicans could have had you know, they could
have been chopping on popcorn and we didn't know about it.
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So this is one of the things that I guess
Columbus gets a little bit of credit for. Indiana and
Nebraska are among the top popcorn producing states in US America,
and Americans consume seventeen billion quarts of popcorn annually.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Now why do we eat popcorn and movie theaters? Well,
one possible reason. During the depression, popcorn was cheap five
or ten cents a bag. It was one of the
few luxuries that most families could afford. In fact, an
Oklahoma banker who went broke when his bank failed bought
a popcorn machine, started a business in a small store
near a theater, and after a couple of years his
popcorn business was a poppin' Okay. During World War Two,
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sugar of course was sent overseas rationing here in the
United States. That meant there wasn't much sugar available to
make candy. So thanks to this unusual situation, Americans eight
three times as much popcorn as usual.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
It went into a slump in the nineteen fifties when
television became popular. Movie theater's attendance dropped, sure, and that
with that, the popcorn consumption dropped. When the public began
eating popcorn at home, the new relationship between TV and
popcorn led to a resurgence in its popularity.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Popcorn has been found in fifty six hundred year old
caves in New Mexico. Yeah, and it was central to
ancient rituals by Aztec Incas, who used popped kernels in
jewelry and ceremonial headdresses cost popcorn.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Really, Yeah, that's what it says.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Native Americans introduced popcorn to English colonists at the first Thanksgiving,
with the wamp and Ogg bringing.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
A bag of popcorn as a gift.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And then finally, a Chicago inventor, Charles Creeters, developed the
world's first mobile popcorn machine in eighteen ninety three. This,
of course, revolutionized popcorn sales at fairs and theaters.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Man, so now you mentioned the popcorn in jewelry. Did
you guys ever do popcorn and Cranberry's necklace at school?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
I didn't do it with cran school popcorn carlands for
the trees, right.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Got that sure you could do that. Now that's the
other thing. So because of our age differences, popcorn when
we were a kid may have been completely different. So
now will well, how do you first remember popcorn jilly
jiffy pop on the ground mother's stove? Okay, okay, did
you do jiffy pop?
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Chelsea?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Maybe like once or twice, like a friend's house or something,
So I know what it is, and you know, I've
seen it on the stove, but I was were we
were definitely like an Orville Redenbacker microwave situation at my house.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
That checks out, And yeah, that's the thing. And you know,
if you're old school, you remember there used to be
a popcorn popping pan that had a little stir in it,
had a little sturred that you could turn that had
a crank that you had a crank on the top
and the little stir would stir the popcorn in the
oil in the bottom of the pan, and then you
pop it in this designated pan.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
And now you can just buy it by the bag.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
And then well, and we were discussing earlier this week,
one of those hacks just takes a popcorn, throw it
into a little paper sack, put the seasoning in there,
and stick in the microwave. You don't have to have
the sealed one if you don't want to.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
But it tastes so good it does.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
That's exactly right. And then of course you can just
buy it now in all sorts of flavors.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Yeah, I don't like buying post popped popcorn.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Some of it's okay, Yeah, some of it's okay, carramle corn.
I love kettle corn.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Kettle corn too, all fresh kettle corn at the ballpark.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Do you guys remember popabilities?
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Yes? Remember that?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Huh yeah? I mean that was that stuff was very
interesting because they'd pop all those exotic flavors and you
could do that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But one of my favorite garrets in Chicago, and they
do what they call the Chicago Mix.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
And I know it sounds a little wild, but it's.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Caramel corn and their cheddar cheese corn mixed together.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
That works.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It is amazing. If you're even if you're have a
layover in O'Hare. They have garretts in the airport. You
don't even have to leave the airport. You can get it.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
It's so good, all right, I'll tell this story. We
we go to the Scarecrow Festival in Chapel Hill Hill
every year.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
We go.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Actually they have two festivals, but we definitely go to
that one. There's a guy and he's from the Houston
area and he makes the best flavored popcorn. We literally
that is guarantee things we buy. Yeah, about three popcorn people.
We really are in these. Stuff them in the freezer.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
I did not know this.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Put it in the freezer because in case you want
to have it a month later. I mean, the how
do you like?
Speaker 10 (19:06):
Re like?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
It doesn't get this?
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Shut it out now?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Does not?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Aw weird?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Does not get weird.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
No, does not.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
As a matter of fact, not this guy's I'm not
saying that. Everybody share that way, Go away? How interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
WTAW news time is seven thirty two. It is sixty
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Things You Value Most.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Good morning and Happy Friday. I'm Chelsea Reber.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
There are now at least two men who plan to
run for Bras's County judge next year. The latest announcement
from acting County Judge Kyle Cassell was among the topics
brought up during current Commissioner Chuck Condrla's visit on our show.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He announced that he'll be running for judge in the
next term, so the March twenty sixth primary his name
will be on that ballot.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I'm excited to see.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That former Brian City councilman Mike Sutherland has been advertising
that he will be running for county judge since before
Dwayne Peters recently announced that he is retiring next year.
This morning, ceremonial groundbreaking on the Texas A and M
campus of the Appland Center will include the Governor. The
two hundred and fifty million dollar complex, which is scheduled
to open in February of twenty twenty eight, includes a
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fifty million dollar gift that was made more than three
years ago by Bucky's Store founder Arch Applin. An email
from the Governor's office does not say whether he will
stay on campus after the groundbreaking for a special meeting
of the Board of regents where they could name an
interim president of the flagship campus. The College Station City
Council heard from this year's representative of Texas A and
M's Student Government Association at their last regular meeting.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Student government is committed to working collaboratively with the city
and with students. We want to find a solution that
serves residents, the city and students of today and for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
SGA's Vice president for Municipal Affairs, Annsley Broadwell, said that
student housing is an issue that plagues a lot of students.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I think students are not the happiest with all of
the high rise apartments going up, and they think that
that is going to make the cost of living higher
and also take away from Northgate and potentially take away
that College Station charm that is the Northgate district.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Northgate is one of three SGA goals with College Station
this year.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Along with parking and community engagement.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
College Station City staff is asking the city council to
take another swing at developing land that was rejected as
a data center.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Background information for next Thursday's council meeting says an unidentified
company wants to build a fifty five million dollar baseball
complex behind the Costco store. The proposal calls for the
city to contribute at least fifteen million dollars and either
give or least eighty acres of land. What's nicknamed Southern
Roots Baseball would have a thirty eight hundred seat stadium
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and eight more all turf fields. The developer also proposes
building an integrated baseball academy, where one hundred students would
also take junior college classes on site. The city's chief
Development officer told the council to consider how this project
might impact the previously approved addition of baseball fields at
Veterans Park Bill Oliver sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Brian Police is investigating a three vehicle collision that killed
one driver and left a second driver hospitalized in critical condition.
No names have been released from yesterday's crash on Highway
thirty near Hardywhaedon Road. The driver of a pickup was
killed after rear ending one suv, which sent the truck
into oncoming traffic and struck a second suv. The driver
of the second suv went to the hospital. The driver
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of the first suv was not injured. The murder of
a Brenna Man and Wes Bryan on Monday morning followed
a physical altercation involving three people. That's an update from
Brian police as they continue to look for those involved
in the shooting death of De Brandon Charles. Investigators are
still trying to determine what caused the altercation that led
to gunfire outside homes on Jaguar Drive. A special meeting
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of the Brian City Council is taking place this afternoon.
The only agenda item is to visit in private about
personnel items that include the possible hiring of a city manager.
A check of the city's job postings no longer includes
recruiting candidates to replace Keen Register, whose retirement was announced
three weeks ago. The council's consideration of the next city
manager is also scheduled for discussion and executive session next Tuesday.
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The grand opening of a renovated century old grocery store
and warehouse building on the north side of downtown Brian
is tonight, best known as the.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Kimball feed Store.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Cassidy Barton and Christy Petty turned it into a cultural
and event center.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
You would also see wonderful art and you know, lots
of music, and news and information about interesting organizations and
student groups and things like that that are here in Brian.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Barton says the venue is set up for live performances, smaller.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Scale theater and dance performances, music if we have artists
that are local and interested in potentially exhibiting work.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Tonight's grand opening event begins at six at the Kimball,
which is located at North Maine and Prue. Motorists on
the Aggie Expressway yesterday were the first to see the
official designation of a poor of Highway two forty nine,
as approved during this year's legislative session. The Lieutenant Governor
and a member of the Texas Transportation Commission. We're among
those uncovering the sign naming the stretch from Highway one
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oh five to FM seventeen seventy four for Doug Pitcock Junior,
a nineteen forty nine Aggie engineering graduate who founded a
construction company. HGB announces the upcoming retirement of the company's
president and the promotion of the new president, stepping down
in January after fifteen years is Craig Boyan. Being promoted
is Roxane Orsak and Aggie, who is ahib's chief operating
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Officer as part of a thirty seven year career.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Or Sak will be the first.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Woman to lead AGB since the founding of the store
chain in nineteen oh five by Florence But WTAW news
time is seven thirty seven. It's sixty eight degrees. News
is presented by West Webb, All, Brittan and Gentry. More
News at the top of the hour or online at
WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety
four five WTAW.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Good morning, It's seven thirty nine. It's a Friday. It's
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it'll be in the upper sixties and we got sixty
seven right now.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Texas A and M Baseball will host Sam Houston, an
exhibition action tonight starting at six o'clock from olsen Field
at bluebellt Park Parkings free, admission is free, concessions are open.
Sounds like a good time it should be. Yeah, we'll
talk about that and more coming up in sports.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
By the end of the hour, you'll know all you
need to about Mississippi State. Now who we're playing this weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That is who we're playing this weekend, both of cow
Bell the Blackout games.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
And Scott, you mentioned the running back former running back
that I mentioned in sports that got the NFL Rookie
of the Week and is named Woody Woody. Their current
running back is named Fluffy. Just at flight Perfect.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
I just like okay. Anyhow so again we've kind of
got okay weather for you to think about fall and
Brian College station.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I you know, I mentioned that the people in Canada
embrace Halloween on the government level, which we don't do
here in US America. But people do a pretty good
job when it comes to decorating around their house or
outdoors for sure for Halloween.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Yeah, yeah, for Halloween and even just for fall.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Right, my mom my mom was up in New York
visiting my grandmother a couple of weeks ago, and she
said the pumpkins were already out. Everybody had had the
pumpkins on their porches. And you know, there's great news
for fall lovers who may just not have the time
or the energy to buy their own pumpkins, but they
have the means, right, Like, maybe they have the money,
just not the time.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Enter pumpkin concierge.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Oh goodness, why have we not had this before?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I don't know, And maybe we have, we just they
didn't have a name. Oh okay, So what is a
pumpkin concia? Essentially, it's a professional porch decorator who, for
a couple hundred to thousands of dollars, will deliver seasonal
decor to your doorstep and style your entry way into
a Hallmark worthy backdrop. Oh four of them are cropping
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up across the country and this year business is booming,
according to Axios. So packages typically include pumpkins, hay bales,
and other fall items, but they can vary depending on
price and aesthetic. For people who also want to outsource
the cleanup, that's also an option. So it's kind of
like it's it's ultimately like this Christmas light business right, like, hey,
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come put the lights up for me. Take them off now,
enter the por the pumpkin porch decorators. So in Virginia,
patch to Porch sells packages ranging from three hundred dollars
for twenty eight pumpkins to one thousand dollars for ninety
six pumpkins, including designs, set up and removing.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Oh my gosh, wow a lot of pumpkins.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
And so I know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
In Salt Lake City, Pumpkin Porch Faerry offers style and
sustainability sourcing its descourt locally, decorating and then donating the
items to the community or back to farm.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Very nice.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Yes, so they.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Say it is a niche, but not unlike other seasonal
services like holiday decorators who install Christmas lights, wrap gifts
and decorate trees or instagrammable businesses. You know that we
see popping up as well. So the trend is gaining steam.
Oh get this. It all started five years ago in Texas,
Faily thanks to the og pumpkin hustler and owner of
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Porch Pumpkins, Heather Torres. She has turned her hobby into
a six figure business with twenty employees.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
She offers four packages, including a thirty pumpkin arrangement for
three hundred and twenty five dollars. That's the smallest and
most popular package. She also has one that's over one
thousand dollars for the true pumpkin lover that includes two
fifty pound pumpkins and other decorative items.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Man so crazy.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Yeah, they are sold out for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh wow, yep, you can join the weightlist now, there
you go, There you go.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So Torres now coaches other entrepreneurs on how to start
their own pumpkin concierge business and has helped twelve others
break into the business. Love female supporting other business owners.
She's also beginning to franchise girl.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
She charges four and a half k for that two
hour session. So she's helping herself out pretty well.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Obviously she's a businesswoman first and foremat.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Oh yeah, so she kicks it off, and she kicked
it off this year August fourth.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, you know I know someone who does not not locally,
but somewhere else in Texas who has his own Christmas
light business. And I mean he's he has already begun,
like he starts now because you because especially with that
a large house could could take a whole day to decorate,
and so you've got to make it worth your while.
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But you've got to start early enough to be able
to get to get enough customers.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Fortunately that's part of the country. Weather doesn't postpone you
from being able to get.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
The work done, too, which does it does suffer the
salt shelf life of the pumpkin.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Though, now yea, but you know the deal is pumpkins
last day long. They really do.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
If you don't cut them, they really do last a
lot time. And the thing is, I mean truly, because
I love pumpkins. I think they're in. Now you've got
white pumpkins, gray pumpkins, green pumpkins, like they have all
different shapes and sizes and like you know, the ones
with the weird warts on it. I go into AGB
and I see this huge pumpkin display and I'm like,
I don't I don't even know where to begin. So, yeah,
if I had the money and a porch, this is
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something I would be interested in, right.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Like a couple of limiting fast Well.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, exactly, which is fine, but but yeah, because sometimes
I look, I don't have that decorative mindset I never have.
And it's truly I look at an empty space and
I just don't know how to fill it with my brain.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
My creativity doesn't go there.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So for people who do this, like I am the customer,
like that is something that I would be interested in.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Well. Of course, when my kids were doing pumpkins, you
only had the orange pumpkin. That's it. And like you said,
these heirloom pumpkins, the different looks that I guess what
came in about fifteen years ago something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And I'm sure they've existed, but now farmers are really
breeding them on purpose because they they're sellable.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
And you end up with a company like this, they
know how to source those things. And yeah, like you say,
and you have to have the right eye for it
putting it all together. So maybe you can be a
pumpkins tell and again you don't this lady's doing well,
you could be a franchise e of hers. But the
idea is if you've got a good eye for that,
like you say, then there's a market out there.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Good morning and happy Friday. I'm will welch with your
morning sports updates. On sixteen, twenty ninety four or five wtaw.
Texas A and M's trinity of Buchanan delivered the game
winning goal in the sixty eighth minute of a one
to nothing shut out against Texas at Ellis Field last night,
and have dictated the terms of the match, statistically holding
a fourteen to nine advantage in shots and a four
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to one advantage in corner kicks. As part of the
defensive lockdown, the Aggies owned a seven to one shots
on goal margin. Here's Coach g after the game. Well,
it's just.
Speaker 10 (32:16):
It's a testament to that. You know, if you don't
give up, good things are going to happen. And you
got to just keep fighting, got to keep chugging away.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
This game meant a lot to this team. On the
follow up question, the water bottles came out and the
celebration rained down.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Well, thank you, I love you guys, thank you. Awesome job, ladies.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I'll TuS holy smoke.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
The rivalry match was a bit spicy, eight fouls for
Texas A and M and fourteen for Texas. Two yellow
cards were issued to the Longhorns late in the second half.
The Aggies returned to action Sunday when they traveled to
Norman for a two o'clock contest against Oklahoma. The Texas
A and M baseball team begins fall exhibition action tonight
with a twelve inning scrimmage against Sam Houston, starting at
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six o'clock from Olsenfield at Bluebell Park. Head coach Michael
Early is glad to get the guys on the field.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Anytime you can step on the field with your team
in your uniform in this environment, which is the best
environment in college baseball, even in the fall, it's it's
really good for all the guys.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
For some of the newcomers, it's more than just getting
used to the game and their teammates.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
Some of these guys, this will be the biggest crowd
they've ever played in front of, and I think that's
important to get that type of experience.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
And game admission is free and concessions will be open.
Texas A and M's men's tennis team continues fall play
at the Big Twelve SEC Challenge today through Sunday at
Baylor's Herd Tennis Center. Joining the Aggies and representing the
SEC are the Longhorns, with Big Twelve opponents including Arizona,
Arizona State, Baylor, and Texas Tech, a former Mississippi State
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football star is earning accolades in his rookie sat in
the NFL. Houston Texans running back Woody Marx was named
the NFL's Rookie of the Week following a breakout performance
last week over the Titans. Marx had seventeen carries for
sixty nine yards, scored a touchdown, and caught four passes
for fifty yards with another TD. The Texans are in
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Baltimore to face the Ravens at noon on Sunday. With
CD Lamb out for the Cowboys this weekend, others in
the receiver group have to stemp up. Unfortunately, that probably
won't be wide receiver and kick returner Cavante Turpin. Turpin
could be sidelined for Sunday's game against the Jets with
a foot injury that he sustained during the team's game
last week against the Packers. According to the Cowboys website,
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it doesn't look like Turpin's injury will land him on
the injured reserve, which would sideline him for four games.
The Cowboys will take on the Jets on the road
on Sunday. Friday night meets high school football, and that
means you need to Visit Brasssfootball dot com for all
the scores, standings, and where to listen to the games
on the Brian Broadcasting family of stations. Your Morning Sports
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Update on sixteen, twenty ninety four to five wta W.
I'm will welch.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Friday before game day.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
It's the fight song, all right, here.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
You go, yel dear Old State, fight for that victory today.
Hit that line and tote that ball. Yeah, cross the
goal before you fall, good idea. Yeah, and then will yell, yell, yell,
yell for dear Old State. Will yell like hell yeah,
fight for Mississippi State, win that game today. Okay, do
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they sing that like basketball games? Well, I mean it's
clearly a very football centric fight song.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Yeah, it fall before you hit the goal or whatever.
Hit the line and tote the ball.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
All right.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Well, and then they're ringing their cow billy yeah, kal bells.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
Goodness they cannot bring to Kyle Field.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
So tell us about people who have graduated.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
From Yeah, you know, obviously a lot of athletes you've got,
you know, you're Dak Prescott, Rafael Palmerow, Yeah, Bobby Bigpen,
Donald Lee. But did you know the infamous machine gun Kelly.
Not that rapper singer dude that we thought real.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
Machine gun Kelly, criminal, but the criminal.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yeah, apparently we spent some time at ol Old Mississippi State.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
What what school does that.
Speaker 10 (36:26):
Kelly?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I don't know, but he's one of the first one
that pops up on your old notable alumni.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
The list is pretty short coming from Mississippi State.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
Oh but hey, how about John Grisham, Oh, the novelist.
That's a big one.
Speaker 7 (36:39):
You know, Oxford and Old miss is where all the
novelists gather. I guess he was the lone one out
there way Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
And then you know, I listened to a couple of
barstool podcasts and one of their their main college football
expert guy is a Mississippi State guy.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
His names of Brandon H. What is his last name?
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Walker?
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Walker? There it is, And so he does a pretty
good job.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But him and our very own Texas A and M's
Casey Smith, they host a podcast together called Unnecessary Roughness.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
It's about college football.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
So, okay, you know, we fired every ballard and Mississippi
State hired him. We fired Jackie Cheryl and Mississippis State
hired him. We got rid of our jumbo tron and
Mississippi State bought it.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
Did they really?
Speaker 8 (37:22):
Really? I didn't know that A hand.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Me down right, I know, that's exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
It's still better than what half of the SEC has.
I mean, I go to LSU and I'm like, I
can't even see what is on that screen?
Speaker 8 (37:35):
What is going on? I hear you, I knew jumbo drawn?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
All right, So when's the kickoff?
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Get ready for those LED lights? Gonna be cool?
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Painted black they have.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
Yeah, yeah, they have.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Somebody, thanks to the listener, they repainted Kyle Field. So
they've got the black end zones. They've got the black
you know sidelines. So that'll be pretty cool too, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
A survey of two thousand pairs reveals widespread belief in
pregnancy myths. A third of them think heartburn means that
babies will have lots of hair.
Speaker 10 (38:07):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
There's a study that found the twenty percent think spicy
foods trigger labor. Other unusual beliefs seeing animals reveals babies,
gender and hard rock music harms fetuses. One respondent said,
if we dream about fish and someone is pregnant in
our family, oh wow, Okay, bite the myths. Seventy percent
of parents discover their baby's gender before birth, now seventy percent. Yeah, yeah,
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more fathers.
Speaker 8 (38:32):
Don't want to paint the nursery, that's right.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Yeah, more fathers correctly guests gender than mothers, like seventy
percent versus sixty percent.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
That's interesting because usually, I mean, the mother has some idea,
you know, it depends on like is it is it high?
Speaker 8 (38:45):
Is it low?
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Right?
Speaker 6 (38:46):
I don't know all right. Of parents with gender preferences,
fifty nine percent prefer boys reg as if you had
anything to do with it. At that point, you know
they're on the way.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I was gonna say, that's the worst thing about gender
reveal videos is when that one Usually it's the dad,
but when one of them looks absolutely like disappointed, disappointed,
it's so sad.
Speaker 8 (39:09):
I agree, Like, just want a healthy baby.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
That's all I said, ten fingers, ten toes. I didn't
care what else, you know, what's going on.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
Steve Jobs picked the name Apple because he was on
a diet of nothing but fruits and vegetables when the
company was starting up.
Speaker 8 (39:23):
And while Apple must have been his favorite. That's it.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
And while we're talking about that, there was never an
iPhone two. They went from the original iPhone right to
iPhone three.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
G oh okay
WTAW news time is three minutes after seven. It is
sixty seven degrees. Good morning, I'm Chelsea Reebert. One person
was killed and another is hospitalized in critical condition following
a three vehicle collision yesterday. This took place on Highway
thirty near Hardy Whedon Road. The preliminary investigation from Brian
Belize says the person who was killed was driving a
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pickup that rear ended one suv, then went into oncoming
traffic and was hit by a second suv. Brian Belize
continues to look for those responsible for shooting a Brenna
man to death earlier this week. According to a BPD update,
investigators have identified three individuals who were involved in a
physical altercation Monday morning. The news release says that escalated
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into gunfire outside homes south of the west Side Walmart
store on Jaguar Drive. Brazos County Commissioner Chuck conder La
tells listeners on our show that he's excited to see
acting County Judge Kyle Cassell running for the permanent position
in next year's election.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Probably one of the worst things you can say in
his presence is this is the way we've always done it,
that would you know it's rare to see Kyle Scale,
but he's sure scowls at that.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Another county judge candidate in next year's election, former Bryan
City Councilman Mike Sutherland, started advertising before Daine Peters announced
that he's retiring next year. College Station could be getting
another baseball field complex.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And next Thursday's College Station City Council meeting, an unidentified
company will make a pitch for using city on land
behind the Costco store. What's nicknamed the Southern Roots Baseball
Complex includes a thirty eight hundred seat stadium and eight
additional altur fields. The unidentified company proposing the fifty five
to sixty million dollar complex is asking the city for
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fifteen to twenty million and to donate or lease eighty
acres of land Bill Oliver sixteen to twenty ninety four
to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The College Station City Council is introduced to this year's
representative from Texas A and M's Student Government Association, Ansley Broadwell,
class of is SGA's vice president for municipal Affairs. Speaking
at the council's last regular meeting, Broadwell said one of
her goals is community engagement.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I was on big events, staff going out serving the community,
and I want to make that a bigger opportunity for students,
get them more involved beyond just one day.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Of the year. Another goal is the future development of
the Northgate district.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Figuring out how we can work on making that more
of a permanent area and how we can figure out
the land development issues as well. So we will also
be coming up with the land Development Plan to help
students and the city find a solution to that.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Broadwell also said many students are not happy with all
the high rise housing in the Northgate district. Governor Abbott
will be among those on the Texas A and M
campus this morning who are participating in the ceremonial groundbreaking
of the Appland Center. The two hundred and fifty million
dollar complex includes a fifty million dollar gift that was
made more than three years ago by Bucky's Store founder
Arch Applin. Construction is scheduled for completion in February of
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twenty twenty eight. A large building on the north side
of downtown Brian has been rent of, and today, on
the twentieth anniversary of First Friday, is the opening of
what was the Kimball Feed Store and is now a
cultural and event center.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
The cultural event center is really meant to be a
showcase space for the community or arts and culture or events.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Cassidy Barton, who owns the building with Christy Petty, says
parts of the century old building have been repurposed.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
We hope that people who have been too, that went
to the kimblefeed Store might still walk in and feel
like a sense of recognition because you'll see clay block walls,
You'll see some concrete floors, lots of monts of wood.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Located on North Maine at Pruit, The Kimball's grand opening
event starts this evening at six WTAW News time is
six minutes after seven. It's sixty seven degrees. More news
at seven thirty, or you can always go to our
website WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty eight,
ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah, it's a Friday, but you probably already know that's
seven or nine. You may know that too, might know
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got sixty seven right now.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
It was A and M and the Longhorns on the
pitch last night out at ellis Field. We'll talk about
that and more coming up in sports.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
There you go. So we did. What was the song
that we sang? Oh, the Reading Rainbow. Chelse sang Reading Rainbows.
Every word, do every word? And you know, it's really
cool because songs teach us things in song ilicit memories,
and there are certain songs that almost everybody knows, but
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a lot of cases it ends up being the situation
as to how old you are whether or not you
know these songs. And back in the day, oldies radio
used to be very, very popular for the reason that
you could sing along with those songs. And now again
because you can curate your own list. You can have
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a list of songs where you know every word to
every one of the songs.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Oh yeah, you're singing along the whole time.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Sure, part of that might be the reason that you've
got them together. But so you gov, who has nothing
else to do other than the survey people about a
whole lot of unusual songs. They took songs and they
broke down by age group eighteen to twenty nine, thirty
to forty four, forty six, rather forty five to sixty four,
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and then sixty five plus. Had said do you know
these songs?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Now?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
So I gave Chelsea and Will these these songs and
I don't know, there's like thirty songs.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Here, twenty twenty seven or okay, twenty four on the list.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
All right, So so each of you, because you guys
follow if you fall in different age group than I do,
and so band different from one another, right exactly? So
Chelsea on that list, what was the first song on
the list where a lot of people knew the words
to it and you didn't?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, uh, probably, I mean, I guess I you know
Hotel California.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Okay, Hotel California.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
I know these songs? Do I know every single word?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
No?
Speaker 8 (06:14):
But you can.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
And that's the thing. Singing along? They say, can you
sing along with this?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Song.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Well, there's a hook in almost everything.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right, so maybe like a part of the song, but
you know, they are very I'm also not like somebody
who just sits around and like memorizes songs and so,
but I will tell you the one that I know
every single word to and remember actually listening to the
CD and rewinding or you know, skipping back just so
I could listen to and memorize. The song that neither
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one of you probably do is all Star by smash Mouth.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Oh yeah, no, you're right.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I can sing along to that entire song.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I do know the song simply because it was on
the radio when I was on a music station and
I played it six hundred and forty seven times today.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
All right, that would yeah, all right, So will what
about you?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
The only song? And again, singing along is different than
knowing every lyric verbatim. Yeah, but there's one that I
completely blank on and could not sing along, and that
is the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Well, I didn't have that one either, And a percentage wise,
where was that in your ape? Because that's the thing,
because you were in radio, you were in.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Amusing my age group seventeen percent.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Yeah, Well, number one. So the as far as I'm concerned,
I don't know Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen at all. Really, yeah,
and in my age group, that's seventeen percent would know that. Yeah,
it just I mean, I know what the song is, sure,
but I wasn't interested enough to even learn any of it.
Didn't see the movie, So I don't know. Number one
on the list doesn't matter what the age group was.
It was Happy Birthday, which perfectly makes sense. Sure, Number
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two it was is rather interesting. Was jingle bell yep? Okay,
so we got Happy Birthday and jingle bells. Then comes
the national anthem. Right now, it says here, it says
here that thirty six percent of eighteen to twenty nine
year olds know the national anthem. I think that's high.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Oh okay, I don't know the high school football games.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Well, and now they put the words on the jumbo tron.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So I actually think, you know, younger people who have
gotten used to that might even know the words more
accurately than people my age.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Oh yeah, that's so those three, all those three songs
are in eighty percent. And like in the old folks, okay,
all the old people know that. Next was Amazing Grace,
which is an interesting song that I don't hear nearly
as much as I used to. Right, A lot of
people here are just as bagpipes at a funeral part.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Right, right. And then if you don't go to church
on a regular basis, you really may not know it.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
And then on the list, number five on the list
is truly amazing to me that it is so high
overall it came in at forty two percent. It is
take Me out to the Ballgame. Yeah, yep, okay, you
could do take me out to the ballgame, and that's it. Okay,
can you go on from there?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
I means and peanuts in crack or Jack's Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I think it's amazing. I think the first five songs
on that list to tell us so much positive about
our country. Yeah, I mean it's Happy Birthday, it's jingle bells,
it's our national anthem, it's Amazing Grace, and it's take
Me out to the ball game. I think that that
says something positive.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Well, I know I would agree. I would agree that
that's something that makes you makes you feel good. Was
there a song on here that was very high for
your age group that you found surprising.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Will let's see high for my age group that I
found surprising, I would have to say, no, okay, not
one on that.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I will tell you the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song you
mentioned it earlier. That's forty percent for my age group.
That feels a little high to me. I mean, I
guess I kinda watched SpongeBob a little bit, but and
I definitely know the song, like I know what they're
talking about, but I don't think I could sing.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Along with it. Yeah, so, and of course I couldn't.
And I looked at four percent people in my age.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Hotel California is also a little bit high, thirty seven
percent for my age group. And again that's not one
I don't I don't think I could sing along the
whole time.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
We'll just run the list for you so you'll know,
like we'll do I'll do the first ten, Will you
do the next ten?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Can you do the red?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
So it's Happy Birthday, jingle Bells, star Spangled Banner, Amazing Grace,
Take Me Out to the Ball Game Somewhere over the
Rainbow by Judy Garling from the Wizard of Us, which
by the way, was almost taken out of the movie.
I just happened to read that yesterday, almost taken out
of the movie. Then comes Hotel California by the Eagles,
and an America.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Beautiful Well somewhere over the Rainbow has been sung by
so many other people. So Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen Let
It Be by the Beatles, back to back Beatles, Hey
Jude by the Beatles, Don't Stop Believing by Journey.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's such a go to Carrige every single Yeah, that's
why people know that one.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Yeah, it was his birthday yesterday. American Pie by Don McClain.
Oh yeah, sure, Piano Man by Billy Joel.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
M Yeah, yeah, the SpongeBob square Pants theme song that
was on there as well, Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond.
Well no bump bump bump, Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
You know that part Baby Shark, Oh my yeah, let
it go from Frozen.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Yeah, okay, this one I definitely could sing along to you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I Want It that Way by Backstreet Boys, The Fresh
Prince of bel Air by Will Smith, and obviously if
you watched the show, that was the theme song. Yeah,
so a lot of people knew it because of that.
Joe Lene by Dolly parton All Star by smash Mouth
and then take on Me by Aha.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
I happen to know every board of that phone you yeah, okay, yeah,
And I say it's six percent from my age group.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
But yeah, So there you go, the song that you
could sing along with eighteen minutes after seven o'clock with
the Info Maniacs. In a very very sad story that
happened on Tuesday morning. Guys. It was a multi vehicle
crash in California. It involved two big rigs just before
three am in the morning on the highway. It caused
one of the trailers to rip open. It spilled Coors Light,
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beer cans and kegs across multiple lengths of track, perfect
and I mean an absolute ton of them, right, And
there was there was you know, masks, you know, chaos
as beers going everywhere, which this sort of thing happens
every so often, but usually, and this was a big one.
Usually it's in a smaller magnitude. But decades ago, and
we're talking over forty years ago. I recall this happening
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here in College station, and I remember it from watching
Walter Cronkite talk about it on the nightly news. I
mean it was a national story. It occurred as let's
see here in October thirtieth, nineteen eighty two, a train
derailment just adjacent to the and M campus spilled more
than one hundred thousand cans of beer and kegs onto
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the highway. And this occurred apparently at the intersection of
what they called Highway sixty back then, University Drive and
Welburn Road.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
That was before they had the under it, before they
had the underpap was I guess clearly before they had
the underpass.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Okay, so it was. They were part of a ninety
nine car train that came barreling through at ten miles
an hour. There's no cause for the derailment, but I
remember them showing trucks full of aggies full of driving
away from the site. There was four thousand, six hundred
cans of beer. There were also fifteen other box cars
on the train that were carrying beer. Two hundred thousand
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dollars worth of damage at that time done to the
roadbed and heavy equipment had to be brought in from
Houston to lift the box car that was hanging off.
I guess the overpass was there because it was said
it was hanging off the overpass. So that is an
absolute ton of beer. But I can never get that
picture out of my head. I was in junior high
at the time right there on what was George Bush
(13:31):
Drive Jersey or what was George Bush?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Now?
Speaker 7 (13:33):
I had forgotten about what was George Bush George Bush Drive, Jersey.
That's right, it was the part of the cow Streets.
I remember that vividly, talking about that in school the
next day, that there was so much beer and these
helpful aggies were out there taking care of it.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
That was nineteen eighty two. I didn't have to live
here now that I was living in Beaumont at that time.
So like kegs in the back of pickup truck, just.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Cases of beer and loose beer cans that had scattered everywhere.
I remember the video film at that point in time vividly.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Nothing like making the national news for all the right reason. Right,
good morning, it's the infomdiacs. It's a seven to twenty three. Again,
it's mid autumn today, and I guess that's probably right.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, because if your fall really starts September one, yeah,
I mean we are and then ends, you know, Thanksgiving,
we're mid fall.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Got them all right. So anyway, so it's the US
the third day of October and October's National popcorn months.
So yeah, though popcorn probably originated in Mexico, it was
grown in China, Sumatra, and India before Columbus ever visited America.
So the Mexicans could have had you know, they could
have been chopping on popcorn and we didn't know about it.
(14:45):
So this is one of the things that I guess
Columbus gets a little bit of credit for. Indiana and
Nebraska are among the top popcorn producing states in US America,
and Americans consume seventeen billion quarts of popcorn annually.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Now why do we eat popcorn and movie theaters? Well,
one possible reason. During the depression, popcorn was cheap five
or ten cents a bag. It was one of the
few luxuries that most families could afford. In fact, an
Oklahoma banker who went broke when his bank failed bought
a popcorn machine, started a business in a small store
near a theater, and after a couple of years his
popcorn business was a poppin' Okay. During World War Two,
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sugar of course was sent overseas rationing here in the
United States. That meant there wasn't much sugar available to
make candy. So thanks to this unusual situation, Americans eight
three times as much popcorn as usual.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
It went into a slump in the nineteen fifties when
television became popular. Movie theater's attendance dropped, sure, and that
with that, the popcorn consumption dropped. When the public began
eating popcorn at home, the new relationship between TV and
popcorn led to a resurgence in its popularity.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Popcorn has been found in fifty six hundred year old
caves in New Mexico. Yeah, and it was central to
ancient rituals by Aztec Incas, who used popped kernels in
jewelry and ceremonial headdresses cost popcorn.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Really, Yeah, that's what it says.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Native Americans introduced popcorn to English colonists at the first Thanksgiving,
with the wamp and Ogg bringing.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
A bag of popcorn as a gift.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And then finally, a Chicago inventor, Charles Creeters, developed the
world's first mobile popcorn machine in eighteen ninety three. This,
of course, revolutionized popcorn sales at fairs and theaters.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Man, so now you mentioned the popcorn in jewelry. Did
you guys ever do popcorn and Cranberry's necklace at school?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
I didn't do it with cran school popcorn carlands for
the trees, right.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Got that sure you could do that. Now that's the
other thing. So because of our age differences, popcorn when
we were a kid may have been completely different. So
now will well, how do you first remember popcorn jilly
jiffy pop on the ground mother's stove? Okay, okay, did
you do jiffy pop?
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Chelsea?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Maybe like once or twice, like a friend's house or something,
So I know what it is, and you know, I've
seen it on the stove, but I was were we
were definitely like an Orville Redenbacker microwave situation at my house.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
That checks out, And yeah, that's the thing. And you know,
if you're old school, you remember there used to be
a popcorn popping pan that had a little stir in it,
had a little sturred that you could turn that had
a crank that you had a crank on the top
and the little stir would stir the popcorn in the
oil in the bottom of the pan, and then you
pop it in this designated pan.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
And now you can just buy it by the bag.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
And then well, and we were discussing earlier this week,
one of those hacks just takes a popcorn, throw it
into a little paper sack, put the seasoning in there,
and stick in the microwave. You don't have to have
the sealed one if you don't want to.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
But it tastes so good it does.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
That's exactly right. And then of course you can just
buy it now in all sorts of flavors.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Yeah, I don't like buying post popped popcorn.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Some of it's okay, Yeah, some of it's okay, carramle corn.
I love kettle corn.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Kettle corn too, all fresh kettle corn at the ballpark.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Do you guys remember popabilities?
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Yes? Remember that?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Huh yeah? I mean that was that stuff was very
interesting because they'd pop all those exotic flavors and you
could do that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But one of my favorite garrets in Chicago, and they
do what they call the Chicago Mix.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
And I know it sounds a little wild, but it's.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Caramel corn and their cheddar cheese corn mixed together.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
That works.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It is amazing. If you're even if you're have a
layover in O'Hare. They have garretts in the airport. You
don't even have to leave the airport. You can get it.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
It's so good, all right, I'll tell this story. We
we go to the Scarecrow Festival in Chapel Hill Hill
every year.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
We go.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Actually they have two festivals, but we definitely go to
that one. There's a guy and he's from the Houston
area and he makes the best flavored popcorn. We literally
that is guarantee things we buy. Yeah, about three popcorn people.
We really are in these. Stuff them in the freezer.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
I did not know this.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Put it in the freezer because in case you want
to have it a month later. I mean, the how
do you like?
Speaker 10 (19:06):
Re like?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
It doesn't get this?
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Shut it out now?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Does not?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Aw weird?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Does not get weird.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
No, does not.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
As a matter of fact, not this guy's I'm not
saying that. Everybody share that way, Go away? How interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
WTAW news time is seven thirty two. It is sixty
eight degrees. News is presented by west Webb, All Britain
and Gentry Law firm, the Experience Legal team for the
Things You Value Most.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Good morning and Happy Friday. I'm Chelsea Reber.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
There are now at least two men who plan to
run for Bras's County judge next year. The latest announcement
from acting County Judge Kyle Cassell was among the topics
brought up during current Commissioner Chuck Condrla's visit on our show.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He announced that he'll be running for judge in the
next term, so the March twenty sixth primary his name
will be on that ballot.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I'm excited to see.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That former Brian City councilman Mike Sutherland has been advertising
that he will be running for county judge since before
Dwayne Peters recently announced that he is retiring next year.
This morning, ceremonial groundbreaking on the Texas A and M
campus of the Appland Center will include the Governor. The
two hundred and fifty million dollar complex, which is scheduled
to open in February of twenty twenty eight, includes a
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fifty million dollar gift that was made more than three
years ago by Bucky's Store founder Arch Applin. An email
from the Governor's office does not say whether he will
stay on campus after the groundbreaking for a special meeting
of the Board of regents where they could name an
interim president of the flagship campus. The College Station City
Council heard from this year's representative of Texas A and
M's Student Government Association at their last regular meeting.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Student government is committed to working collaboratively with the city
and with students. We want to find a solution that
serves residents, the city and students of today and for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
SGA's Vice president for Municipal Affairs, Annsley Broadwell, said that
student housing is an issue that plagues a lot of students.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I think students are not the happiest with all of
the high rise apartments going up, and they think that
that is going to make the cost of living higher
and also take away from Northgate and potentially take away
that College Station charm that is the Northgate district.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Northgate is one of three SGA goals with College Station
this year.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Along with parking and community engagement.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
College Station City staff is asking the city council to
take another swing at developing land that was rejected as
a data center.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Background information for next Thursday's council meeting says an unidentified
company wants to build a fifty five million dollar baseball
complex behind the Costco store. The proposal calls for the
city to contribute at least fifteen million dollars and either
give or least eighty acres of land. What's nicknamed Southern
Roots Baseball would have a thirty eight hundred seat stadium
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and eight more all turf fields. The developer also proposes
building an integrated baseball academy, where one hundred students would
also take junior college classes on site. The city's chief
Development officer told the council to consider how this project
might impact the previously approved addition of baseball fields at
Veterans Park Bill Oliver sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Brian Police is investigating a three vehicle collision that killed
one driver and left a second driver hospitalized in critical condition.
No names have been released from yesterday's crash on Highway
thirty near Hardywhaedon Road. The driver of a pickup was
killed after rear ending one suv, which sent the truck
into oncoming traffic and struck a second suv. The driver
of the second suv went to the hospital. The driver
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of the first suv was not injured. The murder of
a Brenna Man and Wes Bryan on Monday morning followed
a physical altercation involving three people. That's an update from
Brian police as they continue to look for those involved
in the shooting death of De Brandon Charles. Investigators are
still trying to determine what caused the altercation that led
to gunfire outside homes on Jaguar Drive. A special meeting
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of the Brian City Council is taking place this afternoon.
The only agenda item is to visit in private about
personnel items that include the possible hiring of a city manager.
A check of the city's job postings no longer includes
recruiting candidates to replace Keen Register, whose retirement was announced
three weeks ago. The council's consideration of the next city
manager is also scheduled for discussion and executive session next Tuesday.
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The grand opening of a renovated century old grocery store
and warehouse building on the north side of downtown Brian
is tonight, best known as the.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Kimball feed Store.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Cassidy Barton and Christy Petty turned it into a cultural
and event center.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
You would also see wonderful art and you know, lots
of music, and news and information about interesting organizations and
student groups and things like that that are here in Brian.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Barton says the venue is set up for live performances, smaller.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Scale theater and dance performances, music if we have artists
that are local and interested in potentially exhibiting work.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Tonight's grand opening event begins at six at the Kimball,
which is located at North Maine and Prue. Motorists on
the Aggie Expressway yesterday were the first to see the
official designation of a poor of Highway two forty nine,
as approved during this year's legislative session. The Lieutenant Governor
and a member of the Texas Transportation Commission. We're among
those uncovering the sign naming the stretch from Highway one
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oh five to FM seventeen seventy four for Doug Pitcock Junior,
a nineteen forty nine Aggie engineering graduate who founded a
construction company. HGB announces the upcoming retirement of the company's
president and the promotion of the new president, stepping down
in January after fifteen years is Craig Boyan. Being promoted
is Roxane Orsak and Aggie, who is ahib's chief operating
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Officer as part of a thirty seven year career.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Or Sak will be the first.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Woman to lead AGB since the founding of the store
chain in nineteen oh five by Florence But WTAW news
time is seven thirty seven. It's sixty eight degrees. News
is presented by West Webb, All, Brittan and Gentry. More
News at the top of the hour or online at
WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety
four five WTAW.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Good morning, It's seven thirty nine. It's a Friday. It's
the infomati X. Glad you're with us. Our weather. It's
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jempertsure today and actually all the way through the weekend,
ninety one or ninety two wins out of the east,
so that'll be kind of pleasant, low temperatures East. Not
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it'll be in the upper sixties and we got sixty
seven right now.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Texas A and M Baseball will host Sam Houston, an
exhibition action tonight starting at six o'clock from olsen Field
at bluebellt Park Parkings free, admission is free, concessions are open.
Sounds like a good time it should be. Yeah, we'll
talk about that and more coming up in sports.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
By the end of the hour, you'll know all you
need to about Mississippi State. Now who we're playing this weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That is who we're playing this weekend, both of cow
Bell the Blackout games.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
And Scott, you mentioned the running back former running back
that I mentioned in sports that got the NFL Rookie
of the Week and is named Woody Woody. Their current
running back is named Fluffy. Just at flight Perfect.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
I just like okay. Anyhow so again we've kind of
got okay weather for you to think about fall and
Brian College station.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I you know, I mentioned that the people in Canada
embrace Halloween on the government level, which we don't do
here in US America. But people do a pretty good
job when it comes to decorating around their house or
outdoors for sure for Halloween.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Yeah, yeah, for Halloween and even just for fall.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Right, my mom my mom was up in New York
visiting my grandmother a couple of weeks ago, and she
said the pumpkins were already out. Everybody had had the
pumpkins on their porches. And you know, there's great news
for fall lovers who may just not have the time
or the energy to buy their own pumpkins, but they
have the means, right, Like, maybe they have the money,
just not the time.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Enter pumpkin concierge.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Oh goodness, why have we not had this before?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I don't know, And maybe we have, we just they
didn't have a name. Oh okay, So what is a
pumpkin concia? Essentially, it's a professional porch decorator who, for
a couple hundred to thousands of dollars, will deliver seasonal
decor to your doorstep and style your entry way into
a Hallmark worthy backdrop. Oh four of them are cropping
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up across the country and this year business is booming,
according to Axios. So packages typically include pumpkins, hay bales,
and other fall items, but they can vary depending on
price and aesthetic. For people who also want to outsource
the cleanup, that's also an option. So it's kind of
like it's it's ultimately like this Christmas light business right, like, hey,
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come put the lights up for me. Take them off now,
enter the por the pumpkin porch decorators. So in Virginia,
patch to Porch sells packages ranging from three hundred dollars
for twenty eight pumpkins to one thousand dollars for ninety
six pumpkins, including designs, set up and removing.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Oh my gosh, wow a lot of pumpkins.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
And so I know.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
In Salt Lake City, Pumpkin Porch Faerry offers style and
sustainability sourcing its descourt locally, decorating and then donating the
items to the community or back to farm.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Very nice.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Yes, so they.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Say it is a niche, but not unlike other seasonal
services like holiday decorators who install Christmas lights, wrap gifts
and decorate trees or instagrammable businesses. You know that we
see popping up as well. So the trend is gaining steam.
Oh get this. It all started five years ago in Texas,
Faily thanks to the og pumpkin hustler and owner of
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Porch Pumpkins, Heather Torres. She has turned her hobby into
a six figure business with twenty employees.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
She offers four packages, including a thirty pumpkin arrangement for
three hundred and twenty five dollars. That's the smallest and
most popular package. She also has one that's over one
thousand dollars for the true pumpkin lover that includes two
fifty pound pumpkins and other decorative items.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Man so crazy.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Yeah, they are sold out for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh wow, yep, you can join the weightlist now, there
you go, There you go.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So Torres now coaches other entrepreneurs on how to start
their own pumpkin concierge business and has helped twelve others
break into the business. Love female supporting other business owners.
She's also beginning to franchise girl.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
She charges four and a half k for that two
hour session. So she's helping herself out pretty well.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Obviously she's a businesswoman first and foremat.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Oh yeah, so she kicks it off, and she kicked
it off this year August fourth.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, you know I know someone who does not not locally,
but somewhere else in Texas who has his own Christmas
light business. And I mean he's he has already begun,
like he starts now because you because especially with that
a large house could could take a whole day to decorate,
and so you've got to make it worth your while.
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But you've got to start early enough to be able
to get to get enough customers.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Fortunately that's part of the country. Weather doesn't postpone you
from being able to get.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
The work done, too, which does it does suffer the
salt shelf life of the pumpkin.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Though, now yea, but you know the deal is pumpkins
last day long. They really do.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
If you don't cut them, they really do last a
lot time. And the thing is, I mean truly, because
I love pumpkins. I think they're in. Now you've got
white pumpkins, gray pumpkins, green pumpkins, like they have all
different shapes and sizes and like you know, the ones
with the weird warts on it. I go into AGB
and I see this huge pumpkin display and I'm like,
I don't I don't even know where to begin. So, yeah,
if I had the money and a porch, this is
(30:37):
something I would be interested in, right.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Like a couple of limiting fast Well.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, exactly, which is fine, but but yeah, because sometimes
I look, I don't have that decorative mindset I never have.
And it's truly I look at an empty space and
I just don't know how to fill it with my brain.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
My creativity doesn't go there.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So for people who do this, like I am the customer,
like that is something that I would be interested in.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Well. Of course, when my kids were doing pumpkins, you
only had the orange pumpkin. That's it. And like you said,
these heirloom pumpkins, the different looks that I guess what
came in about fifteen years ago something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And I'm sure they've existed, but now farmers are really
breeding them on purpose because they they're sellable.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
And you end up with a company like this, they
know how to source those things. And yeah, like you say,
and you have to have the right eye for it
putting it all together. So maybe you can be a
pumpkins tell and again you don't this lady's doing well,
you could be a franchise e of hers. But the
idea is if you've got a good eye for that,
like you say, then there's a market out there.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Good morning and happy Friday. I'm will welch with your
morning sports updates. On sixteen, twenty ninety four or five wtaw.
Texas A and M's trinity of Buchanan delivered the game
winning goal in the sixty eighth minute of a one
to nothing shut out against Texas at Ellis Field last night,
and have dictated the terms of the match, statistically holding
a fourteen to nine advantage in shots and a four
(32:07):
to one advantage in corner kicks. As part of the
defensive lockdown, the Aggies owned a seven to one shots
on goal margin. Here's Coach g after the game. Well,
it's just.
Speaker 10 (32:16):
It's a testament to that. You know, if you don't
give up, good things are going to happen. And you
got to just keep fighting, got to keep chugging away.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
This game meant a lot to this team. On the
follow up question, the water bottles came out and the
celebration rained down.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Well, thank you, I love you guys, thank you. Awesome job, ladies.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I'll TuS holy smoke.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
The rivalry match was a bit spicy, eight fouls for
Texas A and M and fourteen for Texas. Two yellow
cards were issued to the Longhorns late in the second half.
The Aggies returned to action Sunday when they traveled to
Norman for a two o'clock contest against Oklahoma. The Texas
A and M baseball team begins fall exhibition action tonight
with a twelve inning scrimmage against Sam Houston, starting at
(33:08):
six o'clock from Olsenfield at Bluebell Park. Head coach Michael
Early is glad to get the guys on the field.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Anytime you can step on the field with your team
in your uniform in this environment, which is the best
environment in college baseball, even in the fall, it's it's
really good for all the guys.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
For some of the newcomers, it's more than just getting
used to the game and their teammates.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
Some of these guys, this will be the biggest crowd
they've ever played in front of, and I think that's
important to get that type of experience.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
And game admission is free and concessions will be open.
Texas A and M's men's tennis team continues fall play
at the Big Twelve SEC Challenge today through Sunday at
Baylor's Herd Tennis Center. Joining the Aggies and representing the
SEC are the Longhorns, with Big Twelve opponents including Arizona,
Arizona State, Baylor, and Texas Tech, a former Mississippi State
(33:57):
football star is earning accolades in his rookie sat in
the NFL. Houston Texans running back Woody Marx was named
the NFL's Rookie of the Week following a breakout performance
last week over the Titans. Marx had seventeen carries for
sixty nine yards, scored a touchdown, and caught four passes
for fifty yards with another TD. The Texans are in
(34:17):
Baltimore to face the Ravens at noon on Sunday. With
CD Lamb out for the Cowboys this weekend, others in
the receiver group have to stemp up. Unfortunately, that probably
won't be wide receiver and kick returner Cavante Turpin. Turpin
could be sidelined for Sunday's game against the Jets with
a foot injury that he sustained during the team's game
last week against the Packers. According to the Cowboys website,
(34:39):
it doesn't look like Turpin's injury will land him on
the injured reserve, which would sideline him for four games.
The Cowboys will take on the Jets on the road
on Sunday. Friday night meets high school football, and that
means you need to Visit Brasssfootball dot com for all
the scores, standings, and where to listen to the games
on the Brian Broadcasting family of stations. Your Morning Sports
(35:00):
Update on sixteen, twenty ninety four to five wta W.
I'm will welch.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Friday before game day.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
It's the fight song, all right, here.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
You go, yel dear Old State, fight for that victory today.
Hit that line and tote that ball. Yeah, cross the
goal before you fall, good idea. Yeah, and then will yell, yell, yell,
yell for dear Old State. Will yell like hell yeah,
fight for Mississippi State, win that game today. Okay, do
(35:37):
they sing that like basketball games? Well, I mean it's
clearly a very football centric fight song.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Yeah, it fall before you hit the goal or whatever.
Hit the line and tote the ball.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
All right.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Well, and then they're ringing their cow billy yeah, kal bells.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
Goodness they cannot bring to Kyle Field.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
So tell us about people who have graduated.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
From Yeah, you know, obviously a lot of athletes you've got,
you know, you're Dak Prescott, Rafael Palmerow, Yeah, Bobby Bigpen,
Donald Lee. But did you know the infamous machine gun Kelly.
Not that rapper singer dude that we thought real.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
Machine gun Kelly, criminal, but the criminal.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yeah, apparently we spent some time at ol Old Mississippi State.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
What what school does that.
Speaker 10 (36:26):
Kelly?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I don't know, but he's one of the first one
that pops up on your old notable alumni.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
The list is pretty short coming from Mississippi State.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
Oh but hey, how about John Grisham, Oh, the novelist.
That's a big one.
Speaker 7 (36:39):
You know, Oxford and Old miss is where all the
novelists gather. I guess he was the lone one out
there way Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
And then you know, I listened to a couple of
barstool podcasts and one of their their main college football
expert guy is a Mississippi State guy.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
His names of Brandon H. What is his last name?
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Walker?
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Walker? There it is, And so he does a pretty
good job.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But him and our very own Texas A and M's
Casey Smith, they host a podcast together called Unnecessary Roughness.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
It's about college football.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
So, okay, you know, we fired every ballard and Mississippi
State hired him. We fired Jackie Cheryl and Mississippis State
hired him. We got rid of our jumbo tron and
Mississippi State bought it.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
Did they really?
Speaker 8 (37:22):
Really? I didn't know that A hand.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Me down right, I know, that's exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
It's still better than what half of the SEC has.
I mean, I go to LSU and I'm like, I
can't even see what is on that screen?
Speaker 8 (37:35):
What is going on? I hear you, I knew jumbo drawn?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
All right, So when's the kickoff?
Speaker 8 (37:42):
Get ready for those LED lights? Gonna be cool?
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Painted black they have.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
Yeah, yeah, they have.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Somebody, thanks to the listener, they repainted Kyle Field. So
they've got the black end zones. They've got the black
you know sidelines. So that'll be pretty cool too, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
A survey of two thousand pairs reveals widespread belief in
pregnancy myths. A third of them think heartburn means that
babies will have lots of hair.
Speaker 10 (38:07):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
There's a study that found the twenty percent think spicy
foods trigger labor. Other unusual beliefs seeing animals reveals babies,
gender and hard rock music harms fetuses. One respondent said,
if we dream about fish and someone is pregnant in
our family, oh wow, Okay, bite the myths. Seventy percent
of parents discover their baby's gender before birth, now seventy percent. Yeah, yeah,
(38:31):
more fathers.
Speaker 8 (38:32):
Don't want to paint the nursery, that's right.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Yeah, more fathers correctly guests gender than mothers, like seventy
percent versus sixty percent.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
That's interesting because usually, I mean, the mother has some idea,
you know, it depends on like is it is it high?
Speaker 8 (38:45):
Is it low?
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Right?
Speaker 6 (38:46):
I don't know all right. Of parents with gender preferences,
fifty nine percent prefer boys reg as if you had
anything to do with it. At that point, you know
they're on the way.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I was gonna say, that's the worst thing about gender
reveal videos is when that one Usually it's the dad,
but when one of them looks absolutely like disappointed, disappointed,
it's so sad.
Speaker 8 (39:09):
I agree, Like, just want a healthy baby.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
That's all I said, ten fingers, ten toes. I didn't
care what else, you know, what's going on.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
Steve Jobs picked the name Apple because he was on
a diet of nothing but fruits and vegetables when the
company was starting up.
Speaker 8 (39:23):
And while Apple must have been his favorite. That's it.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
And while we're talking about that, there was never an
iPhone two. They went from the original iPhone right to
iPhone three.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
G oh okay
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