October 7, 2025 • 33 mins
Aggie Volleyball. AI for jobs. National holidays and celebrity birthdays. Meeting with Canada. Bari Weiss gets a new job. Twiggy the water-skiing squirrel. Plus local news and sports.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
WTAW news time is five minutes after six at seventy
two degrees. Good morning, I'm Chelsea Rebirth. There is another
new state law that reduces local authority. During last week's
Brazo's County commission meeting, commissioner and former state representative Fred
Brown shared what he thought about the locally elected body
not being allowed to approve contracts of up to one
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It gives me pause the entire thing, and that this
is caused by the legislature. But when you talk about
one hundred thousand dollars, that's a lot of flexibility for
staff that doesn't have to come to us.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Commissioner Wanda Watson expressed her confidence in the county's purchasing
office just.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Knowing how good our purchasing department is. There will be
some discussion with that. They won't just be blindly decisions
being made. We will have some idea what's coming forward.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The county's purchasing director gave the thumbs up to keeping
commissioners informed of purchases that staff will make instead of
the elected body. The idea of building a new multi
purpose of vent center at Hencil Park has the interest
of Brazos County Commissioner Chuck conderla.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
The idea that something could come in like that three
sides of it boarding Brian one side facing College Station
with a beautiful entrance in on South College from both
directions in Hencil Park, which is right.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I think he called it the hole in the donut.
What a perfect analogy.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Condor La SETI doesn't want the local taxpayers to be
highly burdened by a project that has no price tag.
At this time, appearances are coming for Texas A and
M's new interim president. No dates were given by the
A and M Systems Chancellor, and a message on the
president's website of when Tommy Williams will hold a listening
tour to meet faculty, staff and students. Williams also plans
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to meet key faculty staff, student college or school division and.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Affiliate leadership teams.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Some of the critics of the now dead proposal for
the College Station City Council to sell land for a
data center. We're also not happy when council members were
not able to say anything due to non disclosure agreements.
One of the agenda items for this Thursday's council meeting
is how to handle future NDAs that.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Comes to you is really interested in a big deal
with you, a real estate deal typically, but they don't
want to have the public know all the details of
how they operate, what they do, and all of that.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Mayor John Nichols said an NDA was required to consider
the idea for that data center.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
If you want to listen to the very first sentence,
you've got to agree to an NDA. We don't always
have to do that, but in this case, very technical,
very big deal. So yes, we did agree to NDA with.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The data center, Nicols said. The city manager asked and
the council agreed that there would be a non disclosure agreement.
A correction to the story about the proposed funding of
expanding West Bryan's Lakewalk district. The proposal to be considered
at today's Brian City Council meeting to spend three point
eight million dollars does not include paying for a two
hundred space parking garage that is planned to be built.
The money will only go towards the infrastructure for the
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future construction of an office building and restaurant space. W
tanneby news time is eight minutes after six. It's seventy
two degrees news at six thirty or online at WTWU
dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty ninety four
to five WTAW.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Hey, good morning, it's Tuesday. It's the Infomaniacs. Thanks for
being with us. Let's have a look at our weather.
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the northeast will be probably down to around seventy or
so for the low temperature, except on Thursday nine one,
we'll be down to sixty two. Right now, it's seventy
two out there.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
First time ever, Aggie Volleyball will host a top ten
matchup at rit Arena. That one's coming up tomorrow night,
Kentucky coming to town. We will talk about that and
more coming up in sports.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Well, clearly that has a lot just says a lot
more about A and M's program than the other folks.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Right, sure, yeah, yeah, we've hosted obviously top ten ranked teams,
but we haven't been ranked in the top ten at
the same time as the.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It's going to be a dandy.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
So they got to how you picking a jail?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, I I have not actually watched Kentucky play
this year. They are a very very good program, and
obviously they are playing very well this year, ranked number
three in the country. But I think at Reid with
the twelfth man, I really think A and M could
pull this upset off well good. They are playing really
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well right now. You know, they stumbled a little bit
earlier in the season against SMU and TCU both ranked
opponents though so not bad losses, but they stumbled a
little bit. Ever since then, they have really just kind
of turned it around. A Finecossa Paula back to back
SEC Defensive player of the Week, Logan led Nikki, one
of the best offensive players in the country. I think
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they have a really good shot Wednesday night. You know
it just it and again with home court advantage. It
has been wild at read this year, Like already they've
had They've had the third largest crowd in program history,
and that was against like Vanderbilt. Man, So if they can,
if they can, you know, really really pack the house,
I think that that could play a huge role in
(05:09):
tomorrow's in tomorrow tomorrow's victory in tomorrow's match.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
So man, I hope we're still talking like this a
month from now, wouldn't it be saying? Because then I
guess it's basketball started by then, or it's getting.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Closed November early November.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Just you know, when when you're winning, it just makes
it a lot more and you know, makes it a
lot more fun. Yeah, gonna be a disappointing Saturday sometime
and things may not go well on the football field
or in the you know, in the volleyball court, but wow,
right now it's the Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
And again, just the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I mean, Scott, You've always said this, especially if like
a number one team you know, comes like, if you
have the opportunity to see a match like this in person, like,
why would you not want to get out there?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Go see it? Go see it?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
All?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Right?
Speaker 8 (05:52):
So there's this stuff called artificial intelligence. I don't know
if you've heard about it or not. It's been in
the news so so some companies have been so swamped
with AI generated job applications that hiring managers are looking
for some way to be able to separate the humans
(06:13):
from the machine. Yeah, and you know, we used to
laugh about the idea when, especially during COVID, even a resume.
You don't need a resume. You don't have to do
any of this stuff. You just you know, the job
market change so much. AI then comes in teaches you
how to write the perfect resume. About twenty percent of
companies say they are considering a pay to apply system.
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Oh and nearly ninety percent of them say they likely
will adopt it.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
At some point.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Interesting the idea that they might start actually requiring an
application fee.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Wow, yeah, it's like college.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
It is right exactly, so it makes sense for them.
I mean, they get buried under applications and a lot
of them may not be the fit for that job,
you know something else.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
But once again, if all you have to do is
push a button and they generates this thing.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
On the flip side, I feel like some companies are
using AI to help them filter certain things, and then
that is that's not helping actual real life humans who
are applying to jobs and may not you know, for
you know, they set this AI filter, they might be
missing out on candidates who could be really good, but
they don't have this one box checked.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
For whatever reason.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
The human element from any number of things, the human
element being removed in our lives is is just it's
not And I think.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
We've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I guess like if you're if you're looking for a
new job, you can actually hire or or I guess
use these AI assistants to look for you and apply
for you. They're saying like sometimes they don't even know
they had.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Applied for this job.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And so and then like we're saying, these companies are
just being inundated with applications that are either you know, yeah,
from these AI assistants or just you know, from humans
that don't even know they're applying, and then they're having
to go through them. Yeah, I can see on both
sides how hard it must be.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
I'm wondering now where the good old boy network is
in this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, well, it's it's becoming more necessary because I think
at least like the you have to have some kind
of connection. If you're out there just like cold, applying
to jobs. Good luck like, that's it's just not. I
don't know, it's just not. It doesn't work that way.
You have to you have to at least know somebody
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who can kind of, you know, at least push your
resume across the desk of somebody who is in charge.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
If you're the world of work, you may have been
impacted in a positive way or a negative way from
the idea of hey, wait a minute, I know somebody here,
let me get in touch with them, and that elevates
you in this in this great launch to try to
find a new job or a first job. They're suggesting
a ten dollars charge to submit the resume. Now hand,
(09:00):
it would be frustrating for people who are really desperate,
who are spending their entire day actually truly looking for jobs.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, and now spending money and you may you may
be already spending money on LinkedIn. They have different subscription
tiers do that or like indeed or any of those
you know, different job platforms. You can you can have
a membership for free, but if you want certain access
or the like message capabilities to message people who aren't
in your network, like, you have to pay more for that.
(09:30):
So you're you're now paying this you know, heightened subscription
fee on certain job posting places, and then yeah, having
to pay the ten dollars to apply and.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Not knowing if a real human is even going to
look at it.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
At the end of the day, we're talking about machines
talking to one another, and it's your future that's in
the midst of it. But anyhow, maybe applying for jobs
will be something in the future.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Info.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So I think it is even more important to have
you know, that that network. Yeah, you know, and but
you know, it doesn't always work that way.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You don't always know somebody, that's what and.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
That's why be nice to people. You never know. You
just never know.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
You make an impression on somebody. Oh that's the other thing.
Remember your parents used to tell you the first impression
is the most important. There you go, Good morning at
six nineteen the Informatias on this Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
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Speaker 6 (10:24):
You can anywhere.
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Yeah, all you gotta do is download the wtw app
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So it's pretty cool.
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Speaker 5 (10:39):
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Speaker 8 (10:40):
It is Bethtub DAYA are jacuzzie still a thing?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Ooh? Like in the home?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, like a jacuzzie tub? Yeah. I think they're probably
a thing. After owning one, I don't want to do
it again.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
It's just, you know, it's one more thing to break.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
One more thing to clean. Yeah, one more thing to clean,
that's true.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
It is chocolate covered pretzel Day. I know you think
they're healthy because they crunch.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
But they're not. And they're fun to eat. Man, they
are like the chocolate ones.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yeah. It's flower Day.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
That's kind of fun as in like the plant flower
flowers hunky. It's forgiveness and happiness day, so embrace that.
It's inner beauty day. Okay, you people will look at
yourself and go, don't worry, there's inter beauty in there.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Frop a Day, all right? What is that?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I don't like a frap egg like arapacino. It's like, yeah,
I mean it's not healthy.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, it's like an iced blended coffee slushy. Usually there's chocolate, yeah,
some kind of other you know, sugary flavoring to let's.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Make a coffee drink and then do everything we can
to disguise the taste of the coffee.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
This has changed our world. Led lights, Oh yeah, good time, man, that.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Has changed definitely changed the football stadium.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Well, and that's it. And and they were kind of
behind the curve, have done it years before. But you know,
you talk to, for instance, a city as to they've
changed their street lights to LEDs. We've done it in
our homes. The amount of electricity that we use for
lighting now is decreased tremendously, all because of LEDs. And
that's the reason we have funny looking tail lights on cars.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, that's where they're They're sometimes kind of inconvenient.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
We get to see that because we drive to work
in the dark and a lot of people miss out
on that. But I mean, how many cars have decided
their signature is going to be some out of this
world type alignment for lights that are your break lights
or your turn lights. I mean they've all got kind
of it. Used to be back in the day there
were one spot. Now they're all over the back of
the car with l propane day. Thank you, Hank Hill, Yeah,
(12:47):
very good.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Hey, that's pretty good.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
That's not bad sometimes, okay, yeah, propane and propane products,
and of course it's uh taco day. Oh yeah, we's later.
We're not going to play the song right now. We'll
put it in your ear a little bit later on.
Let's do some birthdays. Let's do some birthdays. Mookie Betts,
the Dodgers outfielder, is thirty three. Sean and Aaron Ashmore
are forty six. I'm not familiar with these guys. I
(13:11):
guess they're twins. Played well.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Sean played Iceman and the X Men movies, and agent
Mike Weston on the following time. Oh okay, yeah, you're
on the rookie. Aaron was a bounty hunter on sci
fi's kill Joy's Jimmy Olsen on Smallville, and some guy
on Warehouse thirteen.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
So it's crazy I recognize them. I didn't know there
were two of them, roughly, Yeah, no, I had. I mean,
I just quick google. I'm like, oh, yeah, he looks familiar,
and then.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah he looks familiar.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah, and I'm like, oh, oh, okay, yes they're identical.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Omar Miller is forty seven. He's Charles Green on HBO's Ballers.
I watched that a long time ago. In a minute,
Taylor Hicks is forty nine, the American Idol fifth season winner.
Now that's the guy who sings the Paul Fine Bomb song. Yes, right, yeah,
and he does. He's done a few things. You know.
He hasn't gotten giant, but he's a pretty good artist, right.
Cole Aarry Parker is fifty five. She's Giselle on Empire.
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Tony Braxton fifty eight. She a singer, of course.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Simon Cowell is sixty six years old. Wow, parts of
him mark the.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Grumpy British guy.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah, he's not as grumpy as he used to.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You know, I don't watch any of the things that
he does anymore, but I feel like he has definitely
gotten a little bit nicer than HELI.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I used to watch him because he was grumpy, and
now it's the kinder, gentler. Simon cowl is nice, but
I do miss the occasional rip there yo yo, Ma's seventy.
He's performed here a cello virtuoso, Tico Torrez. He's the
drummer from Bonjobi. He is seventy two today. Wow. Vladimir
Putin is seventy three, John don't call him cougar. Mellencamp
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is seventy four. David Hope from Kansas the Band is
seventy six. Alie North is eighty two today. Oh wow,
remember him? Of course? Joe Joy Behar is eighty three
from the view.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Is right?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah? Not retired yet, okay. Desmond Tutu was born on
this date in nineteen thirty one, of course, the South
African archbishop and civil rights leader.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
There you go, all right, six twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
WTAW news time is six thirty. It's seventy two degrees.
Good morning, I'm chelseu Reeber. Brass County commissioners last week
approved changes in purchasing office polity policies to conform with
a new state law that staff approves contracts up to
one hundred thousand dollars. Commissioner Wanda Watson says the purchase
Purchasing office won't blindly be making decisions without informing the
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elected body.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I expect that because of the character and the ethics
of that individual that oversees that department.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Commissioner Fred Brown, a former state lawmaker who was critical
of this year's legislative session, directed a comment at the
county's purchasing director, and Charles knows I'll.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Be watching him like White on Rise, So.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Just get ready to Charles, we do have a thumbs
up from the back we've.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Had continued we've had, but because there's been continuous oversight,
this won't be made in a vacuum.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Staff approval of contracts of up to one hundred thousand
dollars will reduce the number of agenda items at commission meetings,
which are now every other week, which will give employees
more time on other projects. Promoters of a new multipurpose
event center at Hinsil Park want participation from the cities
of College Station and Brian, Texas, A and M and
Brazos County. The idea of the new multipurpose event center
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was one of the topics discussed during County Commissioner Chuck
Condola's recent visit on our show.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I'm very excited to hear more about it and see
that unravel the facts, information feasibility.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Condrila said he doesn't want the local taxpayers to be
highly burdened by a project that has no price tag
at this time, but.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
You do have hot tax and a lot of it here.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
So the idea that the county and the two cities
and A and M might come together on this, to me,
that's efficiencies that I'm always happy to see in a
project that I'm excited to learn more about.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Conderla's comments followed a presentation to the College Station City
Council calling for participation from Ryan, Texas, A and M
and Breses County. A correction to the story about the
proposed funding of expanding.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
West Bryan's Lakewalk district.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
The Bryan City Council, acting as the city's Commerce and
Development Board, is scheduled today to move ahead on nearly
five million dollars of required infrastructure for an office building
and restaurant space. A correction to an earlier version of
this story is that this money will not go towards
building a two hundred space parking garage that will be
part of the expansion near the Stella Hotel. There is
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one fewer item on the agenda for this Thursday's College
Station City Council meeting. A rezoning proposal for a new
residential subdivision containing eight hundred homes has been tabled. The
location of the new development is near the city's new
fire station at Greens Prairie Road in ws Phillips Parkway.
The city spokesman says the developer plans on additional meetings
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with existing homeowners to address undisclosed concerns. The acreage is
generally bordered by Greens Prairie to the north, Windham Ranch
Road to the east, and near Sweetwater Drive to the west.
The proposal calls for the current rural zoning designation to
go to general suburban. There is still discussion about the
decision made by the College Station City Council two weeks
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ago to not sell land to build a data center.
Speaking on our show, Mayor John Nichols said, the city
manager asked and the council agreed that there would be
a non disclosure agreement that kept the initial negotiations private.
That has led to the council to put on the
agenda for this Thursday's meeting a workshop item about how
to handle future NDA requests.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Where I think the conversation will go. You have an
NDA that says, you know, we're going to go public
with this at some point, and you need to be
ready for that, but we aren't going to do it
until we get to such and such a stage.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Nichol says, the city not only receives NDAs, but the
city issues them as well.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
You'll find eighty percent of those our service providers in
our right ways that we have asked for an NDA
that they have to sign. From a public safety point
of really, you don't want everybody in the world to
know where your waterlines are and where your car all
your powers from.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
A security state allway.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
This Thursday's SNAP presentation to the Council is designed to
clarify the current processes in place with NDA's and to
facilitate a broader discussion. A San Antonio area man is
appealing a seven year prison sentence ordered by a Brazas
County District judge. Forty five year old Benjamin Marshall, of
Shirts was found guilty last week of violating probation for felony,
theft and forgery in Brass County after admitting to stealing
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more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars from a
business in Guadalupe County. Marshall was released from the Brass
County jail after posting a thirty thousand dollars appeal bond.
In Brass County, Marshall pleaded guilty and repaid seventy five
thousand dollars to a former employer between March twenty fifteen
and April twenty sixteen. Marshall also admitted to forging the
deed to his mother's home in an attempt to repay
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what he stole. Houston Congressman Wesley Hunt makes it official,
becoming the third Republican seeking the US Senate seat now
held by John Cornyn and also sought Mike ken Paxton.
There will also be a Democratic Party primary next March
between James Tall Rico and Colin Allred.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Anm has announced a.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Funeral service for Revelle nine will be held this Friday
afternoon at five at some Cindrel Field. The late University
mascot will then be laid to rest alongside the previous
eight Revelles at their memorial site outside the north end
of Kyle Field. WTAW news time is six thirty six.
It's seventy two degrees. More news at the top of
the hour, or you can go to our website WTAW
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dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty ninety four
five WTAW.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
It's six thirty eight, It's Tuesday.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
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keep that high going all the way through this week.
Again northeasterly winds which makes it nice now to around
seventy or so for tonight tomorrow night. And they're telling
us on Thursday down to sixty two degrees so almost
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like it's fall almost yeah, and it's four.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
In sports, seems like every week after a game, we
get to mention the various accolades the Agis have worn
on the field. One on the field. This week is
no different. We'll talk about that and more coming up
in sports. All right, So it's.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Taco Tuesday, Yes it is. Yeah, it's Taco Day. In fact,
just happens to be on a Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
But so here's what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
We're gonna give away some brasses, Valley Fair and Rodeo tickets,
pair of those and also a pair of Texas Renaissance
Festival tickets.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
What's your favorite taco.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Ooh, that's a good question.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I mean, because it could be heard soft. It could
be you make it at home. Could you be eating
at someplace, beef, chicken, yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
All sorts of things. Okay, your favorite taco.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We do also need your first and last name if
you want a chance to win text us nine seven
nine six nine five sixteen twenty.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
It's just that easy, and then maybe we'll find out
about something new and different. We've got surveys about tacos.
Tacos are you know, they're they're everywhere. Uh do we
care who won the Nobel Prosors Physics?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh for physics, No, really, none of them?
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Doctor Sheldon Cooper? That's the only one I know. I
don't know who that is. That was the show? Uh
oh oh that's Big Bang Theory.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I never watch you know, I never watched a minute. Really,
I know it was a big hit. Well, there's a
lot of them like that, you know. I know everybody
Loves Raymond is supposed to be a great TV show,
And I watch somebody feed Phil who is Phil was
his name? Who was the creator of the show, And
he's a funny guy. I just man just never watched
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that thing. So in the meantime, those people who are
nice north of US and talk funny, the Canadians, their
guy is coming to see our guy. They're going to
have a meeting today, the Prime Minister of Carney of
Canada and President Trump. And you know there's been some
trade tensions between the two countries.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
And it is Prime Minister Mark Carney is hoping to
secure terror for Leaf when he sits down with President
Trump today.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
Companies from Canada moving into the United States, you know,
everybody moving back into the US.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
President Trump is not previewing any major trade breakthrough with
his northern neighbor, but has delayed some tariffs on Canadian imports.
The two leaders have met a handful of times since
Carney was elected Prime Minister in March. President Trump, in
previous meetings has continued to float the idea of Canada
becoming the fifty first US state the White House. Jared
(23:24):
Halpern Fox News, Yeah, maybe not.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
You know, we've been talking about how.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
There are businesses who have decided that they may want
to try to be as friendly as they possibly can
be to the Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I think that's a good thing. To do.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
The latest in this the CDC has removed the universal
COVID nineteen vaccine recommendation. Okay, Instead they are advising vaccination
based on personal choice, and a lot of people were
not happy. Many people do a lot of many people
were unhappy when they were forced to take a specific
vaccine for COVID that they had to do it, had
(24:01):
to keep their job or whatever. So this gives you
maybe an opportunity for choice. The acting CDC Director and
HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill has approved the change, saying
quote informal consent is back. The updated schedule. Also advisors
gives advice is giving toddlers separate measles, mumps, rubella, the MMR,
(24:25):
and chicken pox shots instead of the combined vaccine that
they did before. But again, one more opportunity for people
to be their own advocates.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Decide what you want to do as far as that's concerned.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
And you know your states have some recommendations and there
are things that you can do to change those where
get around them to put your kiddo in public school.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
But this gives you a chance to you decide.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
You be the person who decides what kind of vaccine
your kiddo gets so.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
And then one more thing. There's the news media.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
The news media is trying to warm up, if you will,
to the Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Well, in a lot of places, the perception of the
news media, at least if it's not the reality, is
that the news media led leaned toward one side rather
than the other. Well, Paramount has said that it has
bought news commentary website The Free Press, which has about
a million and a half subscribers, and it has installed
its founder, Barry Weiss, as the editor in chief, a
(25:18):
new position for CBS News, which is big deal. She
was formerly with I believe the New York Times. This
is an absolutely bold stetup that they are doing in
order to change the perception of CBS News. The editor
in chief is a new role. Ellison, the partner at
CBS News president, said that Weiss will shape editorial priorities,
(25:40):
champion core values across platforms, and lead innovation in how
the organization reports and delivers the news. Weiss, when she
resigned from her previous position, did so because she said
that she had felt bullied and set aside in the
newsroom where she was previously.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
All Right, so we'll see what happens. I was watching
CNN the other day and I thought, but they took
a decidedly centrist stance. I'd kind of always more liberal.
And you know, that's the thing is, at the end
of the day, you can talk about politics all you want,
but it's it's eyeballs that you walk there. You want
to have people watching so you can sell advertising, so
you can be a going concern. And they were discussing
(26:19):
I think the Pfizer drug deal, which was a week
ago today, when they talked about how the Pfizer was
going to lower prices on a lot of drugs. And
I'm watching CNN and they had doctor Ozon, who's got
a spot in the Trump administration. I don't know exactly
what it is, but discussing this whole thing, and I
thought CNN was pretty centrist. So I know, for all
the things that Handity and those people say about CNN,
(26:40):
maybe they are also trying to move to the center
just a little bit.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
We'll see in the meantime. Wash our ears out with
Twiggy Twiggy.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Twiggy up to Twiggy is the It's not the Twiggy model,
it's the Twiggy, that is the water skiing squirrel Okay,
became a star attraction at the Carolina Classic Fair in
Winston Salem, North Carolina, drawing large crowds on opening day
last Friday. The talented performer scheduled to appear multiple times
(27:10):
daily through Sunday when the fair concludes. Twiggy continues the
legacy that began in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Yeah, wow, so there's been multiple Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
They had him at the Washington County Fair a couple
of weeks agoing with there. I don't know if it
was Twiggy, but there was a water skiing I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, there's no way this particular wine has been alive
since nineteen seventy nine, right, like how long squirrels live.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
The story behind it. When Hurricane David knocked a baby
squirrel from its nest in Central Florida, lew Ann Best
and her husband Chuck adopted that first squirrel trained it
to water ski I.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Don't know what in the world makes you think, let's
train this thing.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, but it worked.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Did you duct tape his little paws to something? In anyhow?
So they're feisty critters, Yes.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
They're rats with tails for guys. That's all they are anyway.
They trained eight water skiing squirrels total before retiring the act.
Chuck's Sun is now the guy who does it tours
apparently all over the country.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Twiggy is a family tradition.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Yeah, this is oh Man. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So apparently if they are with proper care in captivity,
they can live ten to twenty years or even more. Yeah,
but typically it's about like, well.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
You don't want to geriatric squirrel out of the water skiing.
It seem to be good.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
This is cool.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
They have a great little video on their website.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
So well, that's so mad. If you can't be angry
if you're watching a squirrel water ski I wouldn't think.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
So.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Okay, if they've had a water that's Gauntlet Throne, we
need to have them with the squirrels got to come
to Braslets County. I mean, if they've had one in
Washington County. Now, did you see the one in one?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
I tried to, but the crowd around it was too big.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
So they had what like a swimming pool that Scott
I couldn't get close enough, and I said, going on
on the is a water skiing squirrel.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, it looks like, you know, just some kind of
you know, pool situation that they're able to set up.
You know, probably just like you know, one of those
well on top of the ground.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
We'll need to ask the Brasses, Valley Fair and Rodeo
people if that can happen.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Okay, yeah, you get on that, scottle Okay, if they can.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Get Sammy kershe all here, they can get us a squirrel.
Good morning. I'm will Welch with your morning sports updates.
On sixteen, twenty ninety four, five WTA W number five
Texas A and M hosts the Florida Gators in an
SEC clash six o'clock Saturday night. Kyle Field head coach
(29:38):
Mike Elko talked about what the team will face.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
They've got an excellent group of players. They've played a
very competitive schedule. They've played in two top ten road
environments already, so they're going to be well versed in
what this is like and what it's going to be
like coming into Kyle Field coming off of a huge
top ten win last weekend, and so they'll be full
of confidence and certainly very excited to come in here
and give us their best shot. And so we're looking
(30:02):
forward to the challenge and we'll be excited to get
back under the lights in Kyle Field.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
It seems like every week after a game we get
to mention the accolades the Aggies have earned on the field.
This week is no different. Texas A and M's Cashiers
Hall and Damian Sandford earned SEC weekly honors after leading
the Aggie defense in the thirty one to nine victory
over Mississippi State. Sandford garnered SEC Defensive Player of the Week.
Howe was named SEC Defensive Line Player of the Week.
(30:28):
Texas A and M putter Tyler White was named one
of Ray's eight for Week six. The Augusta Sports Council
and the Ray Guy Award Committee announced yesterday, not to
be outdone by the football squad, Texas A and M
Volleyballs of Finna Cossack Paula earned back to back SEC
Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week
honors following a pair of dominant Roade victories. The league
(30:48):
announced yesterday Cossack Paula has earned ten weekly honors this season,
as she secured her third SEC Player of the Week
nod and seventh Defensive Player of the Week. Accolade of
her career. Following a pair of wins over South Carolina
and Alabama. She recorded fourteen blocks, thirteen kills, and seven
aces in seven cents of work. Cossack Paula and the
Aggies return to action tomorrow night to host the first
(31:10):
ever Top ten matchup at Reed Arena as they welcome
number three Kentucky. First serve set for six and you
should go because coach Elko said so Wednesday night.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
We got the top ten women's volleyball game going on
over in Rid Arena. Anybody who can get out and
support them. They got Kentucky coming into town. That'll be
a great game for them.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
The number four Texas and In women's golf team is
set to compete in the NB three match Play at
Twin Warriors Golf Club today and tomorrow for its first
match play action of the season. The Aggies look to
continue their strong start, having won titles at the Carmel
Cup and Fields of Honor Collegiate to begin the year.
The Houston Texans haven't had a lot to cheer about
this season, but Sunday's victory over the Ravens was a
(31:50):
historic one. Head coach Tamiko Ryans in the locker room
after the game.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Outstanding job. Everybody here man, outstanding job. We talked about
making history first time in his organization's history. I had
to come up here in Baltimore and get to win.
I'll stand it up.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
The Texans take their two game win streak into the
by this week. They are back in action against the
Seahawks for Monday Night Football on the twentieth. Area High
School Football features several Thursday night games this week with
out on Academy, Rudder and A and M consolidated All
in Action. Make sure to check brasssfootball dot com for schedules, scores, standings,
and where to listen to the games on the Brian
(32:27):
Broadcasting family of stations. That's your morning sports update on sixteen,
twenty ninety four to five WTAW. I'm Will Welch.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Good morning, It's the Informity Acts. Here's some weather. It's
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Speaker 5 (32:47):
Call Malick to schedule your appointment. High temperature going to
be in the lower nineties.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
It looks like all week long low temperature are going
to be near seventy but remember Thursday nine about sixty two.
That'll be really nice. It's about seventy two right now.
We're giving away tickets to the as A Valley Fair
and Rodeo and Texas Renaissance Festival.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Our question is, how do you like your taco?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, because it is National Taco Day, it's Taco Tuesday,
we want to know what tacos do you love? Texas
with your first and last name nine seventy nine six
nine five, sixteen twenty and we'll.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Talk about that some more in the next hour. Brian
Broadcasting Station WTAW College Station, Brian
WTAW news time is five minutes after six at seventy
two degrees. Good morning, I'm Chelsea Rebirth. There is another
new state law that reduces local authority. During last week's
Brazo's County commission meeting, commissioner and former state representative Fred
Brown shared what he thought about the locally elected body
not being allowed to approve contracts of up to one
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It gives me pause the entire thing, and that this
is caused by the legislature. But when you talk about
one hundred thousand dollars, that's a lot of flexibility for
staff that doesn't have to come to us.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Commissioner Wanda Watson expressed her confidence in the county's purchasing
office just.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Knowing how good our purchasing department is. There will be
some discussion with that. They won't just be blindly decisions
being made. We will have some idea what's coming forward.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The county's purchasing director gave the thumbs up to keeping
commissioners informed of purchases that staff will make instead of
the elected body. The idea of building a new multi
purpose of vent center at Hencil Park has the interest
of Brazos County Commissioner Chuck conderla.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
The idea that something could come in like that three
sides of it boarding Brian one side facing College Station
with a beautiful entrance in on South College from both
directions in Hencil Park, which is right.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I think he called it the hole in the donut.
What a perfect analogy.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Condor La SETI doesn't want the local taxpayers to be
highly burdened by a project that has no price tag.
At this time, appearances are coming for Texas A and
M's new interim president. No dates were given by the
A and M Systems Chancellor, and a message on the
president's website of when Tommy Williams will hold a listening
tour to meet faculty, staff and students. Williams also plans
(01:37):
to meet key faculty staff, student college or school division and.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Affiliate leadership teams.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Some of the critics of the now dead proposal for
the College Station City Council to sell land for a
data center. We're also not happy when council members were
not able to say anything due to non disclosure agreements.
One of the agenda items for this Thursday's council meeting
is how to handle future NDAs that.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Comes to you is really interested in a big deal
with you, a real estate deal typically, but they don't
want to have the public know all the details of
how they operate, what they do, and all of that.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Mayor John Nichols said an NDA was required to consider
the idea for that data center.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
If you want to listen to the very first sentence,
you've got to agree to an NDA. We don't always
have to do that, but in this case, very technical,
very big deal. So yes, we did agree to NDA with.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The data center, Nicols said. The city manager asked and
the council agreed that there would be a non disclosure agreement.
A correction to the story about the proposed funding of
expanding West Bryan's Lakewalk district. The proposal to be considered
at today's Brian City Council meeting to spend three point
eight million dollars does not include paying for a two
hundred space parking garage that is planned to be built.
The money will only go towards the infrastructure for the
(02:52):
future construction of an office building and restaurant space. W
tanneby news time is eight minutes after six. It's seventy
two degrees news at six thirty or online at WTWU
dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty ninety four
to five WTAW.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Hey, good morning, it's Tuesday. It's the Infomaniacs. Thanks for
being with us. Let's have a look at our weather.
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talked about yesterday. Actually kind of felt warm by the
afternoon yesterday. But anyway, we'll be at the out ninety
one ninety two something like that. Wins remaining out of
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the northeast will be probably down to around seventy or
so for the low temperature, except on Thursday nine one,
we'll be down to sixty two. Right now, it's seventy
two out there.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
First time ever, Aggie Volleyball will host a top ten
matchup at rit Arena. That one's coming up tomorrow night,
Kentucky coming to town. We will talk about that and
more coming up in sports.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Well, clearly that has a lot just says a lot
more about A and M's program than the other folks.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Right, sure, yeah, yeah, we've hosted obviously top ten ranked teams,
but we haven't been ranked in the top ten at
the same time as the.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It's going to be a dandy.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
So they got to how you picking a jail?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, I I have not actually watched Kentucky play
this year. They are a very very good program, and
obviously they are playing very well this year, ranked number
three in the country. But I think at Reid with
the twelfth man, I really think A and M could
pull this upset off well good. They are playing really
(04:28):
well right now. You know, they stumbled a little bit
earlier in the season against SMU and TCU both ranked
opponents though so not bad losses, but they stumbled a
little bit. Ever since then, they have really just kind
of turned it around. A Finecossa Paula back to back
SEC Defensive player of the Week, Logan led Nikki, one
of the best offensive players in the country. I think
(04:48):
they have a really good shot Wednesday night. You know
it just it and again with home court advantage. It
has been wild at read this year, Like already they've
had They've had the third largest crowd in program history,
and that was against like Vanderbilt. Man, So if they can,
if they can, you know, really really pack the house,
I think that that could play a huge role in
(05:09):
tomorrow's in tomorrow tomorrow's victory in tomorrow's match.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
So man, I hope we're still talking like this a
month from now, wouldn't it be saying? Because then I
guess it's basketball started by then, or it's getting.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Closed November early November.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Just you know, when when you're winning, it just makes
it a lot more and you know, makes it a
lot more fun. Yeah, gonna be a disappointing Saturday sometime
and things may not go well on the football field
or in the you know, in the volleyball court, but wow,
right now it's the Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
And again, just the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I mean, Scott, You've always said this, especially if like
a number one team you know, comes like, if you
have the opportunity to see a match like this in person, like,
why would you not want to get out there?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Go see it? Go see it?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
All?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Right?
Speaker 8 (05:52):
So there's this stuff called artificial intelligence. I don't know
if you've heard about it or not. It's been in
the news so so some companies have been so swamped
with AI generated job applications that hiring managers are looking
for some way to be able to separate the humans
(06:13):
from the machine. Yeah, and you know, we used to
laugh about the idea when, especially during COVID, even a resume.
You don't need a resume. You don't have to do
any of this stuff. You just you know, the job
market change so much. AI then comes in teaches you
how to write the perfect resume. About twenty percent of
companies say they are considering a pay to apply system.
(06:37):
Oh and nearly ninety percent of them say they likely
will adopt it.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
At some point.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Interesting the idea that they might start actually requiring an
application fee.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Wow, yeah, it's like college.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
It is right exactly, so it makes sense for them.
I mean, they get buried under applications and a lot
of them may not be the fit for that job,
you know something else.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
But once again, if all you have to do is
push a button and they generates this thing.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
On the flip side, I feel like some companies are
using AI to help them filter certain things, and then
that is that's not helping actual real life humans who
are applying to jobs and may not you know, for
you know, they set this AI filter, they might be
missing out on candidates who could be really good, but
they don't have this one box checked.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
For whatever reason.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
The human element from any number of things, the human
element being removed in our lives is is just it's
not And I think.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
We've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I guess like if you're if you're looking for a
new job, you can actually hire or or I guess
use these AI assistants to look for you and apply
for you. They're saying like sometimes they don't even know
they had.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Applied for this job.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And so and then like we're saying, these companies are
just being inundated with applications that are either you know, yeah,
from these AI assistants or just you know, from humans
that don't even know they're applying, and then they're having
to go through them. Yeah, I can see on both
sides how hard it must be.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
I'm wondering now where the good old boy network is
in this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, well, it's it's becoming more necessary because I think
at least like the you have to have some kind
of connection. If you're out there just like cold, applying
to jobs. Good luck like, that's it's just not. I
don't know, it's just not. It doesn't work that way.
You have to you have to at least know somebody
(08:34):
who can kind of, you know, at least push your
resume across the desk of somebody who is in charge.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
If you're the world of work, you may have been
impacted in a positive way or a negative way from
the idea of hey, wait a minute, I know somebody here,
let me get in touch with them, and that elevates
you in this in this great launch to try to
find a new job or a first job. They're suggesting
a ten dollars charge to submit the resume. Now hand,
(09:00):
it would be frustrating for people who are really desperate,
who are spending their entire day actually truly looking for jobs.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, and now spending money and you may you may
be already spending money on LinkedIn. They have different subscription
tiers do that or like indeed or any of those
you know, different job platforms. You can you can have
a membership for free, but if you want certain access
or the like message capabilities to message people who aren't
in your network, like, you have to pay more for that.
(09:30):
So you're you're now paying this you know, heightened subscription
fee on certain job posting places, and then yeah, having
to pay the ten dollars to apply and.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Not knowing if a real human is even going to
look at it.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
At the end of the day, we're talking about machines
talking to one another, and it's your future that's in
the midst of it. But anyhow, maybe applying for jobs
will be something in the future.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Info.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So I think it is even more important to have
you know, that that network. Yeah, you know, and but
you know, it doesn't always work that way.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You don't always know somebody, that's what and.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
That's why be nice to people. You never know. You
just never know.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
You make an impression on somebody. Oh that's the other thing.
Remember your parents used to tell you the first impression
is the most important. There you go, Good morning at
six nineteen the Informatias on this Tuesday.
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Speaker 8 (10:40):
It is Bethtub DAYA are jacuzzie still a thing?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Ooh? Like in the home?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, like a jacuzzie tub? Yeah. I think they're probably
a thing. After owning one, I don't want to do
it again.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
It's just, you know, it's one more thing to break.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
One more thing to clean. Yeah, one more thing to clean,
that's true.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
It is chocolate covered pretzel Day. I know you think
they're healthy because they crunch.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
But they're not. And they're fun to eat. Man, they
are like the chocolate ones.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yeah. It's flower Day.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
That's kind of fun as in like the plant flower
flowers hunky. It's forgiveness and happiness day, so embrace that.
It's inner beauty day. Okay, you people will look at
yourself and go, don't worry, there's inter beauty in there.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Frop a Day, all right? What is that?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I don't like a frap egg like arapacino. It's like, yeah,
I mean it's not healthy.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, it's like an iced blended coffee slushy. Usually there's chocolate, yeah,
some kind of other you know, sugary flavoring to let's.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Make a coffee drink and then do everything we can
to disguise the taste of the coffee.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
This has changed our world. Led lights, Oh yeah, good time, man, that.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Has changed definitely changed the football stadium.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Well, and that's it. And and they were kind of
behind the curve, have done it years before. But you know,
you talk to, for instance, a city as to they've
changed their street lights to LEDs. We've done it in
our homes. The amount of electricity that we use for
lighting now is decreased tremendously, all because of LEDs. And
that's the reason we have funny looking tail lights on cars.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, that's where they're They're sometimes kind of inconvenient.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
We get to see that because we drive to work
in the dark and a lot of people miss out
on that. But I mean, how many cars have decided
their signature is going to be some out of this
world type alignment for lights that are your break lights
or your turn lights. I mean they've all got kind
of it. Used to be back in the day there
were one spot. Now they're all over the back of
the car with l propane day. Thank you, Hank Hill, Yeah,
(12:47):
very good.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Hey, that's pretty good.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
That's not bad sometimes, okay, yeah, propane and propane products,
and of course it's uh taco day. Oh yeah, we's later.
We're not going to play the song right now. We'll
put it in your ear a little bit later on.
Let's do some birthdays. Let's do some birthdays. Mookie Betts,
the Dodgers outfielder, is thirty three. Sean and Aaron Ashmore
are forty six. I'm not familiar with these guys. I
(13:11):
guess they're twins. Played well.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Sean played Iceman and the X Men movies, and agent
Mike Weston on the following time. Oh okay, yeah, you're
on the rookie. Aaron was a bounty hunter on sci
fi's kill Joy's Jimmy Olsen on Smallville, and some guy
on Warehouse thirteen.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
So it's crazy I recognize them. I didn't know there
were two of them, roughly, Yeah, no, I had. I mean,
I just quick google. I'm like, oh, yeah, he looks familiar,
and then.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah he looks familiar.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah, and I'm like, oh, oh, okay, yes they're identical.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Omar Miller is forty seven. He's Charles Green on HBO's Ballers.
I watched that a long time ago. In a minute,
Taylor Hicks is forty nine, the American Idol fifth season winner.
Now that's the guy who sings the Paul Fine Bomb song. Yes, right, yeah,
and he does. He's done a few things. You know.
He hasn't gotten giant, but he's a pretty good artist, right.
Cole Aarry Parker is fifty five. She's Giselle on Empire.
(14:04):
Tony Braxton fifty eight. She a singer, of course.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Simon Cowell is sixty six years old. Wow, parts of
him mark the.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Grumpy British guy.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah, he's not as grumpy as he used to.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You know, I don't watch any of the things that
he does anymore, but I feel like he has definitely
gotten a little bit nicer than HELI.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I used to watch him because he was grumpy, and
now it's the kinder, gentler. Simon cowl is nice, but
I do miss the occasional rip there yo yo, Ma's seventy.
He's performed here a cello virtuoso, Tico Torrez. He's the
drummer from Bonjobi. He is seventy two today. Wow. Vladimir
Putin is seventy three, John don't call him cougar. Mellencamp
(14:46):
is seventy four. David Hope from Kansas the Band is
seventy six. Alie North is eighty two today. Oh wow,
remember him? Of course? Joe Joy Behar is eighty three
from the view.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Is right?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah? Not retired yet, okay. Desmond Tutu was born on
this date in nineteen thirty one, of course, the South
African archbishop and civil rights leader.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
There you go, all right, six twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
WTAW news time is six thirty. It's seventy two degrees.
Good morning, I'm chelseu Reeber. Brass County commissioners last week
approved changes in purchasing office polity policies to conform with
a new state law that staff approves contracts up to
one hundred thousand dollars. Commissioner Wanda Watson says the purchase
Purchasing office won't blindly be making decisions without informing the
(15:35):
elected body.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I expect that because of the character and the ethics
of that individual that oversees that department.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Commissioner Fred Brown, a former state lawmaker who was critical
of this year's legislative session, directed a comment at the
county's purchasing director, and Charles knows I'll.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Be watching him like White on Rise, So.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Just get ready to Charles, we do have a thumbs
up from the back we've.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Had continued we've had, but because there's been continuous oversight,
this won't be made in a vacuum.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Staff approval of contracts of up to one hundred thousand
dollars will reduce the number of agenda items at commission meetings,
which are now every other week, which will give employees
more time on other projects. Promoters of a new multipurpose
event center at Hinsil Park want participation from the cities
of College Station and Brian, Texas, A and M and
Brazos County. The idea of the new multipurpose event center
(16:25):
was one of the topics discussed during County Commissioner Chuck
Condola's recent visit on our show.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I'm very excited to hear more about it and see
that unravel the facts, information feasibility.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Condrila said he doesn't want the local taxpayers to be
highly burdened by a project that has no price tag
at this time, but.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
You do have hot tax and a lot of it here.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
So the idea that the county and the two cities
and A and M might come together on this, to me,
that's efficiencies that I'm always happy to see in a
project that I'm excited to learn more about.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Conderla's comments followed a presentation to the College Station City
Council calling for participation from Ryan, Texas, A and M
and Breses County. A correction to the story about the
proposed funding of expanding.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
West Bryan's Lakewalk district.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
The Bryan City Council, acting as the city's Commerce and
Development Board, is scheduled today to move ahead on nearly
five million dollars of required infrastructure for an office building
and restaurant space. A correction to an earlier version of
this story is that this money will not go towards
building a two hundred space parking garage that will be
part of the expansion near the Stella Hotel. There is
(17:29):
one fewer item on the agenda for this Thursday's College
Station City Council meeting. A rezoning proposal for a new
residential subdivision containing eight hundred homes has been tabled. The
location of the new development is near the city's new
fire station at Greens Prairie Road in ws Phillips Parkway.
The city spokesman says the developer plans on additional meetings
(17:49):
with existing homeowners to address undisclosed concerns. The acreage is
generally bordered by Greens Prairie to the north, Windham Ranch
Road to the east, and near Sweetwater Drive to the west.
The proposal calls for the current rural zoning designation to
go to general suburban. There is still discussion about the
decision made by the College Station City Council two weeks
(18:11):
ago to not sell land to build a data center.
Speaking on our show, Mayor John Nichols said, the city
manager asked and the council agreed that there would be
a non disclosure agreement that kept the initial negotiations private.
That has led to the council to put on the
agenda for this Thursday's meeting a workshop item about how
to handle future NDA requests.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Where I think the conversation will go. You have an
NDA that says, you know, we're going to go public
with this at some point, and you need to be
ready for that, but we aren't going to do it
until we get to such and such a stage.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Nichol says, the city not only receives NDAs, but the
city issues them as well.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
You'll find eighty percent of those our service providers in
our right ways that we have asked for an NDA
that they have to sign. From a public safety point
of really, you don't want everybody in the world to
know where your waterlines are and where your car all
your powers from.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
A security state allway.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
This Thursday's SNAP presentation to the Council is designed to
clarify the current processes in place with NDA's and to
facilitate a broader discussion. A San Antonio area man is
appealing a seven year prison sentence ordered by a Brazas
County District judge. Forty five year old Benjamin Marshall, of
Shirts was found guilty last week of violating probation for felony,
theft and forgery in Brass County after admitting to stealing
(19:26):
more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars from a
business in Guadalupe County. Marshall was released from the Brass
County jail after posting a thirty thousand dollars appeal bond.
In Brass County, Marshall pleaded guilty and repaid seventy five
thousand dollars to a former employer between March twenty fifteen
and April twenty sixteen. Marshall also admitted to forging the
deed to his mother's home in an attempt to repay
(19:48):
what he stole. Houston Congressman Wesley Hunt makes it official,
becoming the third Republican seeking the US Senate seat now
held by John Cornyn and also sought Mike ken Paxton.
There will also be a Democratic Party primary next March
between James Tall Rico and Colin Allred.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Anm has announced a.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Funeral service for Revelle nine will be held this Friday
afternoon at five at some Cindrel Field. The late University
mascot will then be laid to rest alongside the previous
eight Revelles at their memorial site outside the north end
of Kyle Field. WTAW news time is six thirty six.
It's seventy two degrees. More news at the top of
the hour, or you can go to our website WTAW
(20:26):
dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty ninety four
five WTAW.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
It's six thirty eight, It's Tuesday.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
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two or so for a high temperature again today, probably
keep that high going all the way through this week.
Again northeasterly winds which makes it nice now to around
seventy or so for tonight tomorrow night. And they're telling
us on Thursday down to sixty two degrees so almost
(20:57):
like it's fall almost yeah, and it's four.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
In sports, seems like every week after a game, we
get to mention the various accolades the Agis have worn
on the field. One on the field. This week is
no different. We'll talk about that and more coming up
in sports. All right, So it's.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Taco Tuesday, Yes it is. Yeah, it's Taco Day. In fact,
just happens to be on a Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
But so here's what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
We're gonna give away some brasses, Valley Fair and Rodeo tickets,
pair of those and also a pair of Texas Renaissance
Festival tickets.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
What's your favorite taco.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Ooh, that's a good question.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I mean, because it could be heard soft. It could
be you make it at home. Could you be eating
at someplace, beef, chicken, yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
All sorts of things. Okay, your favorite taco.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We do also need your first and last name if
you want a chance to win text us nine seven
nine six nine five sixteen twenty.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
It's just that easy, and then maybe we'll find out
about something new and different. We've got surveys about tacos.
Tacos are you know, they're they're everywhere. Uh do we
care who won the Nobel Prosors Physics?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh for physics, No, really, none of them?
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Doctor Sheldon Cooper? That's the only one I know. I
don't know who that is. That was the show? Uh
oh oh that's Big Bang Theory.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I never watch you know, I never watched a minute. Really,
I know it was a big hit. Well, there's a
lot of them like that, you know. I know everybody
Loves Raymond is supposed to be a great TV show,
And I watch somebody feed Phil who is Phil was
his name? Who was the creator of the show, And
he's a funny guy. I just man just never watched
(22:30):
that thing. So in the meantime, those people who are
nice north of US and talk funny, the Canadians, their
guy is coming to see our guy. They're going to
have a meeting today, the Prime Minister of Carney of
Canada and President Trump. And you know there's been some
trade tensions between the two countries.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
And it is Prime Minister Mark Carney is hoping to
secure terror for Leaf when he sits down with President
Trump today.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
Companies from Canada moving into the United States, you know,
everybody moving back into the US.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
President Trump is not previewing any major trade breakthrough with
his northern neighbor, but has delayed some tariffs on Canadian imports.
The two leaders have met a handful of times since
Carney was elected Prime Minister in March. President Trump, in
previous meetings has continued to float the idea of Canada
becoming the fifty first US state the White House. Jared
(23:24):
Halpern Fox News, Yeah, maybe not.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
You know, we've been talking about how.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
There are businesses who have decided that they may want
to try to be as friendly as they possibly can
be to the Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I think that's a good thing. To do.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
The latest in this the CDC has removed the universal
COVID nineteen vaccine recommendation. Okay, Instead they are advising vaccination
based on personal choice, and a lot of people were
not happy. Many people do a lot of many people
were unhappy when they were forced to take a specific
vaccine for COVID that they had to do it, had
(24:01):
to keep their job or whatever. So this gives you
maybe an opportunity for choice. The acting CDC Director and
HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill has approved the change, saying
quote informal consent is back. The updated schedule. Also advisors
gives advice is giving toddlers separate measles, mumps, rubella, the MMR,
(24:25):
and chicken pox shots instead of the combined vaccine that
they did before. But again, one more opportunity for people
to be their own advocates.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Decide what you want to do as far as that's concerned.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
And you know your states have some recommendations and there
are things that you can do to change those where
get around them to put your kiddo in public school.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
But this gives you a chance to you decide.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
You be the person who decides what kind of vaccine
your kiddo gets so.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
And then one more thing. There's the news media.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
The news media is trying to warm up, if you will,
to the Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Well, in a lot of places, the perception of the
news media, at least if it's not the reality, is
that the news media led leaned toward one side rather
than the other. Well, Paramount has said that it has
bought news commentary website The Free Press, which has about
a million and a half subscribers, and it has installed
its founder, Barry Weiss, as the editor in chief, a
(25:18):
new position for CBS News, which is big deal. She
was formerly with I believe the New York Times. This
is an absolutely bold stetup that they are doing in
order to change the perception of CBS News. The editor
in chief is a new role. Ellison, the partner at
CBS News president, said that Weiss will shape editorial priorities,
(25:40):
champion core values across platforms, and lead innovation in how
the organization reports and delivers the news. Weiss, when she
resigned from her previous position, did so because she said
that she had felt bullied and set aside in the
newsroom where she was previously.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
All Right, so we'll see what happens. I was watching
CNN the other day and I thought, but they took
a decidedly centrist stance. I'd kind of always more liberal.
And you know, that's the thing is, at the end
of the day, you can talk about politics all you want,
but it's it's eyeballs that you walk there. You want
to have people watching so you can sell advertising, so
you can be a going concern. And they were discussing
(26:19):
I think the Pfizer drug deal, which was a week
ago today, when they talked about how the Pfizer was
going to lower prices on a lot of drugs. And
I'm watching CNN and they had doctor Ozon, who's got
a spot in the Trump administration. I don't know exactly
what it is, but discussing this whole thing, and I
thought CNN was pretty centrist. So I know, for all
the things that Handity and those people say about CNN,
(26:40):
maybe they are also trying to move to the center
just a little bit.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
We'll see in the meantime. Wash our ears out with
Twiggy Twiggy.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Twiggy up to Twiggy is the It's not the Twiggy model,
it's the Twiggy, that is the water skiing squirrel Okay,
became a star attraction at the Carolina Classic Fair in
Winston Salem, North Carolina, drawing large crowds on opening day
last Friday. The talented performer scheduled to appear multiple times
(27:10):
daily through Sunday when the fair concludes. Twiggy continues the
legacy that began in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Yeah, wow, so there's been multiple Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
They had him at the Washington County Fair a couple
of weeks agoing with there. I don't know if it
was Twiggy, but there was a water skiing I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, there's no way this particular wine has been alive
since nineteen seventy nine, right, like how long squirrels live.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
The story behind it. When Hurricane David knocked a baby
squirrel from its nest in Central Florida, lew Ann Best
and her husband Chuck adopted that first squirrel trained it
to water ski I.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Don't know what in the world makes you think, let's
train this thing.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, but it worked.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Did you duct tape his little paws to something? In anyhow?
So they're feisty critters, Yes.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
They're rats with tails for guys. That's all they are anyway.
They trained eight water skiing squirrels total before retiring the act.
Chuck's Sun is now the guy who does it tours
apparently all over the country.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Twiggy is a family tradition.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Yeah, this is oh Man. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So apparently if they are with proper care in captivity,
they can live ten to twenty years or even more. Yeah,
but typically it's about like, well.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
You don't want to geriatric squirrel out of the water skiing.
It seem to be good.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
This is cool.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
They have a great little video on their website.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
So well, that's so mad. If you can't be angry
if you're watching a squirrel water ski I wouldn't think.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
So.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Okay, if they've had a water that's Gauntlet Throne, we
need to have them with the squirrels got to come
to Braslets County. I mean, if they've had one in
Washington County. Now, did you see the one in one?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
I tried to, but the crowd around it was too big.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
So they had what like a swimming pool that Scott
I couldn't get close enough, and I said, going on
on the is a water skiing squirrel.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, it looks like, you know, just some kind of
you know, pool situation that they're able to set up.
You know, probably just like you know, one of those
well on top of the ground.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
We'll need to ask the Brasses, Valley Fair and Rodeo
people if that can happen.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Okay, yeah, you get on that, scottle Okay, if they can.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Get Sammy kershe all here, they can get us a squirrel.
Good morning. I'm will Welch with your morning sports updates.
On sixteen, twenty ninety four, five WTA W number five
Texas A and M hosts the Florida Gators in an
SEC clash six o'clock Saturday night. Kyle Field head coach
(29:38):
Mike Elko talked about what the team will face.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
They've got an excellent group of players. They've played a
very competitive schedule. They've played in two top ten road
environments already, so they're going to be well versed in
what this is like and what it's going to be
like coming into Kyle Field coming off of a huge
top ten win last weekend, and so they'll be full
of confidence and certainly very excited to come in here
and give us their best shot. And so we're looking
(30:02):
forward to the challenge and we'll be excited to get
back under the lights in Kyle Field.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
It seems like every week after a game we get
to mention the accolades the Aggies have earned on the field.
This week is no different. Texas A and M's Cashiers
Hall and Damian Sandford earned SEC weekly honors after leading
the Aggie defense in the thirty one to nine victory
over Mississippi State. Sandford garnered SEC Defensive Player of the Week.
Howe was named SEC Defensive Line Player of the Week.
(30:28):
Texas A and M putter Tyler White was named one
of Ray's eight for Week six. The Augusta Sports Council
and the Ray Guy Award Committee announced yesterday, not to
be outdone by the football squad, Texas A and M
Volleyballs of Finna Cossack Paula earned back to back SEC
Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week
honors following a pair of dominant Roade victories. The league
(30:48):
announced yesterday Cossack Paula has earned ten weekly honors this season,
as she secured her third SEC Player of the Week
nod and seventh Defensive Player of the Week. Accolade of
her career. Following a pair of wins over South Carolina
and Alabama. She recorded fourteen blocks, thirteen kills, and seven
aces in seven cents of work. Cossack Paula and the
Aggies return to action tomorrow night to host the first
(31:10):
ever Top ten matchup at Reed Arena as they welcome
number three Kentucky. First serve set for six and you
should go because coach Elko said so Wednesday night.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
We got the top ten women's volleyball game going on
over in Rid Arena. Anybody who can get out and
support them. They got Kentucky coming into town. That'll be
a great game for them.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
The number four Texas and In women's golf team is
set to compete in the NB three match Play at
Twin Warriors Golf Club today and tomorrow for its first
match play action of the season. The Aggies look to
continue their strong start, having won titles at the Carmel
Cup and Fields of Honor Collegiate to begin the year.
The Houston Texans haven't had a lot to cheer about
this season, but Sunday's victory over the Ravens was a
(31:50):
historic one. Head coach Tamiko Ryans in the locker room
after the game.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Outstanding job. Everybody here man, outstanding job. We talked about
making history first time in his organization's history. I had
to come up here in Baltimore and get to win.
I'll stand it up.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
The Texans take their two game win streak into the
by this week. They are back in action against the
Seahawks for Monday Night Football on the twentieth. Area High
School Football features several Thursday night games this week with
out on Academy, Rudder and A and M consolidated All
in Action. Make sure to check brasssfootball dot com for schedules, scores, standings,
and where to listen to the games on the Brian
(32:27):
Broadcasting family of stations. That's your morning sports update on sixteen,
twenty ninety four to five WTAW. I'm Will Welch.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Good morning, It's the Informity Acts. Here's some weather. It's
brought to you this morning by Malik. Be prepared for
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Speaker 5 (32:47):
Call Malick to schedule your appointment. High temperature going to
be in the lower nineties.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
It looks like all week long low temperature are going
to be near seventy but remember Thursday nine about sixty two.
That'll be really nice. It's about seventy two right now.
We're giving away tickets to the as A Valley Fair
and Rodeo and Texas Renaissance Festival.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Our question is, how do you like your taco?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, because it is National Taco Day, it's Taco Tuesday,
we want to know what tacos do you love? Texas
with your first and last name nine seventy nine six
nine five, sixteen twenty and we'll.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Talk about that some more in the next hour. Brian
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