The Infomaniacs: October 7, 2025 (7:00am)

Favorite tacos. Most common bugs in the house. Cleaning fairies. Modern parenting. Life-saving gumbo. Worst taco toppings.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
WTAW news time is three minutes after seven.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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seven to seven light. Good morning. I'm Chelsea Rebirth. There's
another new state law that reduces local authority. During last
week's Brazos County commission meeting, Commissioner and former state representative
Fred Brown shared what he thought about the locally elected

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body not being allowed to approve contracts of up to
one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
It gives me pause.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
The entire thing, and that's 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 (00:45):
Missioner Wanda Watson expressed her confidence in the county's purchasing
office just.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
Knowing how good our purchasing department is. There will be
some discussion with that. It won't just be blindly decisions
being made. We will have some idea what's coming.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
The County's purchasing director gave a thumbs up to keeping
commissioners informed of purchases that staff will make instead of
the elected body. The idea of building a new multipurpose
events center at Hensil Park has the interest of Brass
County Commissioner Chuck Coonderla.

Speaker 6 (01:13):
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 3 (01:25):
I think he called it the hole in the donut.

Speaker 7 (01:26):
What a perfect analogy.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Conderless that he 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
to meet with key faculty staff, student college school division,

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and affiliate leadership teams. Some of the critics of the
now dead proposal for the College Station City Council to
sell land for a data center were also not happy
when council members were not able to say anything due
to non disclosure agreements.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
One of the agenda items.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
For this Thursday's council meeting is how to handle future NDAs.

Speaker 8 (02:09):
Person that 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.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
And all of that.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Mayor John Nichols said an NDA was required to consider
the idea for that data center.

Speaker 8 (02:27):
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.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
With the data center, Nichols 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 Bran City Council meeting to spend
three point eight million dollars does not include paying for
a two hundred space parking garage that is to be

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built the money will only go towards the infrastructure for
the future construction of an office building and restaurant space.
WTAW news time is six minutes after seven. It's seventy
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I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.

Speaker 7 (03:22):
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chilly this morning. It's sixty two.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
All right, sports, we've got a kickoff time for Ags
versus Pigs. That's going to be two thirty in Fayetteville.
After this weekend's game versus Florida. We'll talk about that
and more coming up in sports.

Speaker 7 (03:57):
Wow, that's prime time for Arkansas.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, I think it's prime time for A and M.

Speaker 7 (04:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, I think it helped that we're playing that.

Speaker 7 (04:05):
Yeah, that's probably you know, I can remember what it
was the other way around.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh sure, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
She had a lot of eleven o'clock kickoffs and stuff
like that. So they asked, Oh, by the way, so
we're giving away giving away passes to Texas Renaissance Festival
wals with the brass of Valley Fair and Rodeo. Pair
to each of them. Our question is what's your favorite taco?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, text us in. Go ahead and include your first
and last name if you want to win. Somebody said,
my favorite taco is a soft chicken taco with guacamole.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Somebody else said Maria MIA's crispy beef.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh all right.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Somebody said hard tacos just make at home, Okay, love that.
My favorite taco is from a restaurant and Corpus Christy
called Linda's soft Taco with carne of soada, lettuce and tomatoes.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
They have the best flower tortillas I've ever had. Yeah,
so yeah, go ahead and text us.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
It can be as specific as that, it can just
be you know, you like crunchy tacos, let us know
nine seventy nine, six nine five, sixteen twenty.

Speaker 7 (04:57):
You always wanted to know the most common bu and
other pests that you find in your home, didn't you?
Oh for sure?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Because you don't want to be able to show once
I'm done with them.

Speaker 7 (05:07):
A new poll found thirty percent of US Americans have
spared the life of a bug or a pest in
the past year. Have you done that?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Have I spared?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yes, the life?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:17):
For sure. All right, that's how I mean. And that's
how many that we really, you know, we've done ourselves.
Sometimes they escape, they run away. Hate finding bug bodies,
don't you it's the worst thing. Two thirds say that
they or someone else has actually manually killed a pest
in the last twelve months. Manually killed, I guess, as

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opposed to what's spraying them with budgets?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Baby?

Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah. So here we go. These are the top ten
pests that Americans see in their homes most often. Number
one flies, oh yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
That.

Speaker 7 (05:56):
Spiders is second, Then comes ants, mosquitoes, and gnats. Okay,
nats in your home. I haven't. I don't know, Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Sure, I guess, especially if you've got like plants sometimes
attract that.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Sure a teenager leaves some food out someplace nats and flies.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah yeah, I was gonna say, my mom, she'll she
has a lot of house plants, especially in this one
area of the kitchen, and especially during the summer, Like
I feel like the nats can get pretty bad, and
so she puts out just like little dishes of I
just think it's like it's like a vinegar solution. It
attracts them and they just you know, and then they die.

Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yeah, they're done.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
But she definitely yeah, and I think, you know, again,
once the weather cools off, they don't get they're not
as bad. But but yeah, pouse plants can definitely be
Is the.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Weather going to ever cool off? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (06:46):
Yeah? Oh yeah sure. So anyway, so it's fly, spiders, ants, mosquitoes, nets.
Then comes moth wasp bees, and at number nine is cockroaches.
I don't know, maybe I'm thinking of myself as a
college student, but I mean I've lived with cockroaches, right,
I mean sorry, that was a guy, Oh yeah, a
guy livingly sure, they can.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yes, I did spare the life of one this morning,
though it was in the parking lot.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Not in my house lot.

Speaker 7 (07:13):
No, no, no, no, it.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Was in the parking lot and I just happened to
walk right next to it and instead of, you know,
taking the extra step to the side, I just left it.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I let it be.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
But no, in the house, nothing.

Speaker 7 (07:25):
Lives the day the one that now it wasn't that's
not mentioned here, which is a problem. Sometimes it's fleas, Oh,
I mean, please can be a problem.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I thought about this the other day when I when
I lived with the boys for those five glorious years,
we we all three at one point had dogs and
there's spent a lot more time outside. And I, however,
was the only human that would end up with flea bites.
And yeah, we dealt with I have dealt with flees

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multiple times. Uh not not so living alone. It's amazing
what happens when you leave living a house with boys.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
But but yeah, but it's not fleas are not fine.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
I had a flea up infestation at a house in
Fayeville that I was sharing with a couple other people
that required them the bombs. Yep, I think we doubled
the dose and stayed away for a couple of days.

Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah, And what will happen is if you've got a
pet and it has fleas, Okay, it stays on the
pet correct until it comes over and maybe bite you
one or two times.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yep, they really like ankles and.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
Feet, they do. You move people out of a house
and the fleas have a chance to be fleas for
like thirty days, and you walk in there and you
will get absolutely savaged by those things because they haven't
had anything to feed on, and it ends up being you.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh gotcha.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
So that's uh. And so every once in a while
you get the occasional bite. But they're more fleas in
there than you know. It's just they're only hitting you
every once in a while. After all of those, then
comes mice in at outside the top ten as a
matter of fact. Oh okay, and then the aforementioned fleas.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
We had those two.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, it's amazing how many critters I don't have in
my apartment there I live alone.

Speaker 7 (09:08):
Now that you don't have those, guys, it is a
seven sixteen. It's if maniacs texter scorpions.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Was Yeah, and that's because obviously those are probably not
common across the entire country. Yeah, but I do know
that those can definitely find their way in around here.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
My dog was really good at pointing them out. And
then I'd go stomp off.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah that's what this person texted in, said, the doggle
corner it and then I manually address it.

Speaker 7 (09:34):
Oh, manually addressed. I like that. You know, I've only
been stung about three times by them, but you know,
I got to say that generally during the summertime, I mean,
will have to kill four or five in the house.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh really, yeah, yeah, she all about in the country.
I've never had one in the house ever. Ever, now
I have, I have been in. The only experience I've.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Ever had with one. I was in high school.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I was at a friend's house who lived out in Curtain,
so they were out in the country, and we had
we had created this like blanket palette on the floor.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
We were watching TV.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
We had gotten the blankets from one of the closets,
and that's where they like to hide in those kinds
of spots. And we're sitting there like laying on our
stomachs watching the TV, and out of the corner of
my eye, I see the scorpion on my friend's shoulder,
like it has crawled up on her, and I take
my pillow and I just smack her.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
And she's like, what was that for?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
And I'm like, scorpion and like I'm the city kid,
so I'm like, oh my god. And so she she
sees it, takes the remote control and like a boss,
just slams it into the scorpion.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, but that is the only time I have ever
even seen one.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
They're just so wicked and prehistoric looking.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh my god, like little dinosaurs.

Speaker 7 (10:51):
Yeah, exactly, a little and they'll, you know, they'll think
you want to do so I know, you don't have
to worry about these bugs and critters because you have
cleaning fairies once a month.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's glorious. Yes, my cleaning fairies come today. And I
feel like maybe I've just been spending a lot of
time in my apartment lately because it's just it's it's
it's feeling a little bit grungy. Here. You get out, girl, No,
I know, but but yeah, no, the cleaning fairies come today,
and yes, that is a big reason why the critters
stay out. So it's it's nice to have the professional

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cleaning done every now and then.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
All right, so the TikTok is here for things just
like this. I guess the newest health hack going around
is the fifty jump trend. Have you heard about this?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
The fifty jump trend?

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Oh, like if you wake up and you jump fifty times?

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I have heard about it.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, I feel like we've.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Talked about it on the show, maybe because I have
heard about it as well.

Speaker 7 (11:46):
You know, if there is one, and people will tell
you if there is one thing you do for yourself,
just squat, just you know, squat like twenty times.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Can you do that?

Speaker 7 (11:56):
And if you can, that's great. If you can't, maybe
you ought to work on it. But yeah, this is it.
The minute you get out of bed, you just jump
up fifty times.

Speaker 9 (12:03):
Man.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, okay, I don't.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
Know that I could do that. I mean I guess I.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Could, but yeah, you're just and they're not.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
You know, when you say jump, you're hopping like it's
just like a little like bounce. Okay, we're not asking
you to jump on a box or a chair.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
After nine, jackieould say stop just quick.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
I have a feeling the wife would would pipe up
there about jump number three at three thirty in the morning.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
You would be even better if you had a jump rope.

Speaker 7 (12:28):
Oh that could work up trampoline.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah, sure, just get the blood flowing.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
Yeah, you know, I jump rope. So was it Sean
who was starting to jump?

Speaker 9 (12:39):
It was me?

Speaker 2 (12:40):
It was me.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yes, I downloaded the app and I got the membership
and then I sprained my ankle.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh that's right, but I'm very good at jump roping.
Are not to the app?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay, no, but I jump rope at CrossFit often and
I'm really good at it.

Speaker 7 (12:55):
See, I can't do that and don't want to try.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's nothing I've ever been.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
It is such an incredible workout.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
I know it you.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
And its it amazes me.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
So when I first joined this gym, one of my
coaches and I actually grew up together. We went to
elementary school together and during one of the one of
the exercises one day, we had jump rope. So we
were warming up and you know, I'm like pretty good
at it and other people are not.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
And he looked at me, he goes, that's that jump
rope for heart. We used to do.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
So in elementary school, we used to do this fundraiser
called jump rope for heart, and I was like, you're
so right, It's like it never left me.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I was, I've just always been a good jump roper.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
But it's amazing when you watch other people who have
absolutely no coordination with it whatsoever.

Speaker 7 (13:41):
And once your brain learns it, maybe yeah, yeah, I mean,
I'm an athlete.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Let's be real, what what.

Speaker 7 (13:48):
Do I do in basketball? They've used to have these
jump rope kids who came over from Huntsville.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh my gosh. Yes, they still do that.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
They still they at least last year one of the
halftime performances.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't know if it was the unfilled group, but
I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
And they have the kids who come and they do
like the double dutch and like all of the different
tricks and stuff.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's amazing.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
Well they are, Yeah, we'll see, but it's not.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's hard on your joints.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
It really is, because you're I mean, you're just jumping
up and down a lot.

Speaker 7 (14:16):
That's why I figured that's just not going to be
a box check for me. Seven twenty three. It's the
informating acts on a Tuesday, classic childhood disciplines like writing
thank you notes or clearing dinner plates are disappearing due
to you parents changing the way that you are parenting.

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They study one thousand parents with kids ages zero to
ten and it showed that gen Z and millennial parents
now emphasize child health and well being over traditional methods.
So did you have to clear the table when you're
growing up?

Speaker 8 (14:53):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (14:53):
Yeah, clear the table or the plate? The clear said,
clear the plate? Well, clear the place? Yeah, table, mean
that's what the dinner.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Oh I think they ma like eat all of our food.

Speaker 7 (15:01):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, we're tom sorry, we're
talking about yeah, cleaning up the plates and taking them
to the sink.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
So sure.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
That.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
So they say that nearly half have chosen the gentle parenting,
avoiding punishments while fostering calm, non judgmental environments that prevent
blame or shade.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
May I'm not a parent, I have I have no
skin in this game, but you know, I will say
I do have a lot of friends who are parents,
and and you know, millennial and so at least the
people I know, and I just I think this is
a little bit where we grew up and being in Texas,
it's a little bit different than maybe some of these

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like national articles and surveys. Because my friends are still
pretty tough on their kiddos. Well, and I say tough
in like the best way. Like they're they they have
high expectations for their kids. Sure include my seven year
old niece. Like, ah, there you go, I'm around often.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
What about it? Well, the wife and I have got
a really nice good cop bad cop thing going on, okay,
and we had expectations there you I would be the
bad cop.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh okay.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Sometimes they'll switch rolls. We'll switch rolls every so often,
depending on the circumstances in the situation. But no, I'm
very much Ah. I would say I leaned toward the
stricter side of parenting. We had high expectations for our
children and then you know, thank goodness, they've they've pretty
well met them.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
So yeah, and I don't for me, not so much.
I could have been a harder parent. But also I
was a single parent. My kids lived with me for
a period of time, and so from that standpoint, I
was the only one there to take care of that situation.
And yes, there were expectations, and I did it as
much by example as anything else. You need to develop
a good work asche you need to be there and
do the things that you promised that you'll do at

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the time you're supposed to do them. I don't know
that we necessarily went through the discipline of okay, guys,
let's clean the place off the table or something like that.
But the idea of an expectation is very very important.
I mean, I think that really is. And you can
you can still be a soft parent if you want
to gentle parenting as they call it, but still the
idea of expectation is what you need to do one

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other thing. And this was also interesting that they bring
in modern parents are more protective now, with only eight
percent using latch key parenting. Now, that used to be
a thing.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, I was a latch key kid.

Speaker 7 (17:27):
Okay, that's that used to be a thing, and that
was the idea that both parents had to work, and
that was a sea change in the American society because
it used to be mom was at home, and when
I was growing up, that's it. My mom was home,
my dad worked, and my mom didn't for a long
long time until I was almost almost out of the house.
But now because everything costs so much more and there's

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so much more pressure to be able to achieve at
a certain point in your life. Then you end up
with kids who literally had a key to the house
that they would get in and let themselves in and
take care of themselves. That's thus the latchkey kid. So
that sort of stuff is kind of different. Other declining
practices include homemade baby food. Didn't know that even really

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happened that much anymore, rewards charts. That's interesting, And imagine
this letting children experience boredom.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
I think that's a great thing.

Speaker 7 (18:24):
I think it is too anyway. So that's at least
one study having to do with the idea that modern
approach to parenting has made a change in the kids.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
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Speaker 2 (18:46):
Good morning, I'm Chelsea Rebirth.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Last week, Brownso's County Commissioners approved changes in purchasing office
policies to conform with a new state law that staff
approves contracts up to one hundred thousand dollars. Commissioner Wanda
Watson says the pact per office won't blindly be making
decisions without informing the elected body.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
I expect that because of the character and the ethics
of that individual that oversees that department.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
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.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Charles knows I'll be watching him like White on rise.
So just get ready to Charles, we do have a
thumbs up from the back we've.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Had continued we've had, but because there's been continuous oversight,
this won't be made in a vacuum.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Staff approval of contracts 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. The idea of a new
multi purpose of end center at Hensil Park was one
of the topics discussed during County Commissioner Chuck Condrawa's recent.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Visit on our show.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
I'm very excited to hear more about it and see
that unravel the facts, information, feasibility.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Condor less that he doesn't want the local taxpayers to
be highly burdened by a project that has no price
tag at this time, but you do.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Have hot tax and a lot of it here.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
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 (20:13):
Conderala's comments followed a presentation to the College Station City
Council calling for participation from Brian, Texas, A and M
and Brass County. A correction to the story about the
proposed funding of expanding West Bryan's Lakewalk district. The Brian
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.

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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 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 development

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is near the city's new fire station at greenspri Road
in ws Phillips Parkway. A city spokesman says the developer
plans on additional meetings 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

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discussion about the decision made by the College Station City
Council two weeks 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

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item about how to handle future NDA requests.

Speaker 8 (21:45):
Where I think the conversation will go. You have an
NDA that says, you know, we're going to go public
with us 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 2 (21:56):
Nichol says.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
The city not only receives NDA's, but the city issues
them as well.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
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 water lines are and where your carrier
all your powers from.

Speaker 7 (22:16):
A security stay all y.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
This Thursday SNAP presentation to the Council is designed to
clarify the current processes in place with NDAs and to
facilitate a broader discussion.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
A San Antonio area.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Man is appealing a seven year prison sentence ordered by
a Brass 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 more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
from a business in Guadaloupe County. Marshall was released from
the Brazos County jail after posting a thirty thousand dollars

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appeal bond in Brazos County. Marshall pleaded guilty and repaid
seventy five thousand dollars to a former employer. Marshall also
admitted to forging the deed to his mother's home in
an attempt to repay 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 by Ken Paxton. There will also be a Democratic

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Party primary next March between James Tallerico and Colin Allred.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
A and m is announced.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
A funeral service for Revelly nine will be held this
Friday afternoon at five at Simpson drill Field. The late
University mascot will then be laid to rest alongside the
previous eight rebelles at their memorial site outside the north
end of Kyle Field. WTAW news time is seven thirty seven.
It is seventy one degrees. News is presented by American
Momentum Bank. More news at the top of the hour

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or online at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reeber for
sixteen twenty ninety four to five wtaw.

Speaker 7 (23:45):
It's Tuesday, it's seven thirty eight. Let's have a look
at our weather. It's brought to you by Malick. Be
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and whole home backup generators from Generak. Call Madick to
schedule your appointment. High temperature are going to be in
the lower nineties today, northeasterly winds going to continue that
really all week long. Been okay, could use some rain,
that'd be all right, going to be down in the seventies.

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But Thursday night be even schurllier than that.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Sports, well, Friday Night Light's going to begin on a
cool Thursday night this week. Yeah, we've got several area
high school football teams in action. Of course, everything you
need to know can be found at Brasssfootball dot com,
including where to listen to the games on the Brian
Broadcasting family of stations. We've got giveaways. We're doing the
Brass Valley Fair in Texas Renaissance Festival tickets, and we're

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asking the question, what is your favorite taco? What do
you like on your favorite taco?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, let us know it's National Taco Day, It's Taco Tuesday,
It's it's all of the above, and so we want
to know what is your favorite taco. We do need
your first and last name. If you want a chance
to win those tickets, just text us nine seventy nine,
six nine five, sixteen twenty.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, tacos, as we all know, can be life changing,
but sometimes gumbo can be life saving. Right. This happened
at the Shrimp Basket in Pensacola, Florida, a nice little restaurant.
Every single day for over a decade, an elderly gentleman
would come in right at eleven o'clock sharp and sit
down and have a cup of gumbo. Donnelle Stalwart, a

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cook at the Tree right cook there at the Shrimp Basket.
Mister Stalwarts said he was a regular visitor, like everybody's grandpa.
They liked him so much that a few months ago
they even threw him a party to celebrate his seventy
eighth birthday. Well earlier this month, he stopped showing up.
A couple of days went by, people were concerned, so Donnelle,

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determined to find out what was going on, decided to
track the fellow down. He just left work, went to
his house, knocked on the door, several times, he said.
The third time he knocked on it, he kind of
stayed up there for a minute. He knocked again, and
he heard a weak voice saying, help, who is it?
What he heard was the man who was having serious
medical issues. They have not mentioned his name due to

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medical privacy reasons. He had been in there for at
least a couple of days. I was gonna say, yeah,
he was in tears, and he said he did not
long know how long he had been there. They called paramedics.
They arrived soon afterwards. He is now on the mind,
working his way back to health, a steady diet of
rehab and a cup of gumboat delivered every few days

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by the kind of chef. What a great story.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh yeah, that's that's pretty wild.

Speaker 7 (26:17):
Like Cajun's chicken soup. Right, yeah, So is there anything
you know? I guess we made tacos at home when
with my kids, but hard shell taco you know the shells.
I guess Old L Passo was the only company you
made them back then, and you know, if they'd break
or whatever, that ended up being a hass. Yeah, yeah,

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then it ends up being taco salad. Okay, let's dup
it all the boat. But I don't know exactly when
soft tacos became a thing. You guys helped me with that.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I think it was the ad with with a surge
in fahdas. I think as as fijitas became popular, everybody
was like, what else can I put in a tortilla? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, I mean on like a quick Google, it says
soft taco originated in ancient Mexico. Yeah, I feel like
they've been around for a while, so I ye, I
mean I've always known of a soft taco, So the
deal is.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
I mean I remember so my go to at Peppi
Taco because that was the only place that you could
get tacos really Peppi Taco, and they were nineteen cents.
I'm just saying, just say it. But anyway, but that
was so cool because they made them and there they
are on the bag and then you you eat them
as you drive, and it was messy and all that
kind of stuff, but you know, when you're seventeen, sixteen,

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seventeen years old, that's that's what you do. And then
Jack in the Box comes out with these like hermetically
sealed taco deep fried. Yes, that is such a different world,
such a different world and back in the day. But
I could eat almost anything, because you can when you're young, right,
you can eat those things. Of course used to slam
those things too. Yeah yeah, because you could get like
four for a dollars. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh without

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a doubt. Yeah you could. You could write three.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
We did have somebody text in about the Jack in
the box tacos, oh did oh yeah, yeah. They said
nothing better than the greasy jack in the box tacos
with fire sauce.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I haven't had one of those in a while.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Dairy Queen makes a decent taco, is that right? Decent
hard taco. I like those.

Speaker 9 (28:08):
Well.

Speaker 7 (28:08):
A while back a food blog asked, what is the
absolute worst taco topping? Oh okay, so here the ten
starting with number ten. Tomatoes, they make it too mushy,
oh number nine. Onions, particularly raw onions. I don't know that.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
I mean, I like them, but I get I mean,
they are a powerful flavor, right, and like tacos, there
are large tacos. But you know, if you put, you know,
something that's a little bit too potent on a taco,
it kind of takes over.

Speaker 7 (28:38):
Sure, The next four make no sense and they have
no business on a taco in my Okay, roccoli, radish, pineapple, pineapple,
and sour cream.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
I love sour cream.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Oh yeah, I like sour cream and pineapple, depending on
what's in your taco. You've got some pastor in there.
The pineapple goes really.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well, but I love sour cream.

Speaker 7 (28:58):
All right, Cheese, Okay.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
These are the worst.

Speaker 7 (29:03):
Then comes let us number two. Number three lettuce is.
I mean, that's a go to. Basically it does take
up a lot.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Of room though, that's how you make your taco healthy.

Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yeah, I get you, that's it. Number two black olives,
which is divissive.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
I mean I've never I mean I've never had them
on a taco, but yeah, they're divisive on pizzas.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
Why do people eat up on purpose?

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Anyway?

Speaker 7 (29:22):
But you know, that's that's fine. I have a grandson
who looks I.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Like black alives, but I would think about them on
a taco.

Speaker 7 (29:27):
And number one, which is also divisive, is cilantro Oh yeah,
I can't stand it. Yeah, which is interesting. I just
I know people think it makes stuff taste soapy. That's
what I've heard.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yes, it's a genetic thing.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, So some people cilantro tastes like soap to them,
and others it tastes like cilantro, which they end up
really enjoying.

Speaker 7 (29:48):
It's just the reason I think soft tacos work is
you can put so many things in there, and because
you can squeeze it clothes right, eat, Yeah, you don't
have to worry about stuff, you kind of.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
And you get your it's easier to get everything in
one bite. Yeah, you know, but uh but yeah, I
mean there are some people out there who, I guess,
you know, taco purists, where it's like the tortilla and
the meat and then maybe like a little bit of
veggie something, whether it's like pico, and then that's it.

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Like they don't want, like you all of those things,
the cheese, the sour cream, like you know, if it's
especially if people really really really focus on the meat
of their taco, you know, you don't want to cover
that up. It's like barbecue, right, you don't want to
cover it up with a bunch of other stuff. If
you spent a ton of time. Now there's a lot
of other taco meat fillings where you do want to

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cover it up.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Oh sure, yeah, but but I mean I think that
certainly we used to use like the old L. Passo
taco seasoning or mccormicks talking. I'm sure you can do that,
and then that gives you your basic great way to
eat ground beef.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
And yeah, that's you know, that's an interesting you know.
I actually just bought some taco like a pack of
taco seasoning the other day. That is something that there
are a lot more options out there now than there
used to.

Speaker 8 (31:05):
Be.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
Sure, that's it well, because you can use it for
other stuff. I put it on chicken breast, and that's
what I did. I used it on chicken breast.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I was making, you know, somewhat of like a healthy
taco bowl, so I kind of wanted that flavor. But
even though I wasn't actually making tacos for.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Me, it's all about the hot sauce.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
I would be interested to know from the old L.
Passo people how they're doing on hard taco shell sales.
Because you mentioned taco bell a taco bowl. A lot
of people do a taco salad now or a talk ample.
They don't go to the trouble of putting it actually
in the hard shell. Plus, how do you do you you,
how do you hold onto the shell and put all
the food into it? I mean, I get all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Can they make the cute little taco trays?

Speaker 7 (31:44):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, if that makes sense. Sure, if
you've got that, if you happen to be really really
into that. So anyway, we celebrate your taco today and
once again we're going to be giving away some tickets late.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Good morning, I'm will Welch with your morning sports subdates.
On sixteen to twenty ninety four to five, WTA W
number five Texas A and M hosts the Florida Cators
in an SEC clash six o'clock Saturday night. Kyle Field
head coach Mike Elco talked about what the team will face.

Speaker 9 (32:14):
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

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forward to the challenge and we'll be excited to get
back under the lights in Kyle Field.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
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.

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Texas A and M putter Tyler White was named one
of Rays eight for Week six. The Augusta Sports Council
and the Ray Guy Award Committe 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

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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

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ever Top ten matchup at Reed Arena as they welcome
number three Kentucky. First served set for six and you
should go because coach Elko said so.

Speaker 9 (33:52):
Wednesday night, 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 come into town.
That'll be a great game for them.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
The number four Texas and m 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 Ages 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

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historic one. Head coach Tamiko ryans in the locker room
after the game outstanding job.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Everybody here man, outstanding job. We talked about making history
first time in his organization's history.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
All right, to come up here in Baltimore and get
to win.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Out Stand it up.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
The Texans take their two game wins 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
Allen Academy, Rudder, and A and M consolidated All in Action.
Make sure to check brawssfootball dot com for schedules, score standings,
and where to listen to the games on the Ryan

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Broadcasting family of stations. That's your morning Sports Update on sixteen,
twenty ninety four to five wta W. I'm will welch, let's.

Speaker 7 (35:09):
See, let's eat. Hey, good morning, it's about three minutes.
Jealousy if MANIAX on Tuesday, We're gonna be giving away
tickets to the Breast of Valley Fair and Rodeo. A
pair of those, a pair of tickets to the Chex.
This Renaissance Festival question is how do you like your tacos?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
This is so smart.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Someone texted in, I like to wrap my crunchy taco
with a soft shell. Oh no, it's not as messy
and you get the crunch. I mean that is what
is so great about the taco bell jeesy ordita crunch.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Somebody else said, I like good old school.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Crispy taco, ground beef, shredded lettuce, dice, tomatoes, a little
sprinkling of cheese, and.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Some hot sauce.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Somebody else said, chicken, queso pico and sour cream.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Is then to go to. Somebody else said fuego, like
the actual restatant.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Yeah, they can make.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Fagos steak, yep, steak, potatoes, corn and cheese.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
They put like fried mushrooms on some of their tacos. Whoae.
And then finally somebody else said.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Beans, taco, meat, chicken, fajita, cheese, ho pacante, all wrapped
in a big flour tortilla.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
Man.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah, that's a that's a go too. So yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
And actually somebody also texted in about cheriso and egg,
which you know, breakfast talking.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Sure that a big breakfast taco guy.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, so yeah, So text us go ahead and include
your first and last name, because we are giving away
tickets this morning.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Nine seven nine six nine five sixteen twenty.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
There you go. So our Brass Valley weather is brought
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dot com. Gonna get up to about ninety one ninety
shoes something like that. So, just checking with my wife,
she was walking out this morning, said, the humidity is
amazingly high. Ohway is almost ninety percent out there, which
is kind of weird when you have northeasterly winds, and

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I guess the winds just haven't picked up.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Yeah, they'll push through. We'll get a little gusty I
think tomorrow evening, and then we'll have a little drier conditions,
less humidity.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
I like sixty two degrees on Thursday night. Man, that's
just uh, I think we're all ready for that. Did
you get to see the moon that was the harvest
moon this morning?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
I did.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Actually took a pretty cool picture with my new iPhone.

Speaker 7 (37:06):
Oh we'll talk about that.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, I mean, I'll send it to you guys, because
it turned out way better than anything I've ever taken of.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
The sky before.

Speaker 7 (37:14):
Oh, that's fun. Yeah, And that's the thing. The phone
can do a pretty good job for you.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
You know.

Speaker 7 (37:19):
It's they've got that technology thing pretty well figured out.
I think so. As a matter of fact, did you
know it was on this date in nineteen ninety six
that the Fox News Channel made its debut. Okay, nineteen
ninety six. Didn't know they had been around.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
All that long?

Speaker 7 (37:35):
Did you know that the alley oop play started as
a football play?

Speaker 3 (37:40):
What I did not know that it.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
Started as the football play. The idea was the quarterback
jumped up, he threw it, a guy jumped up and
he caught it. They didn't start using the term in
basketball until two years later.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Oh wow.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
Bride Broadcasting Station, WTAW College Station.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Brian