October 8, 2025 • 39 mins
HelloFresh recall. Long John Silver’s new logo. Gold prices go up. William Joel Bryan. Dim the lights. Pittsburgh Christmas tree. Wordle game show. Berry budgets. Pet obesity awareness day.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
WTAW news time is three minutes after seven. It's seventy degrees.
Good morning, I'm chelseu Reebert Brian Belize announces traffic signals
have been turned on at William Joel, Bryan and Colter,
and crosswalk signals have been activated along WJB at Sue
Haswell Park.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We're all dealing with it, so just bear with the
headaches and the new change and hopefully they can get
things worked out if issues pop up.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Opter Seth Waller says there will be an education period
before tickets are issued. The Brian City Council expressed no
objections yesterday with the design of a signature playground at
Midtown Park. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez endorsed the design, having traveled
to check out the work of the companies that will
be manufacturing and installing the equipment.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We're in Arizona looked at some examples of what they've done.
I was amazed at this the projects you've done, and
this is far exceeds even the projects we looked at
over there. We did play on these things, we climbed
on these things, we walked all.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
The project cost four point two million dollars is almost
three hundred thousand dollars under budget. The city received a
two million dollar foundation grant towards the playground, which will
take fifteen months to complete. Last night's Brian City Council
meeting was the last for City Manager Keen Register before
he retires.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Thank you all, and I'm not going anywhere else. Still
be around. I'll probably be bugging all these guys anyways,
but I appreciate everything and look forward to seeing what
you guys have in store for the City of Brian
in the future.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Among others, Register thanked a city of Brian employees.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
There's none better in the state. I can guarantee you
that I've been throughout the state and I've seen a
lot of employees and no one can be what we
have going here at the City of Brian.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Register served four mayors and twenty one council members during
his fifteen years as city manager. Texas A and m's
new interim president issues his first message on.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
The A and in President's website. Tommy Williams says he
recognizes challenges in recent weeks, noting in particular the resignation
of Mark Welsh. Williams said, well shall god A and
M through complex times and position the university for continued success. Williams,
who graduated from A and M in nineteen seventy eight,
asked for student and employee participation and yet to be
(02:14):
announced series of listening sessions to ensure a seamless handoff
to the permanent President, Bill Oliver. Sixteen, twenty ninety four
to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The Texas A and M System is announced who is
on the search committee for the next permanent president of
the flagship campus. One of three members of the Board
of Regents on the committee, the chairman, Bob Albritton of
Fort Worth, said last Friday, there is no deadline.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
We're not going to put a timeline on the search
for our next president. We're going to make sure that
this next president is the exact right person to lead
us forward.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The sixteen member committee also includes three members of the
President's Cabinet, two deans, the chair of the university Staff Council,
and the last speaker of the Faculty Senate before it
was eliminated by state lawmakers. WTAW news time is six
minutes after seven. It is seventy degrees. More news at
seven thirty or online at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea
(03:06):
Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
Good morning, it's seven o eight on a Wednesday morning.
Glad you're with us. It's the INFOMINIAX. Let's have a
look at our weather. It's brought to you this morning
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and scheduled your appointment today continued stuff. I mean he's
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for a high temperature today and then maybe not quite
so warm as we move on through the week. What's
nice is it's going to get cooler. Sixty three is
supposed to be our load tomorrow night and then sixty
on Friday night. Right now, it's about seventy.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Haggie football players Cashi is Hal and Trey Zooone spoke
to the media yesterday. We will hear from them and
we'll talk about a lot more coming up in sports.
We are giving away tickets to the Brasses, Valley Fair
and Rodeo and the Texas Renaissance Festival. Our question today
is what is the least used room in your home?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, let us know. Text us with your first and
last name. A few people have texted in just about
that extra bedroom, right, the guest room.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Obviously it's only used when guests are there.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Somebody said, our extra bedroom that is filled with extra
stuff is our least used room. Somebody did text in
they actually have a massage room. WHOA yeah, with like
a massage tape. I mean it looks like a legit
business setup, which maybe it is. But she did say
she wishes that she used it more. But yeah, so
let us know. Somebody else said, probably my daughter's bedroom
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since she's in college.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
Now can confront yep, So.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Let us know what is the least used room in
your house? Again, we do need your first and last
name if you want to win those tickets. Nine seventy
nine six nine five, sixteen twenty.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
So we've got another food recall going off. Uh oh yeah,
apparently this is Hello Fresh Meals. This time, the USDA
has warned that Hello Fresh subscription meals may contained a
listeria tainted spinach.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Oh, let's hear it for listeria.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Yayia.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, so, federal health officials they warned that people. They
warned people not to eat certain Hello Fresh subscription meals
that contain spinach as it may be contaminated with listeria.
The US Agriculture Department issued a public health alert for
the meals, which were produced by Fresh Realm.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
It's California based company.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But yeah, it's the Hello Fresh ready made meals cheesy
pulled pork pasta. There's also a Hello Fresh ready made
meal unstuffed peppers with ground turkey. Both worshiped directly to consumers.
So if that sounds familiar, you may want to go
and check those the numbers, the little serial numbers and whatnot,
(05:47):
and do a quick google on the internet to make
sure that you don't have something that could be contaminated.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
That can be so unhelpful to that company, because I
don't know how many products they've got, but just because
it's one of their products, you know what people hear is, oh, wait,
there's listeria and all the food that they make at
Hello Fresh, which is not true, but that's what happened, right. Absolutely,
hope they can extricate themselves from that and.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It just sounds like this and not even you know,
it sounds like this one. They've been able to narrow
it down to this one specific ingredient.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
So yeah, and one specific supplier, I think del Mar
Foods of Watsonville, California. But they supply all kinds of
different businesses.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
All right.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
Get this.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Over the weekend in food News, Long john Silver's unveil
their brand new logo. This meant to spotlight the restaurant's
non fish menu.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Oh okay.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
The new logo swaps a fish illustration for the image
of a ticket.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Got a chicken okay.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Yeah, and a new chicken plus food text to go
along with it. Yeah, fast food spot. Normally we would
think of them as being a place for fish platters
and all that sort of stuff. They we just got
a new one, right, didn't they just rebuilt it?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
They rented? Or yeah, I mean I think they tore
it down to the ground, and did they? I guess.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
I haven't driven by it to see it.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
And the wife asked me to go there yesterday to
pick her up some lunch. I said, find something else
more convenient. It was the other side of town.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Yeah, I got you. Sood she went in Long John.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Silver She Yeah. Long John Silver's and Peppi's are her
two favorite things and two of the most difficult restaurants
to get to. Did she grow up here, of course
she did. Yeah, so that's that's her things. Yeah, it's
all nostalgia.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Yeah, there's no doubt about that. The fast food spot
formerly known for that now is trying to redesign and
they're you know, they've got chicken strips. It's best kept secret.
According to the press release, this was a completely unexpected
change that they suddenly foisted onto the public. So we
have to drive by and see if they have new signage.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Yeah, how interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I mean, I get wanting to like to to remind people, hey,
we do have more than just fish.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
But now it looks like you're a chicken restaurant.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Yep, they are known. They call them chicken planks there,
which makes sense with the pirates and all that chir
stuff coated with the same batter as they use for
their pollock, which is in their platters and the sandwiches
and that kind of thing. Despite the chicken focused marketing,
Long John Silvers will continue to have seafood as a cornerstone.
Of their brand for the press release.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Sure, and you should, but then I don't. I mean,
I don't know. Was there not a way to incorporate
a fish and a chicken.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
It seems like, well they could do a mixed platter too,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeah, or something. And I get it. It says, you know,
Long John Silt like the emblow.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I guess the logo with the chicken, and even below
it says chicken and seafood.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
But if you just see.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
The chicken, you're thinking, oh, that's a chicken tender restaurant.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
It should have had a chicken and a fish holding
hands on it.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That'd be perfectly like a chicken fish hybrid, h like
a lier.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Chickish chickfish.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Well, and clearly we did a story I don't know
months ago about how chicken is just driving the food market.
I mean, there's no doubt. So it's clear that that
Long John Silvers has not been able to hold on
to their loyalty group.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That I was gonna say, and they're probably going listen,
not enough people want fish. We've got to push the chicken.
Maybe this is a good move, you know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Well, if they go to Burgers. Then that'll be interesting too.
I mean, then they'll be just like everybody else.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, oh they won't.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I don't think they'll do that, No, I think, But
it's it's just it's interesting that you change an entire logo.
I mean, rebranding something with a new logo is it
takes a lot of work.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
August nineteenth, you remember when that happened. That was when
that was when Cracker Barrel decided they were going to
run saw that disaster and we see exactly how that.
So the thing is, I don't know that. Look, I
haven't been to Long John Silvers in decades, but I
don't know that their regular customers are as loyal because
it's not really a sit down restaurant as much as
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it is a kind of a combo drive through restaurant,
you know, fast.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Food, just like any other fast food restaurant.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Crackle Barrel folks stood up and said we will not
stand for this, and there was this, you know, media
thing for that.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So yeah, I don't know if you're gonna have that
much pushback from the Long John silver Rooks.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
The fish lobby is pretty strong out there.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
At seven seventeen on a Wednesday, if you haven't heard
enough commercials on the radio about buying gold, I'm sure
you're about to hear a bunch more.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
Investors have pushed gold's price to four thousand dollars at
troy ounce for the first time. It's likely a reflection
of uncertainty because of the government's shutdown and the weaker
US dollar. Gold futures are up fifty percent this year,
the biggest jump since the inflationary shock of nineteen seventy nine.
Gold prices have been moving higher even after trade tensions cooled,
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and stocks have been rising to records on deals involving
artificial intelligence. Goldman Sachs is predicting gold will rise to
forty nine hundred dollars by December of next year. Jinny
Coselda Fox News, it'll go.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Up another nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
That's crazy, absolutely nuts. Man.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Hey, it's only worth that of people pay for it, right, right?
So can we make William J. Bryan and Colter any
less friendly? Raise your hand? Yeah, don't tempt coly Man.
I just talk about don't drive here because it's just
too much of a hassle.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, okay, so I'm going to say this though, I
think a traffic signal. Where that is if I if
I'm thinking of it correctly, is a is a good
play because if you're if you're on the I guess
that's colter. If you're on the street with the stop
signs and you're just getting stuck there all the time.
At least now there's traffic signals.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
That's probably a good thing.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And at least crosswalks are safe.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
At least it's not a roundabout.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
It has been oh they have those two yeah. Yeah,
it has been a dangerous area for a long time
because even when it was two lanes, it was dangerous
because that's just it's kind of a wonky situation right
there where you come up and you don't really see
the all if you're looking back down toward downtown, you
really can't see all the way down, and it's pretty
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easy for cars to be coming and you pull out
in front of them, then that would be a problem. Right,
And if I'm not mistaken, now there's a bike lane there,
I'm not sure. I haven't been on the I.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Think traffic signals are probably the right decision here.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
It is.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
It's just it's going to be uh an interesting, you know,
it's going to be a congested area where not a
lot goes on? Can I say that there's not nearly
as much that used to go on? And Sue Haswell
Park is still there?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Are you driving down there, sky Well?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Cause I drive down there, not not, you know, all
the time, not every day by any means, but I
mean I drive by that park, and there's people in
that park all the time.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
They're using the park.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
They're high traffic thoroughfare getting in and out of downtown
Brian from people coming off for six.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Sure they close the pool, you know, they cover the pool.
They're not doing that. And there is what I think
is there one ballfield once.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
A swim ball field.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, and then like I said, the pavilions and the
playground equipment and stuff like that. Especially on like a Saturday,
people got birthday parties out there.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
That's sure.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Yeah. I can see that.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
I can And I understand this is text dot text
dot did this, and and because it's a state highway,
they can do it. And you know, don't always get
mad at the text dot people. They're they're you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Know, they biggest thing is you absolutely have to slow
down when you're going down that road now because they
I mean it really is. It's curvy, it's windy, you've
got roundabouts, now, you're gonna have new lights, you're gonna
have crosswalks.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
You just have to slow down.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
But I think that's the best case scenario for all
of the pedestrians and the people who live up and down.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
That road right.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
And quite honestly, we didn't used to go slow there.
I mean now people went forty five miles an hour regularly.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
It's a straight shot, yep.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
And you know, the setbacks on the houses is not
very much. And again people trying to get out of
their driveways and so certainly understand that. Just be be aware.
And I'm glad we got the story on it, just
so people remember that. So do you know why planes
dimal lights for takeoff and landing? Most people think it's
to make you more comfortable. That's not the main reason.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
So here we go.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
The site simpleflying dot com just did an article. They
said the real reason is so you'll be able to
see better if there's a crash.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Emergencies on planes are rare, but take off and landing
are the most likely times when something could go wrong.
If anything does happen, there's a good chance the plane
will lose power. So dimming the lights ahead of time
let your eyes adjust so you'll be able to see better.
The little you know, the things they say that they
have a lighted exit and then the exit signs and
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all this all the emergency lighting that happens. So next
time you fly and they dim the lights for departure,
they're not doing it to keep you comfortable. They're doing
it in case there's an action.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Okay, makes sense, Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Just uh, you hate to hear that. But anyway, So
Pittsburgh has put up their downtown Christmas tree. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
all right, wanted to get ahead of the game, two
months ahead of the days. That usually triggers plenty of
adults who like their holidays to remain within the designated
time frames. But even some kids have a beef. Now
with Pittsburgh. There's a local news report about the Christmas
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tree which was put up in the plaza at an
ice rink. But the ice rink doesn't open until November fourteenth.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
So they interviewed this young boy named Marcus Woodford, who
said that he was really excited because he wanted to
go skate, but he said, I gotta say, I have
to wait till after Halloween to do that. So, hey,
guess what in Texas, we don't get to skate.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
You gotta go inside somewhere.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
You got an ice rink here so you can do that.
But yeah, at the same time, you gotta understand they're
doing theirs a little bit differently in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
I really saw it because we're gonna ice skate on
me and my family are gonna ice skate on the tree.
But I gotta say they should have waited for Halloween.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
Yeah, so I wonder why they did do that. Maybe
it's a good feeling type thing.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Maybe a scheduling thing, you know, the tree people have
a certain amount they have to get done.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Well, could be. I like to think it's a universal
but I don't know. If they decorated and lit it,
if they just hung, if they just got the tree
up there, I don't know that that's the right thing
to do.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
But uh, you.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Hope the tree like lives long enough.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Good point. You don't want to have dead leaves on
the dead dot.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I'm assuming it's a real tree.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Yes, well, then there's that. Come on seven twenty five,
it's see info MANIAX. One texture says, if you're having
to drive slow on William Joelbrian, you're driving the wrong car.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Does that mean that you've got a car that can
steer around that stuff and still go fast? I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Let's be smart about it.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Another texture helped us fish and chicks, Fish and Chicks perfect. Yeah,
I think that's exactly what it needs.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Somebody else texted in, wasn't there slogan chicken of the sea,
but that is definitely the tune of broaduct.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
It's survey of two thousand people over fifty reveals this
age group experiencing their most fulfilling decade. Researchers found that
forty two percent finally understand what they want from life,
forty have found time to enjoy those activities, and additionally,
a thirty two percent report that they have more meaningful
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relationships now that they are in their fifties. So if
you're not there yet, maybe it's something to look forward to.
If you're over fifty, you go, huh, look at that
back there. Well, anyway, so the we have a new
word game coming up, Wordle. We have an old word game,
Wordle that is now going to be a game show apparent.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Oh interesting it is.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
NBC is creating a television show based on the popular
new The New York Times word puzzle Wordle Savannah Guthrie.
I don't know who she is.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeh yeah, yeah, yeah, she's like one of those morning
talk shows. Oh I got you, okay, yeah, so my
recognizer the.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Times purchase word. Remember a guy I just made it up,
which was kind of a fun thing. It's a great
story that he did. They bought it in twenty twenty two,
and the puzzle generates billions of plays annually. Chelsea, I
know you were a daily for a while. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I played this morning. Oh yeah, yeah, every day of work.
Speaker 10 (18:14):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
So that'll be kind of a Players get six attempts
to identify five letter words using color coded clues. If approved,
the Wordle series would join Jimmy Fallon's other game show.
He's the executive producer.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yes, yeah, it's coming from his studio company.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Okay, they do password apparently, so oh okay, that'll be
kind of interesting to see. Yeah that works out.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I could see.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean, if you're really into and there's a lot
of people I think that still play it like you know,
every day. Okay, this isn't something I'm going to necessarily
go out of my way to like apply for.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
But I don't know, I.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Could see it being being because there are some days
where it just feels a lot harder than others.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Well, but the thing is it's done. When it's done.
Do you do you let them stay for a second word?
Or is just two people through the world sort?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
What's the holden? How the format were multiple words? Coming
to NBC sometime soon.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Let's WTAW news time is seven thirty two.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
It's seventy degrees.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
News is presented by west Web, All Britain Gentry and
law firm, the experienced legal team for the things you
value most. Good morning, I'm Chelsea reberb December marks two
years since the Brian City Council accepted a two million
dollar foundation grant towards what was at the time two
and a half million in city money towards a signature
playground at Midtown Park. The second company that the council
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engaged for the project presented its plans to the council yesterday.
Mayor Bobby Gatirez was already aware of the plans as
he and City Manager Keen Register traveled to places to
check out the components of what will be used in Brian.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
You'll know Keen actually played on one of these six.
He didn't get hurt and prank anything.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
All right, if it's and if Keene can do it,
if it's Keen proof, it's kid proof.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
That's our kind of our litanist us.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Construction of the twenty four thousand square foot playground is
expected to take fifteen months. The project cost is almost
three hundred thousand dollars under budget. Brian City Manager Keen
Register participated last night in his last city council meeting
before he retires, after receiving a proclamation he thinked a
lot of people. Beginning with four mayors, I was.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Very fortunate to be able to serve under the best
mayors that this city has ever had, Mark Conley, Jason Bienski,
Andrew Nelson and now Mayor Guitars.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Register also served with twenty one council members.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Absolute best city councils that anyone could ever want. I mean,
you guys are amazing and y'all are truly what makes
this city what it is. It makes my job easy.
We've always kind of had the same vision for the
city and I think as long as that's the case
in Sky's the.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Limit Register officially retires November third, after fifteen years as
manager and two stints as interim manager.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
If you drive.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
William Joel Brian Parkway around Sue Haswell Park, Brian police
officer Seth Waller says, new traffic signals are operating at
WJB and Culture.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
We've been used to forever just the stop signs there
on Culture, and like I said, now both those sides
have intersection lights, so be prepared to follow the lag.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Also activated are crosswalk signals on WJB at Haswell Park
where drivers will have to stop when those lights turn.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Red for right now.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Try to get everybody used to the new change, Educate
people as needed and that the citations need to go
out those will be handled accordingly while.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
They're also tells pedestrians and bicyclists to pay attention to
the new signals. Brian Belice also has a heads up
for motorists today at William Joel Bryan and Villa Maria,
old traffic signals are coming down and new signals are
being activated.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
The switch is expected to take most of today to complete.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
A Madisonville man is out of the Brazos County jail
after posting bond following his arrest last Saturday night for
causing a hit and run crash in Bran while driving
under the influence. The arrest report says forty three year
old Steve Avendano has two prior toy WI convictions in
Brazs County. No injuries were reported in the collision at
Villa Maria and Carter Creek. A witness followed Avendano to
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the parking lot of a convenience store along the freeway.
He's also charged with resisting arrest, and the arrest report
says it took two officers to hold him while blood
was being drawn at the hospital. Two Brian men remain
in jail following their arrest Saturday night on charges related
to a disturbance that involved a Molotov cocktail and gunfire.
Jail records show forty three year old Samuel Sanchez Avagier,
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who was accused of throwing the explosive device at another man,
is held for immigration authorities, and thirty one year old
Humberto Sanchez Junior, who was the target of the molotov cocktail,
is accused of firing his gun at Avallier. Sanchez is
also charged with violating parole. Court record show Sanchez was
sentenced eight years ago two twelve years in prison for
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armed robbery and two burglaries of a habitation ped arrest
reports do not show that anyone was injured in the
disturbance at the trailer park.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
On Oldhurn Road.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
The first message to the Texas A and M community
has been issued by the university's new interim president.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Tommy Williams, who graduated from A and M in nineteen
seventy eight, posted on the president's website that together with
students and employees, they will carry forward the same spirit
of service and unity that's to find the university that
next year will celebrate at one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Williams wrote that leadership transitions can be opportunities to reaffirm
A and M's mission, and Williams said former President Mark
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Walsh led with integrity, humility, and a steadfast commitment to
the university's mission. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to
five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
A group of sixteen people will recommend to the Texas
A and M System Board of Regents who will be
the next permanent president of the flagship campus before the
system announced who is on the search committee. Board of
Regent's chairman, Involve All Brittain of Fort Worth said last Friday,
there is no deadline.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
The most important thing is we get this right and
we will take our time and we will get to
the right input to make sure it's a great decision.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
All Britain is one of three regions who is on
the search committee. The group also includes the student body president,
former A and M President Elsa Morano, the university's chief
Community Engagement Officer, an m's athletics director, and one department head.
WTAW news time is seven thirty seven. It is seventy degrees.
News is presented by west Web All Britain, Gentry. More
(24:25):
news at the top of the hour or online at
WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety
four to five WTAW.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Good morning. It's seven thirty nine the INFOMATIAX on this Wednesday.
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(24:55):
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We'll see it's seventy right now.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Texas A and M women's call team dominated day one
of the NB three match play. It is setting up
a championship opportunity this afternoon against number seventeen Arizona. That
coverage will be on the Golf Channel starting at three thirty.
We'll take a look at that and more coming up
in sports.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
All right, So I've got some insider information on this
Pittsburgh Christmas tree. So coming from somebody who grew up
in the area. They say that the tree is artificial
and it's not real. They also say it takes a
while to set up and doing it earlier, so they
have plenty of time to set up the ice rink
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on the tree's perimeter.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Gotcha. So it's a logistics it's.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
A logistics thing, and and you know the ice rink
opens up. The tree is not lit up until November
twenty second. Okay, so it's not necessarily up and you know,
looking all Christmas y too early, but truly it is
so that they can get the ice rink set up,
you know, ahead of time, and that is why the
tree goes up as early.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
As excellent investigative report.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, you appreciate our listeners who want to keep us informed.
So okay, so I thought this was a pretty funny story.
And you know, I again not a parent, but I
do understand a lot are and we talk about how
things are getting more expensive, including just having children in general.
So this woman, Hillary Grady is her name. She's shopping
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outside of Chicago. It's about a year ago, shopping for
groceries when her young daughter has said, you know, hey,
I really really want three years old. I really want
these berries and I want them now. So Mom, instead
of you know, waiting for this to escalate into screaming,
said okay, here, you can eat two of these berries
while I'm getting my groceries. About twenty minutes later, Mom
(26:42):
looks down entire carton's gone. Oh yep, yep, completely gone.
So we had to go back to the produce section
and buy a whole nother one.
Speaker 12 (26:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The cashier gave me a strange look as he rang
up the empty carton, and I said, yes, I know,
we've already finished it.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
And mom got a crash course.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
In how a toddler's berry appetite can leave an asteroid
sized crater in a grocery budget. So they surveyed two
hundred and thirty seven parents about fruit buying budgets. Berries
represent a significant and terrifying expense. The average amount spent
on berries per month. This is including strawberries, blackberries, blueberries,
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and raspberries per month fifty three dollars. Okay, again, those
are strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Many respondents reports spending
two hundred dollars or more per month on berries, and
thirty two percent of respondents said their kids typically eat
a carton of berries in a single day.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
And you know, I get, you know, especially if you're
a kiddo and you're little, you've got little hands.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Apples are hard to eat, you know, Oranges, Mom's got
to peel them.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
There's a lot of other fruit.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Bananas, same thing, like somebody else has got to do
the work for you. You just stick a plateful of
blueberries in front of a kid, you let them go
to town r Yeah, and they are delicious berries healthy, Yep,
And they're very healthy. They say berries are the top
selling US fresh fruit. But they also can be very expensive.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Now.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
I saw a story this is probably three months ago.
They were discussing and they really kind of drilled down
because the problem and the reason they're expensive. I mean,
to get them from where they're produced to where they're consumed.
Sometimes it's a long distance and that can be a
whole lot of money.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
And because they don't have the protective skin.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Sure that a lot of other fruits do, they typically
can go. You know, their shelf life is much shorter.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
I'm assuming you know in different parts of the country now,
I think Chelsea. I don't know when you go up
to the Northeast. I don't know if you eat blueberries
up there, but I think they're much smaller up there
than they are down here. We get larger ones here,
and sometimes they taste different because it's much closer to
where they're grown. I mean up in Maine and New England,
they grow tons of tons of blueberries and stuff up there.
(28:58):
Now we do a lot of well I say a lot.
We do more cantalope and grapefruit maybe and things like
that as opposed to those other berries. I don't know,
for instance, where raspberries are grown, not around here, but
getting them from there to here is expensive and apparently
especially in California, because they grow a ton of berries
out there, they have some ultra fresh fruits that are
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really expensive, I mean another twenty percent. And the problem
is if kids get hooked on that. Yeah, yeah, the
pars are really going to have a problem.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
Yeah, my kids got hooked on blueberries when they were
teething because we came up with a life hack. We
discovered it that you take frozen blueberries and you thaw
them just a little bit under running warm water, and
then you let your kids chew on them. You don't
want them frozen so they're not a choking hassard, but
you want them at a little cold and a little icy,
And it really helped with their teething. It also made
(29:52):
them look like they ate a smurf, But other than that,
it was really great and they've they've been hooked on
them ever such.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, they say parents who have raised their kids on berries.
Obviously for the east of chewing for toddlers, also for
the antioxidants have also been pushed along by the very
visible hand of the produce industry. Driscolls, which you know
we've all seen, the largest berry seller in the US,
began working back in the nineteen eighties to make berries
available year round and more attractive in color, transforming them
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from a seasonal treat to a daily necessity.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
So this is not a new thing.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Okay, that's forty five years.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Yeah, they've been working on it. They've been arguing on it.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yet.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
In twenty seventeen, Driscoll's president told The New Yorker that
rather than operate as a typical produce company that sells
what it can grow, Driscolls sees itself as a consumer
products company.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
We create the demand. It's more like Procter and Gamble.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Man. What an interesting mindset, yep, and true, I mean,
I guess it works. I suppose if you now what
I use as an apple core when I eat an apple. Now,
just that thing is slams down and cuts them and
all that. If you take that and maybe I mean again,
and there's a choke hazard involved with apple pieces. But boy,
if you can get kiddos over to apples, that might
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be a lord.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, they say per pound cost of blueberries, raspberries, and
blackberries is three times the cost of an apple and
eight to ten times the cost.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Of a banana.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Wow, they say, even clementines, the little ones are cheap
in comparison. Man, yeah, berries are, and that's that's I
don't buy berries a lot.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
I love berries, but I see how small.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
That little container is, and I see the price, and
I think to myself, I could eat that in a sitting,
which a toddler can do.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Of course I can.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And so unless I'm buying them specifically for a recipe
or you know, some kind of like you know, yeah, whatever,
I just I typically don't because the price is so expensive.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
And then you take that and you play the organic game.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Oh gosh, yeah, don't even get me started.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Through the room. I was comparing I think, raspberries the
other day, a dollar ninety seven or three ninety eight,
I mean, which were coming? Are you kidding at the
four dollars for one of those little containers of organic raspberries?
And they looked a little bit funkier too, just to
be honest with you, but man, that is serious. So
repeat again the apple and banana price percentage. Sure coast
(32:12):
of the berries, Sure parents understand.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, So the per pound cost okay, per pound cost
for raspberries seven dollars and seventy three cents, for blueberries
four dollars and sixteen cents. So you're getting a little
bit cheaper strawberries two dollars and ninety seven cents.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
But ultimately the.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Per pound cost of those berries is about three times
the cost of an apple, in eight to ten times
the cost of bananas.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Okay, you've been warned, right.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Good morning, I'm will welps with your morning sports update
on sixteen, twenty ninety four five WTA double four. The
Florida Gators maybe two to three on the season, but
they are obviously an improving team with the twenty nine
to twenty one victory over Texas last week weekend, and
they are full of SEC talent. Aggie linebacker cashi As Hall.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
It's an SEC quarterback, of SEC offensive line and SEC
everything that we play. So you know, obviously they're gonna
have some talent. They're gonna have playmakers, they're gonna have
people that can you know, do good things on that
ball or if they wouldn't play.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Their offensive lineman Trey Zoon is confident. It says the
team is paying attention to the details.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
They're very talented, but we're talented too, and we're a
veteran group, so there's not much we haven't seen and
there's not much that, yeah, we won't see. So we're prepared,
we're ready to go, and we're just focusing on the
little details, you know, technique and focus to you know,
not shoot ourselves on the foot during drives. You know,
if we're making plays, we need to be able to
move the ball down the field and not be taking
steps back with kind.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Of these Texas A and M hosts Florida on Saturday
at six o'clock, and as always, you can listen to
all things Aggie football on the Brian Broadcasting family of stations.
The number nine Texas A and M volleyball team returns
to Red Arena to host number three Kentucky in the
first top ten home matchup in program history tonight at six.
Kentucky has claimed the last three battles between the teams,
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including last year's contest in Lexington. The two programs are
undefeated in league play. The Aggies are tied for the
top of the SEC at four and oh, while the
Wildcats are right behind at three and oh. The Texas
A and M softball team continues its home stand with
a three game stretch starting tonight at Davis Diamond. Admission
is free for all home games. The Merdin Widers sent
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for a ten inning matchup tonight against Baylor, followed by
seven inning games against mcclennan on Thursday and Texas State
on Friday. Each game is scheduled for a six o'clock
first pitch. The number sixteen Texas A and M men's
golf team placed third at the Marquette Intercollegiate following yesterday's
round of one over two eighty nine. Aaron Pounds led
(34:45):
the Aggies, finishing tie for fourth place at three over.
It marked his second top five of the season. He
finished five strokes behind medallist Tyler Cowick of San Diego State.
The Aggies close out the fall slate coming up at
the end of this month at the Steer Collegiate Invitational
in Locksley, Alabama. The number four Texas and IN women's
golf team dominated New Mexico and New Mexico State to
(35:08):
earn eight points Tuesday to open the NB three match
play at twin Warriors, setting up a championship opportunity on
the Golf Channel today versus number seventeen Arizona. That coverage
begins at three point thirty this afternoon. Houston Texans general
manager Nick Cassio said yesterday that there is no timetable
for the return of running back Joe Mixon. Mixon didn't
(35:30):
participate in training camp and has been out all season
recovering from a foot injury he sustained in the off season.
He was eligible to come off the physically unable to
Perform lists last week, but remained out with no word
on when he would make his season debut. Mixon is
in his second year in Houston. After running for over
one thousand yards and eleven touchdowns last season, He's had
(35:51):
five one thousand yard seasons in an eight year career
that started in Cincinnati. The Texans have been splitting carries
between veteran Nick Chubb, who is in his first season
in Houston, and rookie Woodie Marx. That's your morning sports
Update on sixteen, twenty ninety four or five wtaw, I'm
will welch.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Good morning. About three minutes Jill, let's see infomaniacs On
a Wednesday. We're about to give away our prizes for today,
which is a pair of tickets to the prizes County
Care of Fair Rodeo, which is coming.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
Up next weekend.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
And then we've got the Texas Renaissance Festival which opens
up this weekend. Our question is what is the least
used room in your house?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, let us know nine seven, nine, six nine five
sixteen twenty. Somebody said we're empty nesters, so our kids'
bedrooms are the least used. Somebody else, my daughter's bedroom
she got married and moved to her own home. Yeah,
just basically guest bedrooms or old kids rooms.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
Yeah, sometimes happened.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
That's so sure, let us know and go ahead and
include your first and last name if you want a
chance to win.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
So today, as we mentioned, is pet Obesity Day. You
need to be aware of that.
Speaker 14 (36:52):
It's pet obesity Awareness Day. Now you can do something
for your overweight dog introducing phone Zipitch bone Bone. Is
it time to give bone Zepoch to your dog? We
say yes. If the mailman distracts him with ketchup packets.
When he jumps on the bed, it flings you off
(37:13):
like a catapult.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Bone bone bone bone.
Speaker 9 (37:16):
Z lone zempic. So your fat dog can be fat dog.
Gone there you go, don't laugh.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
Very true. So a new pole found. Gen z ers again.
Now that's people who were born I don't know. They're
like teenagers to twenty eight or so. Gen z adults
are more generation are the generation that wants a calming environment,
in fact, complete silence on their morning commute. They don't
want to listen to us.
Speaker 9 (37:47):
Well, okay, they don't know what they're missing.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
Fifty five percent of zoomers claim that they enjoy driving
in total silence. They're also the most likely to use
their drive to mentally pro says their workday, and the
most likely to take it occasional nap in their car.
Oh dear, yeah all right. The survey looked at how
different generations use their time in the car, and each
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age group is different. Millennials are the most likely to
think about the future or make plans while driving. Some
more obsessed are multitasking, and they're trying to be productive.
And you got it, you gen xers. Congrats, you're the
ones who are really cool. Gen Xers the generation most
likely to rock it out on their morning commute. Eighty
(38:31):
nine percent are listening to music or like the Infomaniacs
or something like that for a top quality drive activity.
So there, we appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
The most common sentence in the Harry Potter books is
nothing happened.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
The most common sentence in the Twilight books was I sighed, I.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Okay, so nothing happened.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
The word dilemma originally meant a choice between two tough
options three options. Was a triline
WTAW news time is three minutes after seven. It's seventy degrees.
Good morning, I'm chelseu Reebert Brian Belize announces traffic signals
have been turned on at William Joel, Bryan and Colter,
and crosswalk signals have been activated along WJB at Sue
Haswell Park.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We're all dealing with it, so just bear with the
headaches and the new change and hopefully they can get
things worked out if issues pop up.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Opter Seth Waller says there will be an education period
before tickets are issued. The Brian City Council expressed no
objections yesterday with the design of a signature playground at
Midtown Park. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez endorsed the design, having traveled
to check out the work of the companies that will
be manufacturing and installing the equipment.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We're in Arizona looked at some examples of what they've done.
I was amazed at this the projects you've done, and
this is far exceeds even the projects we looked at
over there. We did play on these things, we climbed
on these things, we walked all.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
The project cost four point two million dollars is almost
three hundred thousand dollars under budget. The city received a
two million dollar foundation grant towards the playground, which will
take fifteen months to complete. Last night's Brian City Council
meeting was the last for City Manager Keen Register before
he retires.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Thank you all, and I'm not going anywhere else. Still
be around. I'll probably be bugging all these guys anyways,
but I appreciate everything and look forward to seeing what
you guys have in store for the City of Brian
in the future.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Among others, Register thanked a city of Brian employees.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
There's none better in the state. I can guarantee you
that I've been throughout the state and I've seen a
lot of employees and no one can be what we
have going here at the City of Brian.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Register served four mayors and twenty one council members during
his fifteen years as city manager. Texas A and m's
new interim president issues his first message on.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
The A and in President's website. Tommy Williams says he
recognizes challenges in recent weeks, noting in particular the resignation
of Mark Welsh. Williams said, well shall god A and
M through complex times and position the university for continued success. Williams,
who graduated from A and M in nineteen seventy eight,
asked for student and employee participation and yet to be
(02:14):
announced series of listening sessions to ensure a seamless handoff
to the permanent President, Bill Oliver. Sixteen, twenty ninety four
to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The Texas A and M System is announced who is
on the search committee for the next permanent president of
the flagship campus. One of three members of the Board
of Regents on the committee, the chairman, Bob Albritton of
Fort Worth, said last Friday, there is no deadline.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
We're not going to put a timeline on the search
for our next president. We're going to make sure that
this next president is the exact right person to lead
us forward.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The sixteen member committee also includes three members of the
President's Cabinet, two deans, the chair of the university Staff Council,
and the last speaker of the Faculty Senate before it
was eliminated by state lawmakers. WTAW news time is six
minutes after seven. It is seventy degrees. More news at
seven thirty or online at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea
(03:06):
Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
Good morning, it's seven o eight on a Wednesday morning.
Glad you're with us. It's the INFOMINIAX. Let's have a
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on Friday night. Right now, it's about seventy.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Haggie football players Cashi is Hal and Trey Zooone spoke
to the media yesterday. We will hear from them and
we'll talk about a lot more coming up in sports.
We are giving away tickets to the Brasses, Valley Fair
and Rodeo and the Texas Renaissance Festival. Our question today
is what is the least used room in your home?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, let us know. Text us with your first and
last name. A few people have texted in just about
that extra bedroom, right, the guest room.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Obviously it's only used when guests are there.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Somebody said, our extra bedroom that is filled with extra
stuff is our least used room. Somebody did text in
they actually have a massage room. WHOA yeah, with like
a massage tape. I mean it looks like a legit
business setup, which maybe it is. But she did say
she wishes that she used it more. But yeah, so
let us know. Somebody else said, probably my daughter's bedroom
(04:35):
since she's in college.
Speaker 9 (04:36):
Now can confront yep, So.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Let us know what is the least used room in
your house? Again, we do need your first and last
name if you want to win those tickets. Nine seventy
nine six nine five, sixteen twenty.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
So we've got another food recall going off. Uh oh yeah,
apparently this is Hello Fresh Meals. This time, the USDA
has warned that Hello Fresh subscription meals may contained a
listeria tainted spinach.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Oh, let's hear it for listeria.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Yayia.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, so, federal health officials they warned that people. They
warned people not to eat certain Hello Fresh subscription meals
that contain spinach as it may be contaminated with listeria.
The US Agriculture Department issued a public health alert for
the meals, which were produced by Fresh Realm.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
It's California based company.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But yeah, it's the Hello Fresh ready made meals cheesy
pulled pork pasta. There's also a Hello Fresh ready made
meal unstuffed peppers with ground turkey. Both worshiped directly to consumers.
So if that sounds familiar, you may want to go
and check those the numbers, the little serial numbers and whatnot,
(05:47):
and do a quick google on the internet to make
sure that you don't have something that could be contaminated.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
That can be so unhelpful to that company, because I
don't know how many products they've got, but just because
it's one of their products, you know what people hear is, oh, wait,
there's listeria and all the food that they make at
Hello Fresh, which is not true, but that's what happened, right. Absolutely,
hope they can extricate themselves from that and.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It just sounds like this and not even you know,
it sounds like this one. They've been able to narrow
it down to this one specific ingredient.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
So yeah, and one specific supplier, I think del Mar
Foods of Watsonville, California. But they supply all kinds of
different businesses.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
All right.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
Get this.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Over the weekend in food News, Long john Silver's unveil
their brand new logo. This meant to spotlight the restaurant's
non fish menu.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Oh okay.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
The new logo swaps a fish illustration for the image
of a ticket.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Got a chicken okay.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Yeah, and a new chicken plus food text to go
along with it. Yeah, fast food spot. Normally we would
think of them as being a place for fish platters
and all that sort of stuff. They we just got
a new one, right, didn't they just rebuilt it?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
They rented? Or yeah, I mean I think they tore
it down to the ground, and did they? I guess.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
I haven't driven by it to see it.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
And the wife asked me to go there yesterday to
pick her up some lunch. I said, find something else
more convenient. It was the other side of town.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Yeah, I got you. Sood she went in Long John.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Silver She Yeah. Long John Silver's and Peppi's are her
two favorite things and two of the most difficult restaurants
to get to. Did she grow up here, of course
she did. Yeah, so that's that's her things. Yeah, it's
all nostalgia.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Yeah, there's no doubt about that. The fast food spot
formerly known for that now is trying to redesign and
they're you know, they've got chicken strips. It's best kept secret.
According to the press release, this was a completely unexpected
change that they suddenly foisted onto the public. So we
have to drive by and see if they have new signage.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Yeah, how interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I mean, I get wanting to like to to remind people, hey,
we do have more than just fish.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
But now it looks like you're a chicken restaurant.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Yep, they are known. They call them chicken planks there,
which makes sense with the pirates and all that chir
stuff coated with the same batter as they use for
their pollock, which is in their platters and the sandwiches
and that kind of thing. Despite the chicken focused marketing,
Long John Silvers will continue to have seafood as a cornerstone.
Of their brand for the press release.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Sure, and you should, but then I don't. I mean,
I don't know. Was there not a way to incorporate
a fish and a chicken.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
It seems like, well they could do a mixed platter too,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeah, or something. And I get it. It says, you know,
Long John Silt like the emblow.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I guess the logo with the chicken, and even below
it says chicken and seafood.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
But if you just see.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
The chicken, you're thinking, oh, that's a chicken tender restaurant.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
It should have had a chicken and a fish holding
hands on it.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That'd be perfectly like a chicken fish hybrid, h like
a lier.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Chickish chickfish.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Well, and clearly we did a story I don't know
months ago about how chicken is just driving the food market.
I mean, there's no doubt. So it's clear that that
Long John Silvers has not been able to hold on
to their loyalty group.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That I was gonna say, and they're probably going listen,
not enough people want fish. We've got to push the chicken.
Maybe this is a good move, you know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Well, if they go to Burgers. Then that'll be interesting too.
I mean, then they'll be just like everybody else.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, oh they won't.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I don't think they'll do that, No, I think, But
it's it's just it's interesting that you change an entire logo.
I mean, rebranding something with a new logo is it
takes a lot of work.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
August nineteenth, you remember when that happened. That was when
that was when Cracker Barrel decided they were going to
run saw that disaster and we see exactly how that.
So the thing is, I don't know that. Look, I
haven't been to Long John Silvers in decades, but I
don't know that their regular customers are as loyal because
it's not really a sit down restaurant as much as
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it is a kind of a combo drive through restaurant,
you know, fast.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Food, just like any other fast food restaurant.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Crackle Barrel folks stood up and said we will not
stand for this, and there was this, you know, media
thing for that.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So yeah, I don't know if you're gonna have that
much pushback from the Long John silver Rooks.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
The fish lobby is pretty strong out there.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
At seven seventeen on a Wednesday, if you haven't heard
enough commercials on the radio about buying gold, I'm sure
you're about to hear a bunch more.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
Investors have pushed gold's price to four thousand dollars at
troy ounce for the first time. It's likely a reflection
of uncertainty because of the government's shutdown and the weaker
US dollar. Gold futures are up fifty percent this year,
the biggest jump since the inflationary shock of nineteen seventy nine.
Gold prices have been moving higher even after trade tensions cooled,
(10:45):
and stocks have been rising to records on deals involving
artificial intelligence. Goldman Sachs is predicting gold will rise to
forty nine hundred dollars by December of next year. Jinny
Coselda Fox News, it'll go.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Up another nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
That's crazy, absolutely nuts. Man.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Hey, it's only worth that of people pay for it, right, right?
So can we make William J. Bryan and Colter any
less friendly? Raise your hand? Yeah, don't tempt coly Man.
I just talk about don't drive here because it's just
too much of a hassle.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, okay, so I'm going to say this though, I
think a traffic signal. Where that is if I if
I'm thinking of it correctly, is a is a good
play because if you're if you're on the I guess
that's colter. If you're on the street with the stop
signs and you're just getting stuck there all the time.
At least now there's traffic signals.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
That's probably a good thing.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And at least crosswalks are safe.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
At least it's not a roundabout.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
It has been oh they have those two yeah. Yeah,
it has been a dangerous area for a long time
because even when it was two lanes, it was dangerous
because that's just it's kind of a wonky situation right
there where you come up and you don't really see
the all if you're looking back down toward downtown, you
really can't see all the way down, and it's pretty
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easy for cars to be coming and you pull out
in front of them, then that would be a problem. Right,
And if I'm not mistaken, now there's a bike lane there,
I'm not sure. I haven't been on the I.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Think traffic signals are probably the right decision here.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
It is.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
It's just it's going to be uh an interesting, you know,
it's going to be a congested area where not a
lot goes on? Can I say that there's not nearly
as much that used to go on? And Sue Haswell
Park is still there?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Are you driving down there, sky Well?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Cause I drive down there, not not, you know, all
the time, not every day by any means, but I
mean I drive by that park, and there's people in
that park all the time.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
They're using the park.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
They're high traffic thoroughfare getting in and out of downtown
Brian from people coming off for six.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Sure they close the pool, you know, they cover the pool.
They're not doing that. And there is what I think
is there one ballfield once.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
A swim ball field.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, and then like I said, the pavilions and the
playground equipment and stuff like that. Especially on like a Saturday,
people got birthday parties out there.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
That's sure.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Yeah. I can see that.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
I can And I understand this is text dot text
dot did this, and and because it's a state highway,
they can do it. And you know, don't always get
mad at the text dot people. They're they're you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Know, they biggest thing is you absolutely have to slow
down when you're going down that road now because they
I mean it really is. It's curvy, it's windy, you've
got roundabouts, now, you're gonna have new lights, you're gonna
have crosswalks.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
You just have to slow down.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
But I think that's the best case scenario for all
of the pedestrians and the people who live up and down.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
That road right.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
And quite honestly, we didn't used to go slow there.
I mean now people went forty five miles an hour regularly.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
It's a straight shot, yep.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
And you know, the setbacks on the houses is not
very much. And again people trying to get out of
their driveways and so certainly understand that. Just be be aware.
And I'm glad we got the story on it, just
so people remember that. So do you know why planes
dimal lights for takeoff and landing? Most people think it's
to make you more comfortable. That's not the main reason.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
So here we go.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
The site simpleflying dot com just did an article. They
said the real reason is so you'll be able to
see better if there's a crash.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Emergencies on planes are rare, but take off and landing
are the most likely times when something could go wrong.
If anything does happen, there's a good chance the plane
will lose power. So dimming the lights ahead of time
let your eyes adjust so you'll be able to see better.
The little you know, the things they say that they
have a lighted exit and then the exit signs and
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all this all the emergency lighting that happens. So next
time you fly and they dim the lights for departure,
they're not doing it to keep you comfortable. They're doing
it in case there's an action.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Okay, makes sense, Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Just uh, you hate to hear that. But anyway, So
Pittsburgh has put up their downtown Christmas tree. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
all right, wanted to get ahead of the game, two
months ahead of the days. That usually triggers plenty of
adults who like their holidays to remain within the designated
time frames. But even some kids have a beef. Now
with Pittsburgh. There's a local news report about the Christmas
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tree which was put up in the plaza at an
ice rink. But the ice rink doesn't open until November fourteenth.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
So they interviewed this young boy named Marcus Woodford, who
said that he was really excited because he wanted to
go skate, but he said, I gotta say, I have
to wait till after Halloween to do that. So, hey,
guess what in Texas, we don't get to skate.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
You gotta go inside somewhere.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
You got an ice rink here so you can do that.
But yeah, at the same time, you gotta understand they're
doing theirs a little bit differently in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
I really saw it because we're gonna ice skate on
me and my family are gonna ice skate on the tree.
But I gotta say they should have waited for Halloween.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
Yeah, so I wonder why they did do that. Maybe
it's a good feeling type thing.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Maybe a scheduling thing, you know, the tree people have
a certain amount they have to get done.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Well, could be. I like to think it's a universal
but I don't know. If they decorated and lit it,
if they just hung, if they just got the tree
up there, I don't know that that's the right thing
to do.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
But uh, you.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Hope the tree like lives long enough.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Good point. You don't want to have dead leaves on
the dead dot.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I'm assuming it's a real tree.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Yes, well, then there's that. Come on seven twenty five,
it's see info MANIAX. One texture says, if you're having
to drive slow on William Joelbrian, you're driving the wrong car.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Does that mean that you've got a car that can
steer around that stuff and still go fast? I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Let's be smart about it.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Another texture helped us fish and chicks, Fish and Chicks perfect. Yeah,
I think that's exactly what it needs.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Somebody else texted in, wasn't there slogan chicken of the sea,
but that is definitely the tune of broaduct.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
It's survey of two thousand people over fifty reveals this
age group experiencing their most fulfilling decade. Researchers found that
forty two percent finally understand what they want from life,
forty have found time to enjoy those activities, and additionally,
a thirty two percent report that they have more meaningful
(17:19):
relationships now that they are in their fifties. So if
you're not there yet, maybe it's something to look forward to.
If you're over fifty, you go, huh, look at that
back there. Well, anyway, so the we have a new
word game coming up, Wordle. We have an old word game,
Wordle that is now going to be a game show apparent.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Oh interesting it is.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
NBC is creating a television show based on the popular
new The New York Times word puzzle Wordle Savannah Guthrie.
I don't know who she is.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeh yeah, yeah, yeah, she's like one of those morning
talk shows. Oh I got you, okay, yeah, so my
recognizer the.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Times purchase word. Remember a guy I just made it up,
which was kind of a fun thing. It's a great
story that he did. They bought it in twenty twenty two,
and the puzzle generates billions of plays annually. Chelsea, I
know you were a daily for a while. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I played this morning. Oh yeah, yeah, every day of work.
Speaker 10 (18:14):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
So that'll be kind of a Players get six attempts
to identify five letter words using color coded clues. If approved,
the Wordle series would join Jimmy Fallon's other game show.
He's the executive producer.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yes, yeah, it's coming from his studio company.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Okay, they do password apparently, so oh okay, that'll be
kind of interesting to see. Yeah that works out.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I could see.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean, if you're really into and there's a lot
of people I think that still play it like you know,
every day. Okay, this isn't something I'm going to necessarily
go out of my way to like apply for.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
But I don't know, I.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Could see it being being because there are some days
where it just feels a lot harder than others.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Well, but the thing is it's done. When it's done.
Do you do you let them stay for a second word?
Or is just two people through the world sort?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
What's the holden? How the format were multiple words? Coming
to NBC sometime soon.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Let's WTAW news time is seven thirty two.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
It's seventy degrees.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
News is presented by west Web, All Britain Gentry and
law firm, the experienced legal team for the things you
value most. Good morning, I'm Chelsea reberb December marks two
years since the Brian City Council accepted a two million
dollar foundation grant towards what was at the time two
and a half million in city money towards a signature
playground at Midtown Park. The second company that the council
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engaged for the project presented its plans to the council yesterday.
Mayor Bobby Gatirez was already aware of the plans as
he and City Manager Keen Register traveled to places to
check out the components of what will be used in Brian.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
You'll know Keen actually played on one of these six.
He didn't get hurt and prank anything.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
All right, if it's and if Keene can do it,
if it's Keen proof, it's kid proof.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
That's our kind of our litanist us.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Construction of the twenty four thousand square foot playground is
expected to take fifteen months. The project cost is almost
three hundred thousand dollars under budget. Brian City Manager Keen
Register participated last night in his last city council meeting
before he retires, after receiving a proclamation he thinked a
lot of people. Beginning with four mayors, I was.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Very fortunate to be able to serve under the best
mayors that this city has ever had, Mark Conley, Jason Bienski,
Andrew Nelson and now Mayor Guitars.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Register also served with twenty one council members.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Absolute best city councils that anyone could ever want. I mean,
you guys are amazing and y'all are truly what makes
this city what it is. It makes my job easy.
We've always kind of had the same vision for the
city and I think as long as that's the case
in Sky's the.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Limit Register officially retires November third, after fifteen years as
manager and two stints as interim manager.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
If you drive.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
William Joel Brian Parkway around Sue Haswell Park, Brian police
officer Seth Waller says, new traffic signals are operating at
WJB and Culture.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
We've been used to forever just the stop signs there
on Culture, and like I said, now both those sides
have intersection lights, so be prepared to follow the lag.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Also activated are crosswalk signals on WJB at Haswell Park
where drivers will have to stop when those lights turn.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Red for right now.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Try to get everybody used to the new change, Educate
people as needed and that the citations need to go
out those will be handled accordingly while.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
They're also tells pedestrians and bicyclists to pay attention to
the new signals. Brian Belice also has a heads up
for motorists today at William Joel Bryan and Villa Maria,
old traffic signals are coming down and new signals are
being activated.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
The switch is expected to take most of today to complete.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
A Madisonville man is out of the Brazos County jail
after posting bond following his arrest last Saturday night for
causing a hit and run crash in Bran while driving
under the influence. The arrest report says forty three year
old Steve Avendano has two prior toy WI convictions in
Brazs County. No injuries were reported in the collision at
Villa Maria and Carter Creek. A witness followed Avendano to
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the parking lot of a convenience store along the freeway.
He's also charged with resisting arrest, and the arrest report
says it took two officers to hold him while blood
was being drawn at the hospital. Two Brian men remain
in jail following their arrest Saturday night on charges related
to a disturbance that involved a Molotov cocktail and gunfire.
Jail records show forty three year old Samuel Sanchez Avagier,
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who was accused of throwing the explosive device at another man,
is held for immigration authorities, and thirty one year old
Humberto Sanchez Junior, who was the target of the molotov cocktail,
is accused of firing his gun at Avallier. Sanchez is
also charged with violating parole. Court record show Sanchez was
sentenced eight years ago two twelve years in prison for
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armed robbery and two burglaries of a habitation ped arrest
reports do not show that anyone was injured in the
disturbance at the trailer park.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
On Oldhurn Road.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
The first message to the Texas A and M community
has been issued by the university's new interim president.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Tommy Williams, who graduated from A and M in nineteen
seventy eight, posted on the president's website that together with
students and employees, they will carry forward the same spirit
of service and unity that's to find the university that
next year will celebrate at one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Williams wrote that leadership transitions can be opportunities to reaffirm
A and M's mission, and Williams said former President Mark
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Walsh led with integrity, humility, and a steadfast commitment to
the university's mission. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to
five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
A group of sixteen people will recommend to the Texas
A and M System Board of Regents who will be
the next permanent president of the flagship campus before the
system announced who is on the search committee. Board of
Regent's chairman, Involve All Brittain of Fort Worth said last Friday,
there is no deadline.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
The most important thing is we get this right and
we will take our time and we will get to
the right input to make sure it's a great decision.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
All Britain is one of three regions who is on
the search committee. The group also includes the student body president,
former A and M President Elsa Morano, the university's chief
Community Engagement Officer, an m's athletics director, and one department head.
WTAW news time is seven thirty seven. It is seventy degrees.
News is presented by west Web All Britain, Gentry. More
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news at the top of the hour or online at
WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety
four to five WTAW.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
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for our low tomorrow night and around sixty on Friday.
We'll see it's seventy right now.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Texas A and M women's call team dominated day one
of the NB three match play. It is setting up
a championship opportunity this afternoon against number seventeen Arizona. That
coverage will be on the Golf Channel starting at three thirty.
We'll take a look at that and more coming up
in sports.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
All right, So I've got some insider information on this
Pittsburgh Christmas tree. So coming from somebody who grew up
in the area. They say that the tree is artificial
and it's not real. They also say it takes a
while to set up and doing it earlier, so they
have plenty of time to set up the ice rink
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on the tree's perimeter.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Gotcha. So it's a logistics it's.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
A logistics thing, and and you know the ice rink
opens up. The tree is not lit up until November
twenty second. Okay, so it's not necessarily up and you know,
looking all Christmas y too early, but truly it is
so that they can get the ice rink set up,
you know, ahead of time, and that is why the
tree goes up as early.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
As excellent investigative report.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, you appreciate our listeners who want to keep us informed.
So okay, so I thought this was a pretty funny story.
And you know, I again not a parent, but I
do understand a lot are and we talk about how
things are getting more expensive, including just having children in general.
So this woman, Hillary Grady is her name. She's shopping
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outside of Chicago. It's about a year ago, shopping for
groceries when her young daughter has said, you know, hey,
I really really want three years old. I really want
these berries and I want them now. So Mom, instead
of you know, waiting for this to escalate into screaming,
said okay, here, you can eat two of these berries
while I'm getting my groceries. About twenty minutes later, Mom
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looks down entire carton's gone. Oh yep, yep, completely gone.
So we had to go back to the produce section
and buy a whole nother one.
Speaker 12 (26:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The cashier gave me a strange look as he rang
up the empty carton, and I said, yes, I know,
we've already finished it.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
And mom got a crash course.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
In how a toddler's berry appetite can leave an asteroid
sized crater in a grocery budget. So they surveyed two
hundred and thirty seven parents about fruit buying budgets. Berries
represent a significant and terrifying expense. The average amount spent
on berries per month. This is including strawberries, blackberries, blueberries,
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and raspberries per month fifty three dollars. Okay, again, those
are strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Many respondents reports spending
two hundred dollars or more per month on berries, and
thirty two percent of respondents said their kids typically eat
a carton of berries in a single day.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
And you know, I get, you know, especially if you're
a kiddo and you're little, you've got little hands.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Apples are hard to eat, you know, Oranges, Mom's got
to peel them.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
There's a lot of other fruit.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Bananas, same thing, like somebody else has got to do
the work for you. You just stick a plateful of
blueberries in front of a kid, you let them go
to town r Yeah, and they are delicious berries healthy, Yep,
And they're very healthy. They say berries are the top
selling US fresh fruit. But they also can be very expensive.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Now.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
I saw a story this is probably three months ago.
They were discussing and they really kind of drilled down
because the problem and the reason they're expensive. I mean,
to get them from where they're produced to where they're consumed.
Sometimes it's a long distance and that can be a
whole lot of money.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
And because they don't have the protective skin.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Sure that a lot of other fruits do, they typically
can go. You know, their shelf life is much shorter.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
I'm assuming you know in different parts of the country now,
I think Chelsea. I don't know when you go up
to the Northeast. I don't know if you eat blueberries
up there, but I think they're much smaller up there
than they are down here. We get larger ones here,
and sometimes they taste different because it's much closer to
where they're grown. I mean up in Maine and New England,
they grow tons of tons of blueberries and stuff up there.
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Now we do a lot of well I say a lot.
We do more cantalope and grapefruit maybe and things like
that as opposed to those other berries. I don't know,
for instance, where raspberries are grown, not around here, but
getting them from there to here is expensive and apparently
especially in California, because they grow a ton of berries
out there, they have some ultra fresh fruits that are
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really expensive, I mean another twenty percent. And the problem
is if kids get hooked on that. Yeah, yeah, the
pars are really going to have a problem.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
Yeah, my kids got hooked on blueberries when they were
teething because we came up with a life hack. We
discovered it that you take frozen blueberries and you thaw
them just a little bit under running warm water, and
then you let your kids chew on them. You don't
want them frozen so they're not a choking hassard, but
you want them at a little cold and a little icy,
And it really helped with their teething. It also made
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them look like they ate a smurf, But other than that,
it was really great and they've they've been hooked on
them ever such.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, they say parents who have raised their kids on berries.
Obviously for the east of chewing for toddlers, also for
the antioxidants have also been pushed along by the very
visible hand of the produce industry. Driscolls, which you know
we've all seen, the largest berry seller in the US,
began working back in the nineteen eighties to make berries
available year round and more attractive in color, transforming them
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from a seasonal treat to a daily necessity.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
So this is not a new thing.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Okay, that's forty five years.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Yeah, they've been working on it. They've been arguing on it.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yet.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
In twenty seventeen, Driscoll's president told The New Yorker that
rather than operate as a typical produce company that sells
what it can grow, Driscolls sees itself as a consumer
products company.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
We create the demand. It's more like Procter and Gamble.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Man. What an interesting mindset, yep, and true, I mean,
I guess it works. I suppose if you now what
I use as an apple core when I eat an apple. Now,
just that thing is slams down and cuts them and
all that. If you take that and maybe I mean again,
and there's a choke hazard involved with apple pieces. But boy,
if you can get kiddos over to apples, that might
(31:04):
be a lord.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, they say per pound cost of blueberries, raspberries, and
blackberries is three times the cost of an apple and
eight to ten times the cost.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Of a banana.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Wow, they say, even clementines, the little ones are cheap
in comparison. Man, yeah, berries are, and that's that's I
don't buy berries a lot.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
I love berries, but I see how small.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
That little container is, and I see the price, and
I think to myself, I could eat that in a sitting,
which a toddler can do.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Of course I can.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And so unless I'm buying them specifically for a recipe
or you know, some kind of like you know, yeah, whatever,
I just I typically don't because the price is so expensive.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
And then you take that and you play the organic game.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Oh gosh, yeah, don't even get me started.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Through the room. I was comparing I think, raspberries the
other day, a dollar ninety seven or three ninety eight,
I mean, which were coming? Are you kidding at the
four dollars for one of those little containers of organic raspberries?
And they looked a little bit funkier too, just to
be honest with you, but man, that is serious. So
repeat again the apple and banana price percentage. Sure coast
(32:12):
of the berries, Sure parents understand.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, So the per pound cost okay, per pound cost
for raspberries seven dollars and seventy three cents, for blueberries
four dollars and sixteen cents. So you're getting a little
bit cheaper strawberries two dollars and ninety seven cents.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
But ultimately the.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Per pound cost of those berries is about three times
the cost of an apple, in eight to ten times
the cost of bananas.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Okay, you've been warned, right.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Good morning, I'm will welps with your morning sports update
on sixteen, twenty ninety four five WTA double four. The
Florida Gators maybe two to three on the season, but
they are obviously an improving team with the twenty nine
to twenty one victory over Texas last week weekend, and
they are full of SEC talent. Aggie linebacker cashi As Hall.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
It's an SEC quarterback, of SEC offensive line and SEC
everything that we play. So you know, obviously they're gonna
have some talent. They're gonna have playmakers, they're gonna have
people that can you know, do good things on that
ball or if they wouldn't play.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Their offensive lineman Trey Zoon is confident. It says the
team is paying attention to the details.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
They're very talented, but we're talented too, and we're a
veteran group, so there's not much we haven't seen and
there's not much that, yeah, we won't see. So we're prepared,
we're ready to go, and we're just focusing on the
little details, you know, technique and focus to you know,
not shoot ourselves on the foot during drives. You know,
if we're making plays, we need to be able to
move the ball down the field and not be taking
steps back with kind.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Of these Texas A and M hosts Florida on Saturday
at six o'clock, and as always, you can listen to
all things Aggie football on the Brian Broadcasting family of stations.
The number nine Texas A and M volleyball team returns
to Red Arena to host number three Kentucky in the
first top ten home matchup in program history tonight at six.
Kentucky has claimed the last three battles between the teams,
(34:04):
including last year's contest in Lexington. The two programs are
undefeated in league play. The Aggies are tied for the
top of the SEC at four and oh, while the
Wildcats are right behind at three and oh. The Texas
A and M softball team continues its home stand with
a three game stretch starting tonight at Davis Diamond. Admission
is free for all home games. The Merdin Widers sent
(34:25):
for a ten inning matchup tonight against Baylor, followed by
seven inning games against mcclennan on Thursday and Texas State
on Friday. Each game is scheduled for a six o'clock
first pitch. The number sixteen Texas A and M men's
golf team placed third at the Marquette Intercollegiate following yesterday's
round of one over two eighty nine. Aaron Pounds led
(34:45):
the Aggies, finishing tie for fourth place at three over.
It marked his second top five of the season. He
finished five strokes behind medallist Tyler Cowick of San Diego State.
The Aggies close out the fall slate coming up at
the end of this month at the Steer Collegiate Invitational
in Locksley, Alabama. The number four Texas and IN women's
golf team dominated New Mexico and New Mexico State to
(35:08):
earn eight points Tuesday to open the NB three match
play at twin Warriors, setting up a championship opportunity on
the Golf Channel today versus number seventeen Arizona. That coverage
begins at three point thirty this afternoon. Houston Texans general
manager Nick Cassio said yesterday that there is no timetable
for the return of running back Joe Mixon. Mixon didn't
(35:30):
participate in training camp and has been out all season
recovering from a foot injury he sustained in the off season.
He was eligible to come off the physically unable to
Perform lists last week, but remained out with no word
on when he would make his season debut. Mixon is
in his second year in Houston. After running for over
one thousand yards and eleven touchdowns last season, He's had
(35:51):
five one thousand yard seasons in an eight year career
that started in Cincinnati. The Texans have been splitting carries
between veteran Nick Chubb, who is in his first season
in Houston, and rookie Woodie Marx. That's your morning sports
Update on sixteen, twenty ninety four or five wtaw, I'm
will welch.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Good morning. About three minutes Jill, let's see infomaniacs On
a Wednesday. We're about to give away our prizes for today,
which is a pair of tickets to the prizes County
Care of Fair Rodeo, which is coming.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
Up next weekend.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
And then we've got the Texas Renaissance Festival which opens
up this weekend. Our question is what is the least
used room in your house?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, let us know nine seven, nine, six nine five
sixteen twenty. Somebody said we're empty nesters, so our kids'
bedrooms are the least used. Somebody else, my daughter's bedroom
she got married and moved to her own home. Yeah,
just basically guest bedrooms or old kids rooms.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
Yeah, sometimes happened.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
That's so sure, let us know and go ahead and
include your first and last name if you want a
chance to win.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
So today, as we mentioned, is pet Obesity Day. You
need to be aware of that.
Speaker 14 (36:52):
It's pet obesity Awareness Day. Now you can do something
for your overweight dog introducing phone Zipitch bone Bone. Is
it time to give bone Zepoch to your dog? We
say yes. If the mailman distracts him with ketchup packets.
When he jumps on the bed, it flings you off
(37:13):
like a catapult.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Bone bone bone bone.
Speaker 9 (37:16):
Z lone zempic. So your fat dog can be fat dog.
Gone there you go, don't laugh.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
Very true. So a new pole found. Gen z ers again.
Now that's people who were born I don't know. They're
like teenagers to twenty eight or so. Gen z adults
are more generation are the generation that wants a calming environment,
in fact, complete silence on their morning commute. They don't
want to listen to us.
Speaker 9 (37:47):
Well, okay, they don't know what they're missing.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
Fifty five percent of zoomers claim that they enjoy driving
in total silence. They're also the most likely to use
their drive to mentally pro says their workday, and the
most likely to take it occasional nap in their car.
Oh dear, yeah all right. The survey looked at how
different generations use their time in the car, and each
(38:11):
age group is different. Millennials are the most likely to
think about the future or make plans while driving. Some
more obsessed are multitasking, and they're trying to be productive.
And you got it, you gen xers. Congrats, you're the
ones who are really cool. Gen Xers the generation most
likely to rock it out on their morning commute. Eighty
(38:31):
nine percent are listening to music or like the Infomaniacs
or something like that for a top quality drive activity.
So there, we appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
The most common sentence in the Harry Potter books is
nothing happened.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
The most common sentence in the Twilight books was I sighed, I.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Okay, so nothing happened.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
The word dilemma originally meant a choice between two tough
options three options. Was a triline
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