October 8, 2025 • 42 mins
Winner! Dottie’s last training class. Baby rhino. Mars. Where’s Francine? Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez. AI wrestling match – Ross vs Rogers. Painting auctions. Tacos and margs. Hurricane season.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
WTAW.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
News time is five minutes after eight, it is seventy
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Brian Police announces traffic signals have been turned on at
(00:24):
William J. O'Brian and Colter, and crosswalk signals have been
activated along WJB at su Haswell Park.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
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 2 (00:38):
Officer 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 Gutier has endorsed the sign having
traveled to check out the work of the companies that
will be manufacturing and installing the equipment.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We're in Arizona looked at some examples of what they've done.
I was amazed at 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 the way up.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
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 5 (01:27):
Thank you all, and I'm not going anywhere. I'll 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 2 (01:42):
Among others, Register thing to City of Brian employees.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
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 2 (01:55):
Register served four mayors and twenty one council members during
his fifteen years a city manager. Texas A and M's
new interim president issues his first message.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
On the A and M 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
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yet to be announced series of listening sessions to ensure
a seamless handoff to the permanent President, Bill Oliver sixteen
twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The Texas A and M System has 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, Chairman Bob Albritton of Fort Worth,
said last Friday, there is no deadline.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
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 2 (02:55):
The sixteen member committee also includes three members of the
president's cabinet, two deans, chair of the university's staff Council
and the last speaker of the Faculty Senate before it
was eliminated by state lawmakers. WTAW news time is eight
minutes after eight. It's seventy degrees. News is presented by
David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More news at eight thirty
or online at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen,
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twenty ninety four to five WTA W eight ten.
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Let's advertise that because it's gonna be sixty degrees on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
We'll be looking forward to that movie Gamma, What Thanks?
Speaker 8 (03:53):
What was that I was. I was trying to dial
and I don't know how I got that. That was
a fun number. Yeah, I wonder what I dialed, because
you know that was speaking to me in Spanish. It
was that wonderful particular.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Scriber you have dialed is not in service if you
feel you received this message.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Okay, I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
One more time, yep, and let me just you know,
I always like to know, sure you should.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
I know you're right ninety nine percent of the time, but.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I think I've been right. Yeah, one hundred percent of
the time.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Yeap, could be the time. Oh, yes, No, I wrote
it down wrong. Okay, I wrote I transcribed it and
I wrote it down wrong. And that was a And
there's so many different different prefixes and numbers and cell phones.
Now you have no idea?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
What about right nine seven nine. That's a bizarre one.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
No, no, it was the other that was the first
three digits after died seven nine back in the old days.
There's just one that's right. Yeah, by the way that
we'll tell you that story a little little. The old
guy here, if we can talk to our winner today,
which we.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Hi, is this Tamra, Yes, hey, Tamra This is Chelsea
and Scott will Yay, we are the info maniacs and
guess what, you're a winner this morning.
Speaker 10 (05:05):
Oh great, that's terrific.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, so, Tama, what are you up to this morning?
Speaker 10 (05:10):
I have already started work and just getting busy today.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Can I ask for you? Can I ask where you work?
Speaker 10 (05:17):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Can I ask where you work?
Speaker 10 (05:19):
Yes? I work for the Brian i C Education Foundations.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh excellent. Well listen.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
We don't want to take up too much time because
I know you're busy, but we did ask this morning
what is the least used room in your house?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What did you text in? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (05:34):
I said our sun rooms because it is way too
hot to ease it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I love the idea of a sunroom, though. Do you
get to use it a lot more once it cools off,
more so in the winter and whatnot? Oh?
Speaker 10 (05:47):
For sure, yeah we do so certain times of the
year we get to use it, but otherwise, my plants
and my dog love the room.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well listen, Tama, We've got tickets for you to Brass's
Valley Rodeo and the Texas Renaissance Festival. All you gotta
do is come up to the radio station to pick
those up whenever you get a chance. We're on the
top floor of the Guarantee Bank building.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Okay, wonderful, thank you, all right, thank you. Have a
great rest of your day.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
You too, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Bet.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I've always thought having a a sun room, some kind
of enclosed like patio situation.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh that just sounds awesome.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
Yep, yep, be able to enjoy the ad doors kind
of bringing.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Without having to be outside. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
So what tonight is the big graduation for Dottie?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Well, I you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So it is her last training class. Yes, and my
dad even asked that. He was like, oh, so does
she get a certificate? Yeah, I have no idea. I'm
not sure, to be honest, but it is her last
training class. We have had a wonderful experience. She has
learned so much. I have learned probably even more. And yeah,
it's just been it's been a lot of fun and
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it's been a great like bonding opportunity for the.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Both of us.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
So how many classes was it?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It was so six total sessions, but the first one
was just for humans.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So this will be her fifth session tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And I mean truly we have learned everything that I
wanted to in terms of just sit different, you know
different really not really well a release word, yeah, different
commands cues, that's what that's the word that we like
to use.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And just you know, being.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Able to then use all of what I've learned if
I want to teach her even.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
More, I can. So you've got the tools now, the
too exactly.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
So was there anything about her personality that you wanted
to train?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
No, she's perfect, Scott, No, uh her.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And the thing is, I think our trainer has kind
of emphasized that you can't change their personality, like that's
their personality. It would be like some you know, someone
trying to train you to not ask questions.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And and she's also emphasized like there are some things
that are very breeds. Specifically I mentioned I said, you know,
one of the things when we walk, she's a good walker,
but if she sees a bird or something moving, I
mean she wants at it, like she takes off.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I said, is there.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Any way to kind of, you know, prevent her from
doing that? And she goes, Oh, the problem is she's
a terrier, Like she's got terrier in her that's just
terrier breed, like she's a hunter to some extent, she goes. Now,
there are things you can do to maybe distract her
or to try to get her to change directions and
things like that she goes, But there's there's some things
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with certain breeds that you're just not going to be
able to change. That's in their blood. And so it's
more so of how to work with what you have.
And then then obviously you know the different cues. And
she's been really good at everything that I have wanted
to teach her.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Yeah, that's so great.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
The last dog we had was she was scared. She
was just a frightened dog, which tells me because it's
a rescue that's just kind of.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And we have some of those in our class, like
we have some that, I mean one just last week
she was really really shut down at the beginning of class,
but eventually kind of started to get a little bit better.
And and you know they do things in class that
can kind of help that. But but yeah, that and
I will say I think I was more surprised at
Dottie and her ability to be in a classroom full
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of other humans and other dogs and stay so focused
on me well and the food, yeah, exactly, So.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Everything is going to beat related if you do behavioral
changes now means that.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, which luckily, I mean, she's so small, like that
bag of fish food that you gave me. Basically, I
don't like to bring that out in public because it
smells like fish food, but she loves it. And those
are really really small good treats. Will the ones you
gave me, same thing, Those are great and those are
going to last me a while, so it's not like
I'm going through well even hot dogs. Hot dogs are
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not expensive, and that's you know, that's a lot of
what we use in class and things like that.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yep, like little bitty cuts to.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well exactly, and that's what you know, the trainer, the
very first class. I remember, she came over, she goes, oh,
we need to get your your little treats like cut
down even more, like she doesn't need it, She just
needs a little taste to keep going. And so keeping
I mean, will even the ones you gave me, they're small,
I still cut those up even oh yeah, because again,
you know, an hour worth of work.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Now I won't work.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
With her for an entire hour at home, but during
the class an entire hour of work.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I mean, she's getting fed a lot, so.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
She is the pleasure button that is responsible for the learning.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So you'll just need yeah, you just need the little taste,
but no, it'll she'll definitely be we'll definitely.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Stay treat motivated throughout our training.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Can tell us how much it costs.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yes, So it was two hundred dollars for the six sessions,
and that came with the clicker, which is you know
what we also use to train with horsemen, yep, yep,
clicker training, and the pouch I look like such a dowe.
It's like the fanny pack pouch that you put the
treats in and then that way they're like right there
on your hip. And then it also came with like
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a trainer's manual and then just some like other clicker
tips and things like that. So so yeah, two hundred dollars,
like I said, for the six sessions and then plus
the clicker in the pouch. So I thought it was
a great deal for everything that I got.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Again, if you got a young dog and you've you're
able to get the behavior that you want out of it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They do a puppy class and this is by the
I'll go ahead and plug them. Puppy Love Training is
the name of the company and they they work out
of America's Country Store.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Okay, so that's where we go, right on welburn yep.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And they also have agility courses and like agility classes,
so if you're interested in that. And then they do
have puppy specific classes for dogs that are are actual
like puppy in age. Ours is just like your basic obedience.
So they have a lot of different options.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
It's a lot of people buy they'll get a dog
and they don't really know how to train it, that's
for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I had no idea, I mean truly, like that's I
was like, I can't tell if she just doesn't know
how to sit or I'm not doing a good job,
you know. And and again I have learned just as much,
if not more than she had during this this whole
you know, experience, because again I had no idea, you know,
how to actually conduct the training. And sure you can
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watch YouTube videos and things like that, but to actually
have somebody who's also she like my trainer sees Dottie
every week and so she's also interacting with her and
giving me tips specifically based on Dotty, because you know,
the way Dottie is learning is different than Max, the
doberman is different.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
There, they are good funs.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
He will too.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Yet one I'd say twenty one, and see if.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
We made a second day in a row. That one's gotcha.
I know it.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
I thought they were done.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I was editing.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I was editing yesterday and I was like, oh, yeah,
that's where that's where Scott got the wing.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
That's it, all right, there you go. So uh, speaking
of animals and stuff, it's baby time. Huh.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
It is baby time. In Ohio Zoo, they are asking
members of the public to help name a critically endangered
Eastern black rhino caf that was born very recently. There,
here's the unfortunate thing. They are not asking us to
come up with names. Oh they are. They are. You
can vote on their suggested names, which are McKenna, which
means happy one, Kenza, which means treasure, and Kamari, which
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translates to like the moon.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Oh okay, very sweet.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Names, but we all know that the general public can
do so so much better. Yes, so yeah, And it
is a cute little thing. It's wobbling around. There's no
video there. So the names that that others have come
up with other than those lovely things that mean moonshine
and whatever else. How about these Rhino Reynolds would be
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about the grunty mchorn face.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
I like that.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Yeah, that harkens back to the boat Rhinanzi.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Said a Beyonce.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
Okay, stompy meczoomer, another throwback there. I love this one,
Elon Tusk all right, Rhino Grande. How about that one?
Ryan and Rinnie the Pooh. So that's that's what they've
got going on there and naming, uh, you know, toss
some good ones out. I'm sure listeners can come up
with a tone.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh yeah, I started following on Instagram. I started following
a baby pygmy hippo.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
His name is Mars.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
He lives in the oh the Tanga Nico Wildlife Park
in Kansas, of all places. Yeah, so he lives here
in the United States, and they have made him pretty
viral on Instagram because his he he will fall asleep
in his outdoor habitat. He's just taking a nap and
they need to move him back inside at like the
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end of the day. And you know, just like anything
that's kind of dead weight and doesn't want to be
moved and like he's a baby, but he's still getting
pretty big, right, I mean he is a hippo, And
so they have all of these videos of his keepers
like trying to move him back into or he'll like.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Run into the pond and swim away.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And yes, it's really cute, but yeah, Mars Mission Control,
that's what they call page nice.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Well, while we're on the uh the whole animal kick right.
Volunteers at the Low's store in Richmond, Virginia, they had
a apparently a missing store They had a storecat okay, okay,
and the storecat goes missing. Well, storecats are good. I
mean they you know, they take care of them. Oh yeah, whatever,
it's always a good thing. This is His name is Franccene,
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and Francine apparently ended up in the Low's distribution center
in North Carolina from Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
She boxed, well, yeah, cats, I mean they like boxes.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Wandered probably wandered into an empty box right exactly, and
then they shipped her. Yeah, went missing since September. They
found her though alive.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
They launched a where they launched a where's Francine campaign. Okay,
had an Instagram account going on, and after weeks of searching,
which included thermal drones, Francceine was found a few days ago. Okay, yeah,
so there.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
You go, the Mystery of Francene.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
I had a big homecoming celebration there in the low.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Store now back in Richmond, Virginia, where Francine belonged when
I was in.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
This is super random, but we were talking about store
cats I was in when I was in Michigan. We
were my mom and I were just like walking different
shops and stores and whatnot. And we walked into kind
of just like a little boutique, you know, they had
different like stationary. It just a little gift store kind
of and I'm looking at something and all of a sudden,
I see this movement out of the peripheral. It is
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one of those like links cats, like the I mean,
it's a cat, but it looks like a lynx, like
it has the.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Pointy ears kind of.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And they're huge, like they're like one of the biggest
household cats you can have. And it was just laying
in the storefront window display and I was like, oh, okay, yeah,
you belong here. I just but it was just you know,
it wasn't like your typical little tabby cat like you
know on the shelf. It was like this monster cat
in the in the window display.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But I do love a good store animal.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Against I will go into a store specifically for an animal,
even if there's nothing in there that I'm interested in.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
WTAW news time is eight thirty two. It's seventy three degrees.
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'm Chelsea reeberb 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 engaged for the project
presented its plans to the council yesterday. Mayor Bobby Getirez
was already aware of the plans, as he and city
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Manager Keen Registered traveled to places to check out the
components that will be used in Brian.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
She'll know Keen actually played on one of these things.
He didn't get hurt and break anything.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
All right, it's and if Keen can do it, if
it's Keen proof, it's kid proof.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's our kind of our litanus test.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
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. Speaking of Brian City
Manager Keen Register, he participated last night in his last
city council meeting before he retires after receiving a proclamation,
he thinks a lot of people, beginning with four mayors.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I was very fortunate to be able to serve under
the best mayors that this city has ever had, Mark Connolly,
Jason Biinski, Andrew Nelson and now Mayor Gatar's.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Register also served with twenty one council.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Members, absolute best city councils that anyone could 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, Scott's the limit.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Register officially retires November three, after fifteen years as manager
and two stints as interim manager. If you drive William
Joel Brian Parkway around Sue Haswell Park, Brian Belize Officer
Seth Waller says, new traffic signals are operating at WJB
and Culture.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
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'll be prepared to follow.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
The lag also activated our crosswalk signals on WJB at
Haswell Park where drivers will have to stop when those
lights turn.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Red for right now. 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.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
While it also tells pedestrians and bicyclists to pay attention
to the new signals. Brian Belie also has a heads
up for motorists at William Joel Bryan and Villa Maria
today old traffic signals are coming down and new signals
are being activated. That switch is expected to take most
of today to complete. A Madisonville man is out of
the Brass County jail after posting bond following his arrest
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last Saturday night for causing a hit and run crash
in Brian while driving under the influence. The arrest report
says forty three year old Steve Avendano has two prior
DWY convictions in Brass County. No injuries were reported in
the collision at Villa Maria in Carter Creek. A witness
followed Avendano to a parking lot of a convenience store
along the freeway. He was also charged with resisting arrest,
(20:26):
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 Ovalet, who was accused of throwing the
explosive device at another man, is held for immigration authorities,
(20:48):
and thirty one year old Umberto Sanchez Junior was the
target of the Molotov cocktail. He's accused of firing his
gun out of volas. Sanchez is also charged with violating parole.
Court records show that he was sentenced to twelve years
in prison eight years ago for an armed robbery and
two burglaries of a habitation. BPD arrests reports do not
show anyone was injured in the disturbance at a trailer
(21:09):
park on Oldharn Road. The first message to the Texas
A and M community has been issued by the university's
new interim president.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
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 T 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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Welsh led with integrity, humility, and a steadfast commitment to
the university's mission. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to
five WTAW a.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
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 was on the search committee, Board of Regent's
chairman Bob all Britton of Fort Worth said last week
there is no deadline.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
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 2 (22:09):
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, A and m's athletics director, and one
department head. WTAW news time is eight thirty seven. It's
seventy three degrees. More news anytime at WTAW dot com.
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I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAWSA thirty eight. It's a
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(22:54):
sixty that'll be pretty nice. Visit the Mayor's on Wednesday,
and Bobby Gataris is here this morning from the city. Brian,
how are you today?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
How are you doing good? I understand that you have
a city manager who gets on slides and swings and
does dangerous stuff. Is that it? But he passes the
kid test.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
He did pass the gifts. It didn't break anything. Normally
he breaks all kinds of stuff when he gets on
anything at all.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
I've heard that story.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Anything that moves, he can break it.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Yep, okay, But anyhow y'all want it. You're getting a
new playground kind of give us the concept of what
the what kind of playground facilities you're gonna have.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
So this playground donated, you know, by the you know,
generous donation of dug and Care French Foundation. They have
gone above and beyond. We matched that for the city brime,
we matched that the taxpayers in the city all a council.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
It started out as something that was really really unbelievable.
We looked at it. You know, we had this other
company that came in. They won the bid. We looked
at the bid. It was not it didn't give us value.
We canceled it, or I should say when I was
in that meeting. I said, I canceled us. So I'm
not doing this because it doesn't bring any value. This
doesn't look good. Another company, Lone Star Recreation, came in
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and they brought us something. We had a lotunch and
it was Austin Firtek and he comes against Bobby. I
just want to present something to if you would look
at it again. And I was really upset because ultimately,
not only are the French as paying for this thing,
but we're the citizens of Brian are paying for it
as well, and we want something of value there. We
wanted a destination part to go to Austin. We had
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lunch and he shows me all this stuff and we're
going through all this presentation and it was beautiful. I
mean it was like this was like three or four
times what the people were giving us before for the
five million dollars we're going to spend. And he goes,
you're going to love this when you get to the
back page. You're really going to love it. And we
get back to the back page and it was so
much better than we were looking at before. It was
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like two point seven million dollars. And I said, well
that's great. I said, but we've allocated five million basically
for this thing. I said, give me the most you
can give me for the five million dollars. Take this
back and we'll get this thing through. What we are
getting with the citizens of Brian are getting and this
is a free playground is unbelievable. I mean, we have
shade structure, we've moved things around, We've done you know,
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we've worked really hard to make it what we would
think would be the best place anybody would want to
go hang out. I don't want to go hang out there.
And we've taken a step further too, because as I'm
looking at that, we've visited other parks, We've visited across
the country. We've visited these different parks and stuff that
they've done in the past. This is really really nice.
But I've seen where you up to a park benches,
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you know, sponsored by Scott Delusion, another another thing sponsored
by WTAW. Another one's house Attires, another one's just in
Bobby Getari's whatever it is there everything you were there,
and these people hang out there all day long with
their kids, the strollers, the wives, you know, stay at
home moms, stay home dads, whatever it be. They have
their computers there, they're working from home with the kids
get to play and they could sit on these mountains
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and watch across the whole thing. So phase two of
this park is going to be, you know, how much
we can raise to sponsor and get the name plates
put on these different things exactly the same, same exact concept.
But we're going to do that as well. So you know,
all the different businesses in town, all the different companies
in town, all the different people in the time, if
you want to have your name, you want to have
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your mom's name, whatever in memory of.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Got a little revenue stream going there.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
And let's expand this thing to it something even bigger.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
And so where's the location. Where's it going to be.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It's right in between the MBG and Legends event Center
on the boardwalk. It's right in the middle of it.
So it'll be and there's a there's a pathway where
we're building the boardwalk right now, so that pathway goes
right across. We have the bathrooms going on over there there.
We have a separate company that's to do in the
bathrooms and these are you know, it's it's really neat
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the way the bathroom set up We looked at one
in Phoenix, Arizona. That was where, you know, you're able
to see everything that's going on, and.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
It was air conditioned.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Well, we'll see, we'll see if it's gonna be air conditioned.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Breaking news, now, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Okay, all right, it was really really cool, but but
everything shaded out there. So you know, we you know,
we're Texas and it's hot. You don't want to sit
outside in the middle of the day off us and
it's hot and you're you know, miserable. So we've thought
of every o. I say, we thought it. We thought
of most most stuff. I'm sure there's things we had
not thought of. And after we're finished, people will tell
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us what we didn't think of.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
All right, Well, now that that's nice, that's a neat thing.
While we're talking about midtown and developments down there, where
are we with a trolley from Brian to College Station
and back and forth.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, that's a great question. We're you know, we two
years ago, three years ago. Now, we we did the
whole trolley thing. We've talked about it. We went with
the Chamber of Commerce, and Chamber Commerce was going to
lead this because it's something that's very much needed from
Ego from downtown to midtown to you know what we're
calling North and North Gate or Uptown and then College
Station everything else just a major, major corridor. And then
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you know Texas A and M needing all the stuff
to get facilities from the campus to downtown where they
have classes and stuff as well, and they have you
know people there. Calle Station signed off on a letter
of support for us, and you know, we got that
thing allocated. We're waiting on BTD Brass Transit District right
now to get these things done. And then all of
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a sudden we find out that you know, I guess
basically Brian Woods has said, no, we're not going to
do anything. It's going to help the city of Brian.
We're just not gonna do we we'll do a trolley
between well.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
You mean he said that, but he wrote it someplace
or he was quoted at some place.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Or where can In one of the Briest transit meetings,
you know, there was this one of those things that
we're just there's a lot of you know, points of
contention on this saying this thing that would help downtown
from downtown to midtown, from midtown to Union Hill, from
Union Hill to Northgate, Northgate to ms C, MSc to
Century Square and then back around. So it's just it
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just it helps both cities. But what I'm hearing now
from everybody else and from BTD and everybody that's, well,
they're not going to do something it's going to help Brian.
We're not going to participate. We don't care, and Brian,
we don't care because we're truly one community.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
And well, I hope so that doesn't sound good for.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
One is good for the other. And that's where we're
at today. So you know, it's just it's one of
the differences between our city managers kind of.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
There was a lot a discussion about data centers in
College Station that got voted down before it was ever
actually going to be a data center. Do we have
data centers happening in Brian? If we do, what would
that look like.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
We passed the data center about four years ago, this
conjunction with Texas A and M and Relis Campus out there
on the northwest corner of Brazes County. It's out in
the country, it's in Relis. We have one across the
street that you know, some owner annexation they asked for request.
Everybody I know they're up in arms about the six centers.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
They're noisy.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
It's a whole different kind of noise. So ours is
not a noisy one. Ours is going to be electrified
through BTU if we have the power. So we have
the three forty five line that's being proposed right now,
that could be here two years, three years, four years,
however long that takes to get here. What this rezoning
was was the ability for them across the street from
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Realist to put a data center in if in fact
that's what they want to do. This is not the
saying there's going to be a data center, and a
data center would only come in if there's generation. So
the one they were proposing in Calle Station was going
to be gas turbines. Now turbines is just like what
you think of the jet engine, and they are very
noisy and you have to have quite a few of
them to make enough generation to produce for a data center.
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Ours is going to be electric. It's just like plugging
anything you want to do. There's no nois there's no anything.
It's just a plug. And just as these mics are
plugged in right now, that's the same kind of noise.
There is no noise in what we're going to do.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
Okay, So and that's not just in college station. Data
centers are being built all over America, there's no doubt
about that. Well, then that also then brings to the
mind of is there an opportunity for something like a
data center to be built within the city limits of Brian.
Would Brian have any interest in that?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Well, there's a difference between data center and bitcoin mining, right,
so the water and everything else that people are talking
about for that, when you do bitcoin mining, it's a
generation heat cooling, everything else. We would never do a
bitcoin mind, We just wouldn't do it because at some
point they're gone and they're at and then you're just
stuck with a something. Data is something that we're going
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to have for the rest of our lives and generation
to come. I mean, every time you pick up your phone,
it's connected to a data center somewhere in the world.
If you think that you know the AI generation that
we're doing right now, if you go to chat, GPT
or to whatever you're going to gem and I, there
is data center connected to that device that you have
in your hand and it's got to go somewhere. We're
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going to have to have him. We have to have it.
So if we're going to stay in the forefront of
all technology and everything around the world, then we're going
to have to have this.
Speaker 8 (31:39):
As we continue on, Amazon and course have their drones
have left College Station and they're not going to do anything.
There is Amazon doing anything in Brian We.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Have the facility we announced, we haven't I mean I
missed it. I've been out of town.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Maybe I missed it.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I don't know. So we have a big facility over
in Texas Triangle Park just about completed now. They didn't
want us to tell a whole bunch about it until that.
We're going to do a big groundbreaking or ribbon cutting
or whatever it's going to be after the first of
the year. They want to be up and operational before
Christmas because they want to be using this thing. It's
called last Mile. We used to get next day service,
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same day service from Amazon in our area is a
underserved area. So they have this last mile company that
comes in and builds those facilities that have to be
done right now. They're planned out for generations to go.
But the ones that are the last mile, they're the
fastest and they go up and these guys, I've never
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seen a building go up as fast as I've seen
that one before. I go one week and they were
clearing the land. I go the next week. There's already
seamen on the ground that next week. They if you
go out there now, you're going to be amazed. We
just talked about it last month and it's it's a
huge facility. We even offered if you know, this is
the middle of the country, if you want to bring
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drones back, you know this is this won't disrupt It's
not in the middle of a neighborhood. We're pretty thought
driven of the way we do things. We think about
things way out in the front of this is in
the industrial zone, and it would work out there.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
So we could get drone delivery back. It just might
be from a Brian based facility exactly.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
That's going to be up to them. That's not up
to us. You know, it's it is an option. It's
not going to be in the middle of a community
anything else. This morning, you know, we just yeah, Scott
was like we were talking about, we have so many
good things happening right now. The city Brian. I mean,
it's just it's it's a great time to be on council.
It's a great time to you know, to be serving.
I mean it's just everything seems to be hitting on
our watch.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Glad, glad, it's working for you, all right. That's Bobby
Terry's is Mary or Brian? Thanks the time, this morning,
good morning gets here it from any acts. It's about
seven or eight minutes till so AI. I mean we
can it doesn't matter what it is. You can do
a story about it, right, I can be good bad whatever. Sure,
this is rather interesting. Someone has used AI to create
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a video and audio of a wrestling match. Okay, okay
between Bob Ross the painter right and mister Rogers.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
So we j here we got here. It is in
this place, King.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
That's mister Rogers walk into the ring and he's got
Marilyn been.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Rolling on his arm.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
I never thought i'd see this on Monday night.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Rock mister Rogers.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
It's a beautiful day to paint this canvas with your blood.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
Rogers swings speak they.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Ca there are just pulls it off. Syste the happy
little painter, just kit mister Rogers and he's the nineteen
ninety seven World Wrestling Federation heavyweight champion.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
I mean, I'm gonna give it a thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
There it is, yeah, video, I mean no, I didn't.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
Okay, well there there's video of it. Okay, so it's
it's rather fun.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I'll put that on my to do list. Okay, therest
of my busy work. Yeah, yeah, busy work.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Thirty paintings. Speaking of the aforementioned, Bob Ross will soon
be auctioned to supports small and rural public TV stations
they're facing budget cuts. Auction will take place in Los
Angeles November the eleventh. Subsequent events will happen in London,
New York, Boston, and online. All money raised will go
to the stations benefited from the uh connect distribute from
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the content that is distributed by American public television. Bob
passed away in nineteen ninety five, so he hadn't been
painting lately. You know, it's been thirty years now.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Oh his painting. Yeah, okay, okay, I've heard painting auction.
I was sure.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Okay, Bob so famous of course for did you ever
watch his show?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I mean I've seen clips of it, but I never
watched Let's make some happy Little Tree.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, And you know, and I feel like i've seen it,
you know, as I've gotten older and people have like
resurfaced different clips and things like that. You know, I
wasn't watching it in its heyday.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Per se.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
You know, I've read someplace where he was actually he was.
He was raucous, he was emotional, and you're going, wait.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
A minute, really, okay, yeah, wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (35:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
And he would always created, you know, within thirty minutes,
because that was how long his show.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Oh sure.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
It's called The Joy of Painting. Two Ross paintings sold
earlier in August fetched one hundred and fourteen thousand, ninety
five thousand dollars. They're hoping that they can get about
a million and a half dollars out of the Bob
Ross painting.
Speaker 9 (36:13):
I have a friend who's a giant fanatic. I mean,
he's not a fan, he's a fanatic. Yeah, I don't
understand it, but he is.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
I've I've never seen a Bob Ross painting in person,
so I don't know exactly what that would necessarily be.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
But they're always like pretty landscapes. Since, right, that's pretty trees.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
Yeah, I think that's it. Yeah, right, exactly, So they
got that going on. So the the tonight on or no,
it's dropping today on Netflix. Is it cake? Have you
seen an Is it cake?
Speaker 5 (36:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
No, but I can imagine where you're going. They are,
they're prett yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
This one is a Halloween of the kind of is
it a cake? You see whatever? So it's on tonight.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
It's yeah, he's like realistic cakes that look obviously like
actual object of you know, paintings and beach balls and
hamburgers and you know whatever. So maybe this will be
pretty wilds and sure, yeah, Halloween version love that.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
So the weather is so nice here. I mean we've
been talking about how it's going to get down to
sixty but weird.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it has not been
so nice. It has been so hot. Yes, it has
been so hot, you think so, Yes, I went so
I took part in Taco Day yesterday. I went to
a local establishment that was having a taco deal and
I thought, you know what, Okay, they have plenty of
shade on their patio. I'm gonna sit out on the patio.
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And I was out there for a while and they
had fans on. I mean they were doing everything they
could to kind of keep it comfortable.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
No, it is so hot outside and it's not pleasant. Yeah,
it really not.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Now in the mornings it's been you know, when I've
been leaving my apartment and I have to walk from
my front door to my car.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
Sure, nothing to complain about.
Speaker 10 (37:56):
There.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
The evenings you can kind of feel it start to
break a little bit.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
But midday all right, okay, so.
Speaker 8 (38:04):
I take it all right, So Thursday it'll be nice.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
How was the taco Oh it was delicious. Okay, yeah,
it was good. The margarita was better.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
You go girl, mar there were margarita specials too.
Speaker 9 (38:17):
I mean, you just have a taco special.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
So when my cleaning fairies are at my apartment, oh, yes,
I can't be there, and so I've I've got to
find time to kill There are only so many errands
you can run. I you know, I guess I could
go hang out at my you know, my parents' house.
I guess I could be like up here doing work,
but I don't want to margarita. Yeah, And so yesterday
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I was like, I'm gonna go sit on the patio.
I did have my iPad. I was like answering some
emails and doing some things.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
But yeah and so and then you know, even.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
With a margarita, I was still just like sweating by
the end of my visit.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
This is enough, Okay, got it, so understood, So a
massive fat So we were talking about the weather. So
how about hurricanes we haven't had. I mean we are
now to October the eighth through what November, we've had one.
Speaker 9 (39:08):
Yeah, maybe one hurricane. Actually none that have hit the US.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Okay, sad.
Speaker 9 (39:13):
Yeah, there have been hurricanes, but they've all kind of
glanced off. This is the first season in ten years
that no hurricanes have made landfall through the end of September.
Although it has happened in multiple years in the past,
it's just been a long time. I think the latest
was twenty thirteen, but it has happened several times in
the past.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
But they are always saying global war to climate change.
Climate change is causing the storms to become more intense
than they've ever been. And that might be true, but
if they're not having it at all, the more intense
than that. So that's that's what always makes me wonder.
You know, nature's a system, it's a real jit system.
It's always changing it is, and it's going to do
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something no matter what we do to it. You know
that they change the way that things happen. But I
find that really odd that.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
We have It has been a little bizarre three.
Speaker 9 (40:04):
Quarters of the way through the season, and it's less
likely in the third quarter or the fourth quarter of
the season for us to have storms, but they can't happen.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah, so I we'll keep it hone like you said,
we as in just like the United States and general like,
there hasn't been anything this day.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
In eighteen eighteen, two English boxers became the first to
use petted gloves. Of course they were English.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Course they were.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
They couldn't and now they can't even make a fist.
But now it makes me wonder because then they.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Were like, how much longer can we make this fight last?
It's probably smart for like the betterers and you know,
obviously the athletes and stuff, but to think about it
all the way back in eighteen eighteen.
Speaker 8 (40:44):
That's a good point, that be it.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, yeah, we can take a few more hits. We
can make this last longer.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
We can you know, the Bess can be going.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Yeah, that'll that'll be good. Warner Brothers is going to
celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of Harry Potter and The
Sorcerer's Stone with a worldwide theatrical re release.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Oh okay, do you have any interest in seeing those
again in theaters? I actually think it would be fun.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Yeah yeah, but you saw them all the originals all
in theaters, correct, right, correct.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
And it is one of those It is one of
those movies that it just hits different on a big screen.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
It has some scale, right yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Absolutely, absolutely, so yeah, I would definitely consider going back
to a theater and seeing it.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
Most successful, one of the most successful franchises in history
back in two thousand and one. Now get this, Matt
Damon okay, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, birthday. He will
portray Frank Stallone's senior father of Sylvester Stallone in an
Amazon MGM Studies Studios movie called I Play Rocky Huh.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
It's going to be directed by one of the Fairly Brothers. Okay,
And they got some guy who I've never heard of
who's going to play Sylvester Slow. It's the story of Sylvester.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
Stallone about that.
Speaker 8 (41:52):
They're going to make a movie about that. Okay, we'll shoot.
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Brian Police announces traffic signals have been turned on at
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William J. O'Brian and Colter, and crosswalk signals have been
activated along WJB at su Haswell Park.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
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 2 (00:38):
Officer 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 Gutier has endorsed the sign having
traveled to check out the work of the companies that
will be manufacturing and installing the equipment.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We're in Arizona looked at some examples of what they've done.
I was amazed at 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 the way up.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
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 5 (01:27):
Thank you all, and I'm not going anywhere. I'll 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 2 (01:42):
Among others, Register thing to City of Brian employees.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
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 2 (01:55):
Register served four mayors and twenty one council members during
his fifteen years a city manager. Texas A and M's
new interim president issues his first message.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
On the A and M 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
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yet to be announced series of listening sessions to ensure
a seamless handoff to the permanent President, Bill Oliver sixteen
twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The Texas A and M System has 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, Chairman Bob Albritton of Fort Worth,
said last Friday, there is no deadline.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
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 2 (02:55):
The sixteen member committee also includes three members of the
president's cabinet, two deans, chair of the university's staff Council
and the last speaker of the Faculty Senate before it
was eliminated by state lawmakers. WTAW news time is eight
minutes after eight. It's seventy degrees. News is presented by
David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More news at eight thirty
or online at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen,
(03:18):
twenty ninety four to five WTA W eight ten.
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Let's advertise that because it's gonna be sixty degrees on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
We'll be looking forward to that movie Gamma, What Thanks?
Speaker 8 (03:53):
What was that I was. I was trying to dial
and I don't know how I got that. That was
a fun number. Yeah, I wonder what I dialed, because
you know that was speaking to me in Spanish. It
was that wonderful particular.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Scriber you have dialed is not in service if you
feel you received this message.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Okay, I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
One more time, yep, and let me just you know,
I always like to know, sure you should.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
I know you're right ninety nine percent of the time, but.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I think I've been right. Yeah, one hundred percent of
the time.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Yeap, could be the time. Oh, yes, No, I wrote
it down wrong. Okay, I wrote I transcribed it and
I wrote it down wrong. And that was a And
there's so many different different prefixes and numbers and cell phones.
Now you have no idea?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
What about right nine seven nine. That's a bizarre one.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
No, no, it was the other that was the first
three digits after died seven nine back in the old days.
There's just one that's right. Yeah, by the way that
we'll tell you that story a little little. The old
guy here, if we can talk to our winner today,
which we.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Hi, is this Tamra, Yes, hey, Tamra This is Chelsea
and Scott will Yay, we are the info maniacs and
guess what, you're a winner this morning.
Speaker 10 (05:05):
Oh great, that's terrific.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, so, Tama, what are you up to this morning?
Speaker 10 (05:10):
I have already started work and just getting busy today.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Can I ask for you? Can I ask where you work?
Speaker 10 (05:17):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Can I ask where you work?
Speaker 10 (05:19):
Yes? I work for the Brian i C Education Foundations.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh excellent. Well listen.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
We don't want to take up too much time because
I know you're busy, but we did ask this morning
what is the least used room in your house?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What did you text in? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (05:34):
I said our sun rooms because it is way too
hot to ease it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I love the idea of a sunroom, though. Do you
get to use it a lot more once it cools off,
more so in the winter and whatnot? Oh?
Speaker 10 (05:47):
For sure, yeah we do so certain times of the
year we get to use it, but otherwise, my plants
and my dog love the room.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well listen, Tama, We've got tickets for you to Brass's
Valley Rodeo and the Texas Renaissance Festival. All you gotta
do is come up to the radio station to pick
those up whenever you get a chance. We're on the
top floor of the Guarantee Bank building.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Okay, wonderful, thank you, all right, thank you. Have a
great rest of your day.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
You too, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Bet.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I've always thought having a a sun room, some kind
of enclosed like patio situation.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh that just sounds awesome.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
Yep, yep, be able to enjoy the ad doors kind
of bringing.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Without having to be outside. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
So what tonight is the big graduation for Dottie?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Well, I you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So it is her last training class. Yes, and my
dad even asked that. He was like, oh, so does
she get a certificate? Yeah, I have no idea. I'm
not sure, to be honest, but it is her last
training class. We have had a wonderful experience. She has
learned so much. I have learned probably even more. And yeah,
it's just been it's been a lot of fun and
(06:55):
it's been a great like bonding opportunity for the.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Both of us.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
So how many classes was it?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It was so six total sessions, but the first one
was just for humans.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So this will be her fifth session tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And I mean truly we have learned everything that I
wanted to in terms of just sit different, you know
different really not really well a release word, yeah, different
commands cues, that's what that's the word that we like
to use.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And just you know, being.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Able to then use all of what I've learned if
I want to teach her even.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
More, I can. So you've got the tools now, the
too exactly.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
So was there anything about her personality that you wanted
to train?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
No, she's perfect, Scott, No, uh her.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And the thing is, I think our trainer has kind
of emphasized that you can't change their personality, like that's
their personality. It would be like some you know, someone
trying to train you to not ask questions.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And and she's also emphasized like there are some things
that are very breeds. Specifically I mentioned I said, you know,
one of the things when we walk, she's a good walker,
but if she sees a bird or something moving, I
mean she wants at it, like she takes off.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I said, is there.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Any way to kind of, you know, prevent her from
doing that? And she goes, Oh, the problem is she's
a terrier, Like she's got terrier in her that's just
terrier breed, like she's a hunter to some extent, she goes. Now,
there are things you can do to maybe distract her
or to try to get her to change directions and
things like that she goes, But there's there's some things
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with certain breeds that you're just not going to be
able to change. That's in their blood. And so it's
more so of how to work with what you have.
And then then obviously you know the different cues. And
she's been really good at everything that I have wanted
to teach her.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Yeah, that's so great.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
The last dog we had was she was scared. She
was just a frightened dog, which tells me because it's
a rescue that's just kind of.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And we have some of those in our class, like
we have some that, I mean one just last week
she was really really shut down at the beginning of class,
but eventually kind of started to get a little bit better.
And and you know they do things in class that
can kind of help that. But but yeah, that and
I will say I think I was more surprised at
Dottie and her ability to be in a classroom full
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of other humans and other dogs and stay so focused
on me well and the food, yeah, exactly, So.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Everything is going to beat related if you do behavioral
changes now means that.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, which luckily, I mean, she's so small, like that
bag of fish food that you gave me. Basically, I
don't like to bring that out in public because it
smells like fish food, but she loves it. And those
are really really small good treats. Will the ones you
gave me, same thing, Those are great and those are
going to last me a while, so it's not like
I'm going through well even hot dogs. Hot dogs are
(09:59):
not expensive, and that's you know, that's a lot of
what we use in class and things like that.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yep, like little bitty cuts to.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well exactly, and that's what you know, the trainer, the
very first class. I remember, she came over, she goes, oh,
we need to get your your little treats like cut
down even more, like she doesn't need it, She just
needs a little taste to keep going. And so keeping
I mean, will even the ones you gave me, they're small,
I still cut those up even oh yeah, because again,
you know, an hour worth of work.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Now I won't work.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
With her for an entire hour at home, but during
the class an entire hour of work.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I mean, she's getting fed a lot, so.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
She is the pleasure button that is responsible for the learning.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So you'll just need yeah, you just need the little taste,
but no, it'll she'll definitely be we'll definitely.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Stay treat motivated throughout our training.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Can tell us how much it costs.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yes, So it was two hundred dollars for the six sessions,
and that came with the clicker, which is you know
what we also use to train with horsemen, yep, yep,
clicker training, and the pouch I look like such a dowe.
It's like the fanny pack pouch that you put the
treats in and then that way they're like right there
on your hip. And then it also came with like
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a trainer's manual and then just some like other clicker
tips and things like that. So so yeah, two hundred dollars,
like I said, for the six sessions and then plus
the clicker in the pouch. So I thought it was
a great deal for everything that I got.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Again, if you got a young dog and you've you're
able to get the behavior that you want out of it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They do a puppy class and this is by the
I'll go ahead and plug them. Puppy Love Training is
the name of the company and they they work out
of America's Country Store.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Okay, so that's where we go, right on welburn yep.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And they also have agility courses and like agility classes,
so if you're interested in that. And then they do
have puppy specific classes for dogs that are are actual
like puppy in age. Ours is just like your basic obedience.
So they have a lot of different options.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
It's a lot of people buy they'll get a dog
and they don't really know how to train it, that's
for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I had no idea, I mean truly, like that's I
was like, I can't tell if she just doesn't know
how to sit or I'm not doing a good job,
you know. And and again I have learned just as much,
if not more than she had during this this whole
you know, experience, because again I had no idea, you know,
how to actually conduct the training. And sure you can
(12:22):
watch YouTube videos and things like that, but to actually
have somebody who's also she like my trainer sees Dottie
every week and so she's also interacting with her and
giving me tips specifically based on Dotty, because you know,
the way Dottie is learning is different than Max, the
doberman is different.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
There, they are good funs.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
He will too.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Yet one I'd say twenty one, and see if.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
We made a second day in a row. That one's gotcha.
I know it.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
I thought they were done.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I was editing.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I was editing yesterday and I was like, oh, yeah,
that's where that's where Scott got the wing.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
That's it, all right, there you go. So uh, speaking
of animals and stuff, it's baby time. Huh.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
It is baby time. In Ohio Zoo, they are asking
members of the public to help name a critically endangered
Eastern black rhino caf that was born very recently. There,
here's the unfortunate thing. They are not asking us to
come up with names. Oh they are. They are. You
can vote on their suggested names, which are McKenna, which
means happy one, Kenza, which means treasure, and Kamari, which
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translates to like the moon.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Oh okay, very sweet.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Names, but we all know that the general public can
do so so much better. Yes, so yeah, And it
is a cute little thing. It's wobbling around. There's no
video there. So the names that that others have come
up with other than those lovely things that mean moonshine
and whatever else. How about these Rhino Reynolds would be
(13:49):
about the grunty mchorn face.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
I like that.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Yeah, that harkens back to the boat Rhinanzi.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Said a Beyonce.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
Okay, stompy meczoomer, another throwback there. I love this one,
Elon Tusk all right, Rhino Grande. How about that one?
Ryan and Rinnie the Pooh. So that's that's what they've
got going on there and naming, uh, you know, toss
some good ones out. I'm sure listeners can come up
with a tone.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh yeah, I started following on Instagram. I started following
a baby pygmy hippo.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
His name is Mars.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
He lives in the oh the Tanga Nico Wildlife Park
in Kansas, of all places. Yeah, so he lives here
in the United States, and they have made him pretty
viral on Instagram because his he he will fall asleep
in his outdoor habitat. He's just taking a nap and
they need to move him back inside at like the
(14:51):
end of the day. And you know, just like anything
that's kind of dead weight and doesn't want to be
moved and like he's a baby, but he's still getting
pretty big, right, I mean he is a hippo, And
so they have all of these videos of his keepers
like trying to move him back into or he'll like.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Run into the pond and swim away.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And yes, it's really cute, but yeah, Mars Mission Control,
that's what they call page nice.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Well, while we're on the uh the whole animal kick right.
Volunteers at the Low's store in Richmond, Virginia, they had
a apparently a missing store They had a storecat okay, okay,
and the storecat goes missing. Well, storecats are good. I
mean they you know, they take care of them. Oh yeah, whatever,
it's always a good thing. This is His name is Franccene,
(15:41):
and Francine apparently ended up in the Low's distribution center
in North Carolina from Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
She boxed, well, yeah, cats, I mean they like boxes.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Wandered probably wandered into an empty box right exactly, and
then they shipped her. Yeah, went missing since September. They
found her though alive.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
They launched a where they launched a where's Francine campaign. Okay,
had an Instagram account going on, and after weeks of searching,
which included thermal drones, Francceine was found a few days ago. Okay, yeah,
so there.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
You go, the Mystery of Francene.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
I had a big homecoming celebration there in the low.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Store now back in Richmond, Virginia, where Francine belonged when
I was in.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
This is super random, but we were talking about store
cats I was in when I was in Michigan. We
were my mom and I were just like walking different
shops and stores and whatnot. And we walked into kind
of just like a little boutique, you know, they had
different like stationary. It just a little gift store kind
of and I'm looking at something and all of a sudden,
I see this movement out of the peripheral. It is
(16:47):
one of those like links cats, like the I mean,
it's a cat, but it looks like a lynx, like
it has the.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Pointy ears kind of.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And they're huge, like they're like one of the biggest
household cats you can have. And it was just laying
in the storefront window display and I was like, oh, okay, yeah,
you belong here. I just but it was just you know,
it wasn't like your typical little tabby cat like you
know on the shelf. It was like this monster cat
in the in the window display.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But I do love a good store animal.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Against I will go into a store specifically for an animal,
even if there's nothing in there that I'm interested in.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
WTAW news time is eight thirty two. It's seventy three degrees.
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'm Chelsea reeberb 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 engaged for the project
presented its plans to the council yesterday. Mayor Bobby Getirez
was already aware of the plans, as he and city
(17:53):
Manager Keen Registered traveled to places to check out the
components that will be used in Brian.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
She'll know Keen actually played on one of these things.
He didn't get hurt and break anything.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
All right, it's and if Keen can do it, if
it's Keen proof, it's kid proof.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's our kind of our litanus test.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
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. Speaking of Brian City
Manager Keen Register, he participated last night in his last
city council meeting before he retires after receiving a proclamation,
he thinks a lot of people, beginning with four mayors.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I was very fortunate to be able to serve under
the best mayors that this city has ever had, Mark Connolly,
Jason Biinski, Andrew Nelson and now Mayor Gatar's.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Register also served with twenty one council.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Members, absolute best city councils that anyone could 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, Scott's the limit.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Register officially retires November three, after fifteen years as manager
and two stints as interim manager. If you drive William
Joel Brian Parkway around Sue Haswell Park, Brian Belize Officer
Seth Waller says, new traffic signals are operating at WJB
and Culture.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
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'll be prepared to follow.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
The lag also activated our crosswalk signals on WJB at
Haswell Park where drivers will have to stop when those
lights turn.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Red for right now. 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.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
While it also tells pedestrians and bicyclists to pay attention
to the new signals. Brian Belie also has a heads
up for motorists at William Joel Bryan and Villa Maria
today old traffic signals are coming down and new signals
are being activated. That switch is expected to take most
of today to complete. A Madisonville man is out of
the Brass County jail after posting bond following his arrest
(20:04):
last Saturday night for causing a hit and run crash
in Brian while driving under the influence. The arrest report
says forty three year old Steve Avendano has two prior
DWY convictions in Brass County. No injuries were reported in
the collision at Villa Maria in Carter Creek. A witness
followed Avendano to a parking lot of a convenience store
along the freeway. He was also charged with resisting arrest,
(20:26):
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 Ovalet, who was accused of throwing the
explosive device at another man, is held for immigration authorities,
(20:48):
and thirty one year old Umberto Sanchez Junior was the
target of the Molotov cocktail. He's accused of firing his
gun out of volas. Sanchez is also charged with violating parole.
Court records show that he was sentenced to twelve years
in prison eight years ago for an armed robbery and
two burglaries of a habitation. BPD arrests reports do not
show anyone was injured in the disturbance at a trailer
(21:09):
park on Oldharn Road. The first message to the Texas
A and M community has been issued by the university's
new interim president.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
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 T 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
(21:38):
Welsh led with integrity, humility, and a steadfast commitment to
the university's mission. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to
five WTAW a.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
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 was on the search committee, Board of Regent's
chairman Bob all Britton of Fort Worth said last week
there is no deadline.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
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 2 (22:09):
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, A and m's athletics director, and one
department head. WTAW news time is eight thirty seven. It's
seventy three degrees. More news anytime at WTAW dot com.
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I'm Chelsea Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAWSA thirty eight. It's a
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sixty that'll be pretty nice. Visit the Mayor's on Wednesday,
and Bobby Gataris is here this morning from the city. Brian,
how are you today?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
How are you doing good? I understand that you have
a city manager who gets on slides and swings and
does dangerous stuff. Is that it? But he passes the
kid test.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
He did pass the gifts. It didn't break anything. Normally
he breaks all kinds of stuff when he gets on
anything at all.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
I've heard that story.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Anything that moves, he can break it.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Yep, okay, But anyhow y'all want it. You're getting a
new playground kind of give us the concept of what
the what kind of playground facilities you're gonna have.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
So this playground donated, you know, by the you know,
generous donation of dug and Care French Foundation. They have
gone above and beyond. We matched that for the city brime,
we matched that the taxpayers in the city all a council.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
It started out as something that was really really unbelievable.
We looked at it. You know, we had this other
company that came in. They won the bid. We looked
at the bid. It was not it didn't give us value.
We canceled it, or I should say when I was
in that meeting. I said, I canceled us. So I'm
not doing this because it doesn't bring any value. This
doesn't look good. Another company, Lone Star Recreation, came in
(23:57):
and they brought us something. We had a lotunch and
it was Austin Firtek and he comes against Bobby. I
just want to present something to if you would look
at it again. And I was really upset because ultimately,
not only are the French as paying for this thing,
but we're the citizens of Brian are paying for it
as well, and we want something of value there. We
wanted a destination part to go to Austin. We had
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lunch and he shows me all this stuff and we're
going through all this presentation and it was beautiful. I
mean it was like this was like three or four
times what the people were giving us before for the
five million dollars we're going to spend. And he goes,
you're going to love this when you get to the
back page. You're really going to love it. And we
get back to the back page and it was so
much better than we were looking at before. It was
(24:39):
like two point seven million dollars. And I said, well
that's great. I said, but we've allocated five million basically
for this thing. I said, give me the most you
can give me for the five million dollars. Take this
back and we'll get this thing through. What we are
getting with the citizens of Brian are getting and this
is a free playground is unbelievable. I mean, we have
shade structure, we've moved things around, We've done you know,
(25:00):
we've worked really hard to make it what we would
think would be the best place anybody would want to
go hang out. I don't want to go hang out there.
And we've taken a step further too, because as I'm
looking at that, we've visited other parks, We've visited across
the country. We've visited these different parks and stuff that
they've done in the past. This is really really nice.
But I've seen where you up to a park benches,
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you know, sponsored by Scott Delusion, another another thing sponsored
by WTAW. Another one's house Attires, another one's just in
Bobby Getari's whatever it is there everything you were there,
and these people hang out there all day long with
their kids, the strollers, the wives, you know, stay at
home moms, stay home dads, whatever it be. They have
their computers there, they're working from home with the kids
get to play and they could sit on these mountains
(25:44):
and watch across the whole thing. So phase two of
this park is going to be, you know, how much
we can raise to sponsor and get the name plates
put on these different things exactly the same, same exact concept.
But we're going to do that as well. So you know,
all the different businesses in town, all the different companies
in town, all the different people in the time, if
you want to have your name, you want to have
(26:04):
your mom's name, whatever in memory of.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Got a little revenue stream going there.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
And let's expand this thing to it something even bigger.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
And so where's the location. Where's it going to be.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It's right in between the MBG and Legends event Center
on the boardwalk. It's right in the middle of it.
So it'll be and there's a there's a pathway where
we're building the boardwalk right now, so that pathway goes
right across. We have the bathrooms going on over there there.
We have a separate company that's to do in the
bathrooms and these are you know, it's it's really neat
(26:33):
the way the bathroom set up We looked at one
in Phoenix, Arizona. That was where, you know, you're able
to see everything that's going on, and.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
It was air conditioned.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Well, we'll see, we'll see if it's gonna be air conditioned.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Breaking news, now, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Okay, all right, it was really really cool, but but
everything shaded out there. So you know, we you know,
we're Texas and it's hot. You don't want to sit
outside in the middle of the day off us and
it's hot and you're you know, miserable. So we've thought
of every o. I say, we thought it. We thought
of most most stuff. I'm sure there's things we had
not thought of. And after we're finished, people will tell
(27:05):
us what we didn't think of.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
All right, Well, now that that's nice, that's a neat thing.
While we're talking about midtown and developments down there, where
are we with a trolley from Brian to College Station
and back and forth.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, that's a great question. We're you know, we two
years ago, three years ago. Now, we we did the
whole trolley thing. We've talked about it. We went with
the Chamber of Commerce, and Chamber Commerce was going to
lead this because it's something that's very much needed from
Ego from downtown to midtown to you know what we're
calling North and North Gate or Uptown and then College
Station everything else just a major, major corridor. And then
(27:37):
you know Texas A and M needing all the stuff
to get facilities from the campus to downtown where they
have classes and stuff as well, and they have you
know people there. Calle Station signed off on a letter
of support for us, and you know, we got that
thing allocated. We're waiting on BTD Brass Transit District right
now to get these things done. And then all of
(27:58):
a sudden we find out that you know, I guess
basically Brian Woods has said, no, we're not going to
do anything. It's going to help the city of Brian.
We're just not gonna do we we'll do a trolley
between well.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
You mean he said that, but he wrote it someplace
or he was quoted at some place.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Or where can In one of the Briest transit meetings,
you know, there was this one of those things that
we're just there's a lot of you know, points of
contention on this saying this thing that would help downtown
from downtown to midtown, from midtown to Union Hill, from
Union Hill to Northgate, Northgate to ms C, MSc to
Century Square and then back around. So it's just it
(28:33):
just it helps both cities. But what I'm hearing now
from everybody else and from BTD and everybody that's, well,
they're not going to do something it's going to help Brian.
We're not going to participate. We don't care, and Brian,
we don't care because we're truly one community.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
And well, I hope so that doesn't sound good for.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
One is good for the other. And that's where we're
at today. So you know, it's just it's one of
the differences between our city managers kind of.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
There was a lot a discussion about data centers in
College Station that got voted down before it was ever
actually going to be a data center. Do we have
data centers happening in Brian? If we do, what would
that look like.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
We passed the data center about four years ago, this
conjunction with Texas A and M and Relis Campus out there
on the northwest corner of Brazes County. It's out in
the country, it's in Relis. We have one across the
street that you know, some owner annexation they asked for request.
Everybody I know they're up in arms about the six centers.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
They're noisy.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
It's a whole different kind of noise. So ours is
not a noisy one. Ours is going to be electrified
through BTU if we have the power. So we have
the three forty five line that's being proposed right now,
that could be here two years, three years, four years,
however long that takes to get here. What this rezoning
was was the ability for them across the street from
(29:52):
Realist to put a data center in if in fact
that's what they want to do. This is not the
saying there's going to be a data center, and a
data center would only come in if there's generation. So
the one they were proposing in Calle Station was going
to be gas turbines. Now turbines is just like what
you think of the jet engine, and they are very
noisy and you have to have quite a few of
them to make enough generation to produce for a data center.
(30:17):
Ours is going to be electric. It's just like plugging
anything you want to do. There's no nois there's no anything.
It's just a plug. And just as these mics are
plugged in right now, that's the same kind of noise.
There is no noise in what we're going to do.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
Okay, So and that's not just in college station. Data
centers are being built all over America, there's no doubt
about that. Well, then that also then brings to the
mind of is there an opportunity for something like a
data center to be built within the city limits of Brian.
Would Brian have any interest in that?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Well, there's a difference between data center and bitcoin mining, right,
so the water and everything else that people are talking
about for that, when you do bitcoin mining, it's a
generation heat cooling, everything else. We would never do a
bitcoin mind, We just wouldn't do it because at some
point they're gone and they're at and then you're just
stuck with a something. Data is something that we're going
(31:09):
to have for the rest of our lives and generation
to come. I mean, every time you pick up your phone,
it's connected to a data center somewhere in the world.
If you think that you know the AI generation that
we're doing right now, if you go to chat, GPT
or to whatever you're going to gem and I, there
is data center connected to that device that you have
in your hand and it's got to go somewhere. We're
(31:31):
going to have to have him. We have to have it.
So if we're going to stay in the forefront of
all technology and everything around the world, then we're going
to have to have this.
Speaker 8 (31:39):
As we continue on, Amazon and course have their drones
have left College Station and they're not going to do anything.
There is Amazon doing anything in Brian We.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Have the facility we announced, we haven't I mean I
missed it. I've been out of town.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Maybe I missed it.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I don't know. So we have a big facility over
in Texas Triangle Park just about completed now. They didn't
want us to tell a whole bunch about it until that.
We're going to do a big groundbreaking or ribbon cutting
or whatever it's going to be after the first of
the year. They want to be up and operational before
Christmas because they want to be using this thing. It's
called last Mile. We used to get next day service,
(32:17):
same day service from Amazon in our area is a
underserved area. So they have this last mile company that
comes in and builds those facilities that have to be
done right now. They're planned out for generations to go.
But the ones that are the last mile, they're the
fastest and they go up and these guys, I've never
(32:37):
seen a building go up as fast as I've seen
that one before. I go one week and they were
clearing the land. I go the next week. There's already
seamen on the ground that next week. They if you
go out there now, you're going to be amazed. We
just talked about it last month and it's it's a
huge facility. We even offered if you know, this is
the middle of the country, if you want to bring
(32:57):
drones back, you know this is this won't disrupt It's
not in the middle of a neighborhood. We're pretty thought
driven of the way we do things. We think about
things way out in the front of this is in
the industrial zone, and it would work out there.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
So we could get drone delivery back. It just might
be from a Brian based facility exactly.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
That's going to be up to them. That's not up
to us. You know, it's it is an option. It's
not going to be in the middle of a community
anything else. This morning, you know, we just yeah, Scott
was like we were talking about, we have so many
good things happening right now. The city Brian. I mean,
it's just it's it's a great time to be on council.
It's a great time to you know, to be serving.
I mean it's just everything seems to be hitting on
our watch.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Glad, glad, it's working for you, all right. That's Bobby
Terry's is Mary or Brian? Thanks the time, this morning,
good morning gets here it from any acts. It's about
seven or eight minutes till so AI. I mean we
can it doesn't matter what it is. You can do
a story about it, right, I can be good bad whatever. Sure,
this is rather interesting. Someone has used AI to create
(33:59):
a video and audio of a wrestling match. Okay, okay
between Bob Ross the painter right and mister Rogers.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
So we j here we got here. It is in
this place, King.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
That's mister Rogers walk into the ring and he's got
Marilyn been.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Rolling on his arm.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
I never thought i'd see this on Monday night.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Rock mister Rogers.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
It's a beautiful day to paint this canvas with your blood.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
Rogers swings speak they.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Ca there are just pulls it off. Syste the happy
little painter, just kit mister Rogers and he's the nineteen
ninety seven World Wrestling Federation heavyweight champion.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
I mean, I'm gonna give it a thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
There it is, yeah, video, I mean no, I didn't.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
Okay, well there there's video of it. Okay, so it's
it's rather fun.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I'll put that on my to do list. Okay, therest
of my busy work. Yeah, yeah, busy work.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Thirty paintings. Speaking of the aforementioned, Bob Ross will soon
be auctioned to supports small and rural public TV stations
they're facing budget cuts. Auction will take place in Los
Angeles November the eleventh. Subsequent events will happen in London,
New York, Boston, and online. All money raised will go
to the stations benefited from the uh connect distribute from
(35:19):
the content that is distributed by American public television. Bob
passed away in nineteen ninety five, so he hadn't been
painting lately. You know, it's been thirty years now.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Oh his painting. Yeah, okay, okay, I've heard painting auction.
I was sure.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Okay, Bob so famous of course for did you ever
watch his show?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I mean I've seen clips of it, but I never
watched Let's make some happy Little Tree.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, And you know, and I feel like i've seen it,
you know, as I've gotten older and people have like
resurfaced different clips and things like that. You know, I
wasn't watching it in its heyday.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Per se.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
You know, I've read someplace where he was actually he was.
He was raucous, he was emotional, and you're going, wait.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
A minute, really, okay, yeah, wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (35:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
And he would always created, you know, within thirty minutes,
because that was how long his show.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Oh sure.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
It's called The Joy of Painting. Two Ross paintings sold
earlier in August fetched one hundred and fourteen thousand, ninety
five thousand dollars. They're hoping that they can get about
a million and a half dollars out of the Bob
Ross painting.
Speaker 9 (36:13):
I have a friend who's a giant fanatic. I mean,
he's not a fan, he's a fanatic. Yeah, I don't
understand it, but he is.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
I've I've never seen a Bob Ross painting in person,
so I don't know exactly what that would necessarily be.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
But they're always like pretty landscapes. Since, right, that's pretty trees.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
Yeah, I think that's it. Yeah, right, exactly, So they
got that going on. So the the tonight on or no,
it's dropping today on Netflix. Is it cake? Have you
seen an Is it cake?
Speaker 5 (36:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
No, but I can imagine where you're going. They are,
they're prett yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
This one is a Halloween of the kind of is
it a cake? You see whatever? So it's on tonight.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
It's yeah, he's like realistic cakes that look obviously like
actual object of you know, paintings and beach balls and
hamburgers and you know whatever. So maybe this will be
pretty wilds and sure, yeah, Halloween version love that.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
So the weather is so nice here. I mean we've
been talking about how it's going to get down to
sixty but weird.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it has not been
so nice. It has been so hot. Yes, it has
been so hot, you think so, Yes, I went so
I took part in Taco Day yesterday. I went to
a local establishment that was having a taco deal and
I thought, you know what, Okay, they have plenty of
shade on their patio. I'm gonna sit out on the patio.
(37:37):
And I was out there for a while and they
had fans on. I mean they were doing everything they
could to kind of keep it comfortable.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
No, it is so hot outside and it's not pleasant. Yeah,
it really not.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Now in the mornings it's been you know, when I've
been leaving my apartment and I have to walk from
my front door to my car.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
Sure, nothing to complain about.
Speaker 10 (37:56):
There.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
The evenings you can kind of feel it start to
break a little bit.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
But midday all right, okay, so.
Speaker 8 (38:04):
I take it all right, So Thursday it'll be nice.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
How was the taco Oh it was delicious. Okay, yeah,
it was good. The margarita was better.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
You go girl, mar there were margarita specials too.
Speaker 9 (38:17):
I mean, you just have a taco special.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
So when my cleaning fairies are at my apartment, oh, yes,
I can't be there, and so I've I've got to
find time to kill There are only so many errands
you can run. I you know, I guess I could
go hang out at my you know, my parents' house.
I guess I could be like up here doing work,
but I don't want to margarita. Yeah, And so yesterday
(38:41):
I was like, I'm gonna go sit on the patio.
I did have my iPad. I was like answering some
emails and doing some things.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
But yeah and so and then you know, even.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
With a margarita, I was still just like sweating by
the end of my visit.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
This is enough, Okay, got it, so understood, So a
massive fat So we were talking about the weather. So
how about hurricanes we haven't had. I mean we are
now to October the eighth through what November, we've had one.
Speaker 9 (39:08):
Yeah, maybe one hurricane. Actually none that have hit the US.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Okay, sad.
Speaker 9 (39:13):
Yeah, there have been hurricanes, but they've all kind of
glanced off. This is the first season in ten years
that no hurricanes have made landfall through the end of September.
Although it has happened in multiple years in the past,
it's just been a long time. I think the latest
was twenty thirteen, but it has happened several times in
the past.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
But they are always saying global war to climate change.
Climate change is causing the storms to become more intense
than they've ever been. And that might be true, but
if they're not having it at all, the more intense
than that. So that's that's what always makes me wonder.
You know, nature's a system, it's a real jit system.
It's always changing it is, and it's going to do
(39:54):
something no matter what we do to it. You know
that they change the way that things happen. But I
find that really odd that.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
We have It has been a little bizarre three.
Speaker 9 (40:04):
Quarters of the way through the season, and it's less
likely in the third quarter or the fourth quarter of
the season for us to have storms, but they can't happen.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah, so I we'll keep it hone like you said,
we as in just like the United States and general like,
there hasn't been anything this day.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
In eighteen eighteen, two English boxers became the first to
use petted gloves. Of course they were English.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Course they were.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
They couldn't and now they can't even make a fist.
But now it makes me wonder because then they.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Were like, how much longer can we make this fight last?
It's probably smart for like the betterers and you know,
obviously the athletes and stuff, but to think about it
all the way back in eighteen eighteen.
Speaker 8 (40:44):
That's a good point, that be it.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, yeah, we can take a few more hits. We
can make this last longer.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
We can you know, the Bess can be going.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Yeah, that'll that'll be good. Warner Brothers is going to
celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of Harry Potter and The
Sorcerer's Stone with a worldwide theatrical re release.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Oh okay, do you have any interest in seeing those
again in theaters? I actually think it would be fun.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Yeah yeah, but you saw them all the originals all
in theaters, correct, right, correct.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
And it is one of those It is one of
those movies that it just hits different on a big screen.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
It has some scale, right yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Absolutely, absolutely, so yeah, I would definitely consider going back
to a theater and seeing it.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
Most successful, one of the most successful franchises in history
back in two thousand and one. Now get this, Matt
Damon okay, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, birthday. He will
portray Frank Stallone's senior father of Sylvester Stallone in an
Amazon MGM Studies Studios movie called I Play Rocky Huh.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
It's going to be directed by one of the Fairly Brothers. Okay,
And they got some guy who I've never heard of
who's going to play Sylvester Slow. It's the story of Sylvester.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
Stallone about that.
Speaker 8 (41:52):
They're going to make a movie about that. Okay, we'll shoot.
We're back to bar Broadbroadcasting Station WDGAW College Station.
Speaker 7 (41:58):
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