October 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Regional potato chips. Winner! City of Bryan update. Arkansas festivals. Domino’s refresh. Disney news. Apple talk. Butter sales are growing.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
WTAW news time is four minutes after eight seventy degrees.
News is presented by Pioneers steal In Pipe, your one
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Go to Pioneer Boys dot com. Good morning, I'm Chelsea
reberb Our story this week about the Brass County Commission
approving more authority to approve contracts without first going to
the elected body was not mandated by a new state law.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Here's what Commissioner Fred Brown said during the September thirtieth
meeting about the request that came from the director of
the county's purchasing office.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Now, there's nothing we can do about it. It gives
me pause the entire thing, just that it is state law.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now, looking further into the request, there are no new
state laws. One section of the Texas Government Code that
was enacted in nineteen eighty seven and another amended in
twenty eleven gives the Commission the option of giving the
Purchasing Office director authority to, among other things, approved contracts
of up to one hundred thousand dollars. Commissioners were assured
at the September thirtieth meeting that they will be informed
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of future decisions. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to
five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Brazzo's County District Court's administrative judge is retiring. Eighty fifth
District Court Judge Kyle Hawthorne, who is not running for
reelection next year, said he wants to quote sneak out
as quietly as possible.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
My wife and family and I made the decision a
little while back, and then I told my staff first,
and then I told the other judges, and then I
just kind of left it at that where it spread
as it normally would in courthouse gossip.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Hawthorne was first elected in twenty fourteen and was re
elected in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
If I recall correctly when I ran, I said, you know,
I think three terms is kind of a good quitting spot,
and so I think it's a good time to go
let some new eyes get on it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
The upcoming vacancy has drawn at least one announced candidate.
Assistant Brazz's County District Attorney Jennifer A. Bear leads the
juvenile in civil divisions. Next January is the goal to
implement a master plan for economic development efforts in college Station.
At the City Council's last meeting, a draft plan was
presented by an Austin based consulting company. Consultant, Jennifer Todd
(02:10):
Goyn said, One focus area is titled Industry.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
How can we really expand the thriving, diverse foundation that
you already have of talent, businesses and industry to create
that diversify tech space and enhance economic opportunity.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Another is titled Innovation.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Here we're looking at how can we create College Station
as a hub for technology driven entrepreneurship, research and development,
business formation and growth, and wrap around support.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Goin says the four focus areas are components of a
vision statement where College Station becomes a nation's most vibrant
university community, a place where businesses thrive, innovation is embraced,
and quality of life is unmatched, resulting in sustained prosperity
and economic competitiveness. The City of Brian currently has twenty
seven housing subdivisions in some form of development, amounting to
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more than one thousand lots.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
We had a lot of questions when people are moving
into town and you know where the new subdivision, how
many lots available? And that's probably the largest number I
think that I've ever seen of available louts.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That was part of City Manager Keen Register's last city
project update to council members before he retires next month. Well,
this week's Brian City Council meeting included no opposition to
the design of the future signature playground at Midtown Park.
The construction contract has yet to be awarded. That is
scheduled to take place during a special meeting next Tuesday.
That agenda item provides more information about the four point
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two million dollar project. Among the one hundred and twenty
five components are fifty eight elevated play areas and three
shaded pavilions with picnic tables. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez responded to
questions of why the playground does not include splash pads
or other water features.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
One of the reasons they didn't want the splash pad,
and they said, is because they didn't want their kids
going out there getting all wet and then they get dirty,
and then they got to put them in the car
and go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Will there remains two hundred and seventy two thousand dollars
in the project budget. City staff will propose fun sources
to add restrooms and electrical service at the playground. The
Brasses Valley Veterans Memorial will dedicate its nineteenth memorial site
next Monday morning. The Brian City Council's representative on the
Memorial Board, James Edge, previewed the dedication of a statue
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remembering the coase of a war.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
There's a life sized bronze statue created by j Payne
Laura and it depicts a female combat pilot.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Monday Mornings program starts at nine. The featured speaker is
a retired Air Force combat pilot, Wendy Woodard, who now
works as a Texas A and M professor mentoring members
of the Core of Cadets. WTAW news time is eight
minutes after eight. It's seventy degrees. News is presented by
Pioneers steal In Pipe. One more look at your local
news at about eight thirty, or you can always go
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online to WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen
twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
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All right. So our question is, and we're about to
pick a winner, that is your favorite potato chip.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, let us know, we will. We all still keep
the registration window open. We're giving away some tickets to
Texas Renaissance Festival and Brasses Valley Fair in Rodeo, So
Textas with your favorite potato chip and your first and
last name nine seventy nine, six ninety five, sixteen twenty.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
And the deal is, I mean, we have seen more
than we used to. We get to oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
What's interesting is that there are as of twenty twenty three,
three hundred and sixty six potato chip makers in the US.
Now we know the big guys like Lays and Pringles.
And you know, we do have some regionals here, but
we've got a list of the top regional in no
particular orders. Top regional potato chips out there. Starts with
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one from Louisiana.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm sure enough. That would be Zapp's potato chips,
the spicy Cajun Crotators.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh okay, I've actually never had that flavor, but I
love Zapps.
Speaker 11 (06:13):
Yeah, they are so so good, are they?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The Voodoo chipes, Yes, those are my favorite.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
From Arizona, Poor brothers. The Jalapino chip there from Goodyear
Pennsylvan or Goodyear Arizona. Tim's Cascade comes in at number three.
These are from Washington State. Extra thick and crunchy, original
with sea salt. I've heard of and I've never had
their uts chips.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yes, I've heard of. These two from.
Speaker 10 (06:40):
Pennsylvania that's up then northeast. They are crab chip potato chips,
so they got the Chesapeake Bay crab seasoning there.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
I probably would like that. And number five on the
list Rainbow old fashioned dark potato chips. These are from Michigan.
They are used to be Detroit was apparently the potato
chip cap the world at one point in time, and
this is the only surviving chip from Detroit. All right,
it's a dark color. It comes from a certain sugar
rich potato kind of the old school way.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, okay, from California, and the bag looks very California
Rusties chips Island style. So these are based in Huntington Beach.
Hand sliced chips are slow cooked. They give them a nutty,
slightly caramelized taste you won't get from just any bag
of chips. Stirsings haven't heard of these either. Iowa is
where these hail from. And there's three things you need
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to know. They have only one flavor and it's all
they need. They're as patriotic as a potato chip can get,
and they don't skip on salt. Grippos. These are from Ohio.
They are the pride of Cincinnati, and the barbecue flavor
is a standout. These I have heard of. They hail
from Tennessee. The dirty potato chips. Now, these are very
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you know, it says, despite the scandalous name, these chips
are squeaky clean ina in flavor. They are kettle cooked
crunchy and come in multiple flavors. And then finally the
from Virginia. Root eleven obviously has a Chesapeake crab flavored chip.
It's basically a requirement for any Virginia snack. But they
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also have something called Mama Zuma's Revenge. It is a
hob and arrow barbecue chip.
Speaker 11 (08:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
So again Route eleven from Virginia.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
All right, so this one is a pretty bag. It's
cape Cod chips.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Well, yeah, these are everywhere.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
Yeah, got the.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
Yeah they really.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
I love a kettle cooked chip.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Mister b This is the only potato chip and they
put it on the label. This is the only potato
chip that is made in West Virginia. Okay, yes, good
for them. Mike sells. This is a groovy potato chip.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Okay, like a wavy Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Based in Dayton. They've been around since nineteen ten. Wow,
which is that's not bad? Yeah, and Brother Caine potato chips.
They are from Georgia, old fashioned Georgia taste.
Speaker 11 (08:59):
So there you go.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Some regional potato chips, and some of those we can
get here.
Speaker 12 (09:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I haven't heard of it, Yeah, a lot of them,
but we have. I have seen a few. So that's cool.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
I don't know what this means. They put together a
list of the most and least relaxing TV show.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh okay, well yeah, but I get it. Like we
were just talking about the Bear the other day. Yeah,
that is the least relaxing TV show I've ever seen,
and I love it, but it causes you some high anxietyiots.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Yeah, I got that. Yeah that's cool. I don't know.
But anyway, so this is what they say. These are
the these are the ones that are most relaxed Blue Boe. Okay,
all right, so which makes sense? Okay, you want that?
I guess yeah for kids, right, Seinfeld? Okay, I never
thought of that as being relaxing. Mister Bean. Oh he's
a little unusual.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, I don't know if I've ever seen an episode
Pride and Prejudice.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
It was a nineteen ninety five BBC minise herees Oh okay.
The US version of the Office came in at number five.
The British version of the Office is not a relaxing show.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
It's gonna even the US one like it's.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's because it's so awkward. Yes it is, and it's funny,
so I mean.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Yeah, Friends came in number six.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Okay, I can kind of see that.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
I got that Faulty Towers that was a British TV
show in the seventies. Then yes, minister, this is a
British show from the nineteen eighties. And number ten Arrested
Development Development, which which I do like the worst shows
to watch. If you're and it says as you're dripping
drifting off to dreamland, maybe that you okay, okay, yeah, Hannibal,
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that would be It's okay. Sons of Anarchy can confirm Daredevil, Broadway, Boardwalk.
Empire has a great show, Peaky Blinders, Yeah, Dexter, the Boys,
oh oh yeah, mister Robot okay, never saw it, and
boy Black Mirror yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, okay, so this makes it so this should be
retitled as shows you could fall asleep and shows that
you should not watch before bed.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Yes, yeah, Black Mirror, that's a dark show. My gosh,
I watched about three episodes of that.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Woow, that's three more than I did. Nope, no things, yeah.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Very very psychological, that kind of stuff. Yeah, so that's fine. Anyway.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
In the meantime, Dolly Parton look is alive and well.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
So we can confirm.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, so apparently her and will I know you had
the story too, and I heard about it on a
pop culture podcast just yesterday.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Apparently her sister Frida I think is.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Her name, Okay, she posted on Facebook earlier this week
and it was very much like a request for prayers
for her sister, and it just came off as like, uh, oh,
something is seriously wrong.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Well, and immediately after, she canceled a series of shows,
right right, she.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Never does correct, Yeah, She's also had to cancel some shows,
and so there was just a lot of speculation, I
guess you could say.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
On what was going on with Dolly.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But she has posted a video on her instagramage basically
and the caption was I ain't dead yet. She is
in a studio. She is shooting commercials for the Grand
Ole Opry. And she did admit like she has been
going through some health issues her her late husband was
sick for a very long time after his passing, and
during that time she wasn't taking care of herself, she admits,
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And and finally it got to the point where, you know,
a doctor said, hey, we gotta take care of some
of this stuff. And she doesn't say exactly what that is,
but she says.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
You know, I'm not dying. I am. I am going
through some things, but I am alive. I am well.
You know, I'm sorry I had to cancel some shows.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But like we're all good, fam We're all good goodness.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
Sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW saving can talk
to our winner of the Texas Renaissance Festival tickets and
tickets to the residents, Family Fair and Rodeo. We talked
about your favorite potato chip. Shay, it's Scott and Chelsea
and will the infamanty accent. You're a winner today, yeah, curiously, yes, yes, yes, yes,
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we're gonna make your Thursday good. So our question was
favorite potato chip. So what's what's the answer in your house?
Speaker 12 (13:11):
Well, it's a corn chips. I didn't think I was
gonna win.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
Agree, completely agree.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Hey that's okay. You know it's funny.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I randomly select the winner, obviously, and I after I
picked you, Shay, I go, huh, that's not a potato chip.
But you know what, she still submitted an answer. She
provided her first in last name, and so I still
wanted to give you a chance to win a great
also because I love I love these chips that you
you submitted. So tell us more about the actual your
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favorite chip.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
Yeah, so it's the so chew so Chill blue corn
chip and they're amazing.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
They are.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
They're so good low.
Speaker 12 (13:54):
In salt too, and they're just really yummy.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
They're really thin and like crispy. Oh really, Yes, I
have tried there.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And you can find them there. Yeah, and so Chill
has like other regular but the blue corn ones are
are awesome.
Speaker 11 (14:08):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (14:08):
Okay my sister got me started on them, and so yeah,
I can't stop.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
There you go, So Shae, what do you do when
you're not eating corn chips?
Speaker 12 (14:18):
I work at Texas a and M with Agar Life Research.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Oh hey, there you go. All right, So we've got
Texas Renaissance Festival tickets and also tickets to the Bresses
Valley Fair and Rodeo. You just come by here at
the top of the Guaranty Bank building. We'll have it
for you.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Okay, thanks, bye, Okay, I know it's so funny. I
picked and I go, oh wait, that's not a potato chip.
But guess what but they are so yeah so Chill.
It's it's spelled with an X like the name. You'd
be like, wait, what is that X? X O T
C H I L I love spelling on the radio,
but it is pronounced so chill and it even says
it on the bag, so you know how to say it.
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But they have, you know, just different corn chips with
the blue corn chips. When I lived at the Boys,
we have them in the pantry all the time. They
were really really tasty. So but yes, thanks to everybody
who texted in lots of lots of good potato chips.
I'm amazed at how many of you just like plane
laze potato chips, Like I don't mind them, but when
you have the options that you have these days, I
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can't say that that would be my first pick.
Speaker 11 (15:16):
I've got to get a little flava in there.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Well, and I like a super crunchy potato chip, So
I'm that's like when we talked about the cape cod.
Any kind of kettle cooked chip, like that's my go to.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Yep, they do, and that's yeah, we're to the point
where there are so many flavor of course, Lays does
a thing now where they have people submit flavors and
they pick the top four and they have them out
for a limited time. Hey, yeah, we got crazy with
barbecue potato chips, because it became all sorts of different
kinds in that. But that's why, and I want to say.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Sour cream and onion. That's kind of an old school
that's flavor for a while.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
And they do ranch of course that that happens a
little bit more with corn chip probably than potato chips made.
The voodoo is tough to beat though, agreed, agreed, I
just love that stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
WTAW News time is eight thirty one. It's seventy one degrees.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Good morning. I'm Chelsea Rebb.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Their last business meeting, Braz's County commissioners voted to give
the purchasing office more authority over approving contracts, but that
was not required by a new state law.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Commissioner Fred Brown, who was part of the unanimous vote
giving the purchasing office authority to sign off on contracts
of up to one hundred thousand dollars, believe they were
mandated to give up control.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
When you talk about one hundred thousand dollars, that's a
lot of flexibility for staff that doesn't have to come
to us. This was caused by the legislature.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
A further check by WTAW News with county officials confirmed
there are no new state laws. The Commission's vote reflected
a request from the director of the county's Purchasing Office,
who signed two sections of the Texas Government Code. Both sections,
one which was amended in twenty eleven and another that
was enacted in nineteen eighty seven, gives the Commission the
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option of allowing the Director to authorize those con tracks,
among other things. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to
five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Next year's local elections will include choosing a new District
Court judge. Kyle Hawthorne is not running for a fourth
term as eighty fifth district Judge.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You got a deadline in November that you got to
say whether you are you aren't, and you know, probably
after the first of the year. I was looking at
the future, given my age and health and all of that,
and talking it over with the family, and I just
think it's time.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Awthorne says being judge has been the most enjoyable experience
in his nearly forty year legal career.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Obviously, though cliche is I was honored at the people
of Brass County allowed me to do it, and I'm
happy with my decision, happy that I got the opportunity
to do this.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
There is at least one person who has announced their
candidacy for the upcoming vacancy. Jennifer Abert leads the Brazos
County District Attorney's Office Civil and Juvenile Divisions. A woman
from Kerrville is in the Brazos County jail on charges
of breaking into seven work trucks that were parked in
Wickson Valley and attempting to steal up to twenty thousand
dollars in copper wiring. A Brazos County Sheriff's deputy wrote
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in his arrest report that multiple shoe prints next to
a stack of tools and spools of copper that were
removed from the trucks matched the shoes of the forty
two year old woman who denied burglarizing the vehicles. The
College Station City Council's last meeting included a presentation from
outside consultants based in Austin who were hired to create
a master plan for economic development.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
One thing the council heard was a vision statement.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
College Station will be the nation's most vibrant university community,
a place where businesses thrive, innovation is embraced, and quality
of life is unmatched, resulting in sustained prosperity and economic competitiveness.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Jennifer Todd Goyn said the vision statement will be accomplished
by achieving four focus areas.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
One is creating an identity and here.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
We're looking at how can we create those university and
community synergies to create dynamic districts and authentic places that
are good for residents, businesses, students and visitors, and not
every place has to serve every population.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Other focus areas are creating a diversified tax base, establishing
the city as an innovation hub, and positioning the city
as an economic leader. The consultant's goal is to finalize
then implement the master plan next January. The City of
Brian has provided more details about the playground that is
coming to Midtown Park. The information comes from the agenda
of a special meeting of the city Council next Tuesday,
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where official action will be taken on awarding the four
point two million dollar contract. This follows a presentation of
the park design at this week's council meeting that received
no council opposition. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez says splash pads or
other water features are not included because that would result
in children leaving and wearing wet clothes.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
And it makes perfect sense if you're traveling with the
big group and a bunch of kids, you don't want
to have to if you're out of town, change your
kids three or four times a day.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The playground calls for one hundred and twenty five different
play components, including fifty elevated play areas that are accessible
by ramp and seventeen that are accessed on the grid level.
The final time Brian City manager Keen Register shares a
city project update during a council meeting before his retirement.
He says he's impressed by the current construction of new
single family homes.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
There are currently twenty seven subdivisions or phases of subdivisions
under construction or had a recently accepted platfile within these subdivisions,
or one thousand and fifty six lots for single family
home developments in Bryan.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Register says the number of available residential lots is probably
the largest he's ever seen. WTNW news time is eight
thirty five. It's seventy one degrees. More news anytime at
WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen, twenty ninety
four to five WTAW.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
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temperature of ninety, low temperature of sixty two and we're
it's seventy right now. Lacey's here this morning from the
City of Brian. How are you today? Good morning, good,
thank you, excellent. What's going on in your world?
Speaker 12 (21:13):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (21:13):
I I I'm gonna with my City of Brian hat on.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:17):
Today I'm going to promote.
Speaker 14 (21:18):
Household hazardous waste, which is a fabulous saying that the
Twin Oaks Landfill does.
Speaker 15 (21:24):
It helps the cities.
Speaker 14 (21:25):
It's all Brassis Valley residents can go and dispose of
household hazardous waste. And they're electronics for free. It's literally
a dry thur event. It's from seven am to two
pm on Saturday, October eighteenth, So I'm giving you a
heads up this weekend clean out your garage. That's good Interurius,
but honestly, you know you can't these extra cleaners or
paints or oils. Do not dump them downstorm drains or
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your toilets or you know, your sink drains anything like that.
But also it helps save trash truck fires. These live
them I batteries are problems, So anything like that that
you really shouldn't be putting in your trash can take
them to the Twin Otes, Atlanta. It's free, it's fast
and easy rain or shine, and you enter go on
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Harvey Road past Veterans Parks if you're coming from Highway
six past Veterans Park and Athletic Complex, and you'll turn
right into there. You'll see all the light up signs
and literally you don't even have to get out of
your car.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
So it's really very well organized, very well organized.
Speaker 15 (22:23):
Yeah that's my city of brian Hat.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Okay, all right, now you're going to change.
Speaker 15 (22:26):
Yeah, now I'm going to change.
Speaker 14 (22:27):
I am representing the Brass Valley Veterans Memorials for this
morning as well as a reminder. Both the cities of
Brian and cald Station in Brass County graciously donate money
every year to make that park what it is. And
I say park, but it's our twelve acre memorial and
we have a statue that represents every like a location
and a memorial that represents every war that America has
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been in, but also Texas Independence. So again, if you
have not been out there, go to Veterans Park and
Athletic Complex. It's off Harvey Road and get there from
University drive Carvey Road. And on Monday, everyone is invited
if you can make it. I know it's stern work hours,
but at nine am we're dedicating a new statue that
was put in for Kosovo War, so we're dedicating our statue.
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It's going to be the first female military soldier representative.
She's a pilot out there, and we're gonna have the
guest speaker.
Speaker 15 (23:21):
We're going to welcome Colonel Wendy Woodard.
Speaker 14 (23:24):
She's retired from the US Air Force, so we're really
excited that you come to hear her speak. Our ceremonies
we keep them at one hour, ok, nine am Monday.
Speaker 15 (23:34):
But if you can't come to the ceremony, that's still understandable.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
I still encourage people to come visit and look at
the new statue. All the statues out there, we have
twenty two now. We're all created by j Payne Laura
at an Avisota.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
So that's really special.
Speaker 14 (23:49):
And I'm going to give an early plug for our
Veterans Day ceremony. We have an annual Vanders Veterans Day
ceremony every November eleventh at five point thirty pm. We're
going to be under the American Pavilion out at Veterans Heart.
We have one hundred and forty four names that are
added to the Wall of Honor.
Speaker 15 (24:03):
So I was really special.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
So that's the best thing about that ceremony. The heartfelt
thing is those that have added a name to the
Wall of Honor. So either if you've added yourself or
if a loved one added you or friends or family,
you get to stand up and say here we literally
do an honor wall roll call.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 15 (24:22):
A very special moment.
Speaker 14 (24:23):
But definitely come out to that if you can. That's
November eleven, that's a Tuesday, a five point thirty PM.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Okay, lots of stuff now, And if they want to
get someone's name on the wall, there's a deadline to
do that. And when is that usually.
Speaker 15 (24:36):
Yes, so every year we make it easy.
Speaker 14 (24:37):
Every year it's August fifteenth, So if you get it
in by August fifteenth, that gives enough time to get
it etched and engraved into the Wall of Honor. So
it's that red granite, big vocal piece in the middle
of the memorial.
Speaker 15 (24:50):
So August fifteenth is always our deadline.
Speaker 14 (24:52):
It's two fifty per name, and that covers the cost
of lifetime maintenance. So for example, last year we were
able to repaint the names that you couldn't just from weather,
sure from rain and wear and tear. So we make
sure that this is going to be something for future
generations to be able to come.
Speaker 15 (25:07):
And I also want to give a shout out.
Speaker 14 (25:08):
To like, if you're a teacher out there or you
know homeschool and you're looking for some.
Speaker 15 (25:13):
History or education.
Speaker 14 (25:15):
We have military panels that explain each war at each site,
and you can go along the Lend Stuart Pathway and
learn about that. We also there's the American Miles, so
if you look down, there's bricks of talking about you know,
things that have happened in American's history with years.
Speaker 15 (25:29):
So it's a real special place and honestly, you don't
know it's there.
Speaker 14 (25:32):
You maybe see a couple of statues when you're playing,
you know, doing things out at Vendors Park and Atlantic Complex,
but go through the trees or they're mixed in throughout
their trees and a lot of special attention and work
went to those areas, and you know, we plan to
keep enhancing it and we hope to spread the word
for forevery because people that have visited it have said,
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this is like what's at.
Speaker 15 (25:55):
The National like in washing d c. Sure Memorial for
all Veterans.
Speaker 11 (25:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
Absolutely, I'm a big fan of for Sure. Thanks for
the time this morning. Yeah, visit the folks to Citi
Brian on Thursday. It's in an accent. It's about fifteen
till did you did we get any potato chips that
you had not tried?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Ooh in the text and I have to go back.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
I just wondered if anything jumped out at you, it's
you know, I don't want to but.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I said, we saw some we saw some pickle and
that's definitely. You know, Miss Vicki's is a really popular
brand that a lot of sandwich stores. I feel like
Carrie Miss Vicky's, and they have a spicy deal pickle
that's really tasty.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Okay, yeah, man, I haven't. I have not done that yet,
not not wanting to. I guess i'd buy a small bag.
But man, it's interesting, all right, none less.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah, somebody did text it about funions.
Speaker 11 (26:41):
Oh yes, they have no onions in them.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
That's right. I just well see, and I hate to
think about the thing I like about funions is you
continue to taste.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
Them you forever.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Somebody else, you know, mentioned kettle cooked Wilipino. You know,
we did you know our winner had actually picked a
corn chip. There were a few of you who said,
I don't really like potato chips. I prefer like a
tostitos or a Doritos.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
It's not that I don't like a potato chip, it's
just that in my mind, the corn chip is far superior.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Oh gotcha?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Okay, yeah, that's it. So a Texas Runnis Sauce Festival,
of course, starts up this weekend. That's going to be
I just I have. I guess Monday or Tuesday. I
drove over to Magnolia and went by there. I haven't
been by there in decades. It looks a lot different,
it really really does. They got a nice big highway
that goes right in front of it and all that
kind of stuff. It used to be quite the hassle
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to get there. Two lanes of bumper to bumpered traffic. Yep,
it'll be that.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
It'll be that way.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
But anyway, that's our festival around here locally. There are
other festivals out there, other.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
Festivals out there as well. We learned about this one,
the Cabet Fest to Cabot, Arkansas, Okay, that begins today.
It is one of the small town festivals, one of
many that are up there in Arkansas. This one, however,
has a particular contest that well, it's one of the
long standing traditions. It's the cricket spitting contest. Oh yeah.
(28:05):
Each contestant must place a thawed, previously frozen brown house
cricket fully in their mouth, and once inside the contest circle,
they have to spit it as far as possible within
ten to twenty seconds. The winner is the one who
spits the cricket the furthest the distance measured from the
edge of the starting circle to where the cricket lands.
There's some contingencies though. Contestants must not step outside of
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the red circle while they're spitting, and the cricket must
remain intact for the spit to count officials. Officials may
inspect the cricket to ensure it has legs, wings, and antenna.
Just one of the many absolutely crazy festivals that I
came into encounter with when I spent my nine years
of exile in Arkansas. There is one of my favorites
(28:48):
just happened recently. It is the World Champion Squirrel Cookoff
in Bentonville, Arkansas, where the Bentonville, yes the Northeast Arkansas,
Northwest Arkansas. Rather, They've got a big squirrel cook off.
There are tons of teams and they're supposed to be really,
really good. One of the others that's a lot of
fun and a lot of people go to are the
Toadsuck Days. Okay, they have nothing to do with sucking
(29:11):
on toads Okay, okay. Toadsuck was actually kind of the
nickname of a bar on the Arkansas River where riverboat
captains used to stop and wait for the river to
come up so they could get past the sandbars, and
they would suck down a lot of beers and beverages there,
and so it became Toadsuck. The festival has since moved
a little bit further away to more major town, but
(29:34):
it's still there and they've got great concerts and they
do have a toad race there. There's also the Fok Mountain,
the Falk Monster Festival rather, which is a big foot festival.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
There.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
There's the Beanfest and Great Championship Outhouse Race of course
you would that goes with that particular one. And then
there's the Arkansas Goat Festival with a ton of goat
theme activities.
Speaker 11 (29:58):
They've got it all up there.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
It sounds like it, yeah, and they can keep it.
Speaker 9 (30:03):
It's a forty nine inful MANIAX on this Thursday morning. Okay,
is it time to rebrand another fast food place?
Speaker 11 (30:12):
It seems to be.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, So now Domino's getting on the uh the rebrand
refresh situation, which uh you know it works for some
right uh huh.
Speaker 11 (30:23):
I kind of like what they're doing here.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Yeah, no, I I do too.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And it looks like they've got is it Shaboozy that
they've partnered up. I mean, you know, he's having a
he's having a moment. So yeah, with younger consumers in mind,
the pizza chain is a new look and sound, including
an audio visual expression voiced by Shaboozy.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Okay, so it looks.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Like they're kind of cleaning up their look, like making
it very kind of like simplified. Like they've got the
the dominoes like, the dots like are nice, big and
bold on the boxes. This is the first brand refresh
in more than a decade for Domino's Pizza, modernizing the
look and sound of the chain with younger consumers in mind.
The brighter colors, boulder type faced and new jingle comes
(31:04):
as the chain, often described as a technology company that
happens to sell pizza, continues to broaden. It's hungry for
more strategy. Yeah so you know, and they said most
companies rebrand themselves when they're struggling, but after years of
category define growth, this refresh is about continuing to push
to be the best version of ourselves. Rather than launching
a more traditional tagline, We're baking craveability right into our
(31:28):
name and every aspect of our brand. As a reminder
of this relentless focus.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Are Yeah Get this? Walt Disney World logged its slowest
three week stretch of the year in September, putting it
on track to be the quietest month since twenty twenty one.
Crowd tracker they did data from mid August to mid
September show the average weights dropped down to just twenty
four minutes per ride, even shorter during the Fourth of
(31:54):
July holiday TikTok. One of the viewers there said place
looked like a ghost town. Financially, Disney paints a different picture.
The company has reportedly chain been mostly unchanged as far
as attendance is concerned. As far as they tell us,
while their recent earnings revenue has done very very well,
we'll look back at summer months, explains part of the trend.
(32:16):
August was the slowest full month of the year to date,
averaging twenty eight minutes. As far as a wait for
any of the riots to fill the traditionally empty weeks
after Labor Day, Disney has rolled out aggressive deals. They
did an eighty nine dollars per day three park ticket
that excluded the Magic Kingdom, fifty percent off children's tickets
(32:37):
as well and they also had some free dining that
would go along with some of the packages in the meantime.
So I don't know if they're doing well or not,
but they are raising their prices as well. They just
announced this yesterday.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
Disney Company is raising ticket prices at its two major
US theme parks whilet disney World in Orlando, Florida, and
Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Disney Folks news outlet Nikki visit
dot com reports the price hikes took effect Wednesday. Disney
Lands Tier six one day ticket, used on the busiest
highs demand days, is now two hundred and twenty four
dollars per adult, a hike of eighteen bucks. It's gone
(33:12):
up over one hundred and twenty six percent the past decade.
The popular five day park hopper pass rose thirty nine
bucks to six hundred and fifty five dollars. In Orlando,
Whalt Disney World raised its peak one day ticket price
by ten dollars, pushing it to two hundred and nine bucks.
And You'll passes rose between twenty and eighty dollars. Tom Ragotti,
Fox News. There's a lot of money you can spend.
(33:33):
Eight ton Ooh, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
But I know, so it's almost a rite of passage
kind of thing. I suppose, you know, I took the
kids there though.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
I guess that's the hard part, right.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You pay so much just to get in, yeah, and
then you still have to pay so much while you're there,
like you know, for when I go on on you know,
big trips or whatever. You know, there's ways I can
like kind of validate, like okay, like I had to
spend a lot of money on the the flight, but
maybe I have a free place to stay or you know,
(34:04):
I'm staying with family or you know, we got a
really good deal on this and this, and it's like Disney.
It just feels like it just like there's like punches
coming from left, right, up.
Speaker 10 (34:12):
Down, yeah, punches, kicks yeah yeah, everything.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
Else well, and then the whole airport experience at Orlando
is not with children, yes, yes, just not not any
fun at all. So I bought apples yesterday.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Oh yeah, what kind did you get?
Speaker 9 (34:26):
I don't know, I'll tell you the kind I got.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
You do this all the time.
Speaker 9 (34:29):
You just look at the price rights pound?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, okay, oh did you Oh oh uh, you'll have
to look at the name. Okay, I saw and it
was a name that I didn't recognize, Like it sounded
like a new apple.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So we talk about honey crisp all the time because
they're one of my favorite apples, But obviously they can
also be one of the more expensive apples. Although I
will say, right now is the season, like, this is
the season if you want to get honeycrisp apples. Yes,
like right now they are at the same price as
most of the other apples on the show, at least
from what I saw yesterday when I was at the
grocery store. Now, apples obviously have a rich diversity throughout
(35:06):
history and around the world. They say that the current
selection is thanks largely to the honey crisp apple. It
was actually saved from the rejection pile of the University
of Minnesota's apple breeding program in nineteen eighty two. Yep,
and so a young horticulturalist named David Bedford. He decided
(35:27):
that you didn't need to be rejected a beloved name.
Since the early two thousands, honey crisp and its snappy
crunch have been hugely influential on the abundance of varieties
that now Grace the produce selection, so they took a
look at some of the new ones that you may
see this coming fall, this coming apple season. This one
(35:47):
I have heard of, the snap dragon, Okay, all right.
It's a cross between a honey crisp and an unnamed
New York apple variety, the Kudos, which I think maybe
I did see this at the grocery store the other day.
It is another child of the honey crisp, this time
crossed with the bright and brown sugary zester, which makes
Kudos a sibling to the sweet tango apple.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
They're all like family.
Speaker 11 (36:11):
It'saz are y. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Now this one I've never seen. It's called the Lucy
and you'll know it when you cut it open because
it's got a striking reddish pink flesh, so it doesn't
have your typical.
Speaker 11 (36:22):
White flash looks so bizarre.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And it is a result yep, it's a result crossing
honey crisp in an airly red which is another red
fleshed apple. So I don't know if we'll see any
of those down here. Something called the ever Crisp, which
is a honey crisp and a Fuji cross.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
We know Fuji. This one.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I've definitely seen the Cosmic Crisp, which I think we
talked about recently on the show that it was coming out.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
So, yeah, those are some of your new apples.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
And we have the Honey Crisp to think because I
think probably it has really good breeding properties and cross
breeding properties.
Speaker 10 (36:56):
It does, and it's very prolific as well. It puts
out a lot of fruit.
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Then that's yeah, that's for the producers.
Speaker 11 (37:02):
That's certainly.
Speaker 9 (37:02):
What the what the what they about? Three minutes still,
it's the informatix. In Poland, officers were called to an
incident on a highway at one thirty in the morning
after reports of a female falling out of a vehicle,
and that's exactly what they found. The woman's injuries not
life threatening. She was trying to take a selfie while
(37:22):
she leaned out the window.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Of course, idiot, Yes they are.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
Now we were talking about apples. How much do you
spend on butter? Oh, I've got a butter thing. You
got a butter thing?
Speaker 6 (37:36):
What does that mean butter?
Speaker 10 (37:38):
Yeah, well we use a lot of butter. I found
Amish butter that comes in like a two pound block.
It is sean a giant butter, and it lasts us
and it's so good.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
Uh, and it is.
Speaker 10 (37:50):
It's the size of like a coffee can of small coffee.
I got it at the av grocery.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
To wow, Okay, I don't buy butter.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
You don't buy butter, you don't use butter.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
Nope, okay, I buy Okay, but I do. I do
buy ghee. Yeah, it just clarified butters, I guess.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, So that's that's the kind of butter I use,
and I probably, I mean, it's it's expensive. The jar
that I buy is probably almost twelve dollars a jar,
but it lasts me a while. I don't because I
just use it more than anything like in the pan
to like saw Day veggies or something like that. And
a lot of times I use olive oil. So it
just kind of depends.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
But premium butter sales are growing. Butter priced at twenty
five percent or more expensive than the average. That's a
little bit less than that. What is the Irish butter.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
O carry gold?
Speaker 9 (38:38):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Costco carries that and I saw it
the other day.
Speaker 11 (38:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (38:42):
We're still doing Land of Lakes. Okay, that's wrong with
the Land of Lakes yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Will say I saw an article the other day.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I almost put it in my show prep and it
was like Ina Garton's favorite butter, and it did it
talked about. It wasn't carry gold. It was something I'll
have to go back and look maybe cab it.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Okay, see see a b O T. I'm pretty sure
that is a brand of butter. And it was like
a specific like creamy whatever, you know. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
Butter has apparently remained a bit of a price exception
actually since the pandemic. Surgeon cooking went up, and that's
when people decided that they would go with a better
tasting butter, and so since then it's held on to
its price. Okay, we're back to borrow my music ran
out happens Brian Broadcasting Station wt A W
WTAW news time is four minutes after eight seventy degrees.
News is presented by Pioneers steal In Pipe, your one
stop steel supply store on Highway twenty one easton Bryan.
Go to Pioneer Boys dot com. Good morning, I'm Chelsea
reberb Our story this week about the Brass County Commission
approving more authority to approve contracts without first going to
the elected body was not mandated by a new state law.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Here's what Commissioner Fred Brown said during the September thirtieth
meeting about the request that came from the director of
the county's purchasing office.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Now, there's nothing we can do about it. It gives
me pause the entire thing, just that it is state law.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now, looking further into the request, there are no new
state laws. One section of the Texas Government Code that
was enacted in nineteen eighty seven and another amended in
twenty eleven gives the Commission the option of giving the
Purchasing Office director authority to, among other things, approved contracts
of up to one hundred thousand dollars. Commissioners were assured
at the September thirtieth meeting that they will be informed
(01:01):
of future decisions. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to
five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Brazzo's County District Court's administrative judge is retiring. Eighty fifth
District Court Judge Kyle Hawthorne, who is not running for
reelection next year, said he wants to quote sneak out
as quietly as possible.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
My wife and family and I made the decision a
little while back, and then I told my staff first,
and then I told the other judges, and then I
just kind of left it at that where it spread
as it normally would in courthouse gossip.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Hawthorne was first elected in twenty fourteen and was re
elected in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
If I recall correctly when I ran, I said, you know,
I think three terms is kind of a good quitting spot,
and so I think it's a good time to go
let some new eyes get on it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
The upcoming vacancy has drawn at least one announced candidate.
Assistant Brazz's County District Attorney Jennifer A. Bear leads the
juvenile in civil divisions. Next January is the goal to
implement a master plan for economic development efforts in college Station.
At the City Council's last meeting, a draft plan was
presented by an Austin based consulting company. Consultant, Jennifer Todd
(02:10):
Goyn said, One focus area is titled Industry.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
How can we really expand the thriving, diverse foundation that
you already have of talent, businesses and industry to create
that diversify tech space and enhance economic opportunity.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Another is titled Innovation.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Here we're looking at how can we create College Station
as a hub for technology driven entrepreneurship, research and development,
business formation and growth, and wrap around support.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Goin says the four focus areas are components of a
vision statement where College Station becomes a nation's most vibrant
university community, a place where businesses thrive, innovation is embraced,
and quality of life is unmatched, resulting in sustained prosperity
and economic competitiveness. The City of Brian currently has twenty
seven housing subdivisions in some form of development, amounting to
(02:55):
more than one thousand lots.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
We had a lot of questions when people are moving
into town and you know where the new subdivision, how
many lots available? And that's probably the largest number I
think that I've ever seen of available louts.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That was part of City Manager Keen Register's last city
project update to council members before he retires next month. Well,
this week's Brian City Council meeting included no opposition to
the design of the future signature playground at Midtown Park.
The construction contract has yet to be awarded. That is
scheduled to take place during a special meeting next Tuesday.
That agenda item provides more information about the four point
(03:30):
two million dollar project. Among the one hundred and twenty
five components are fifty eight elevated play areas and three
shaded pavilions with picnic tables. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez responded to
questions of why the playground does not include splash pads
or other water features.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
One of the reasons they didn't want the splash pad,
and they said, is because they didn't want their kids
going out there getting all wet and then they get dirty,
and then they got to put them in the car
and go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Will there remains two hundred and seventy two thousand dollars
in the project budget. City staff will propose fun sources
to add restrooms and electrical service at the playground. The
Brasses Valley Veterans Memorial will dedicate its nineteenth memorial site
next Monday morning. The Brian City Council's representative on the
Memorial Board, James Edge, previewed the dedication of a statue
(04:15):
remembering the coase of a war.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
There's a life sized bronze statue created by j Payne
Laura and it depicts a female combat pilot.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Monday Mornings program starts at nine. The featured speaker is
a retired Air Force combat pilot, Wendy Woodard, who now
works as a Texas A and M professor mentoring members
of the Core of Cadets. WTAW news time is eight
minutes after eight. It's seventy degrees. News is presented by
Pioneers steal In Pipe. One more look at your local
news at about eight thirty, or you can always go
(04:43):
online to WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen
twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
Good morning at Cianfo Maniac. It's eight eleven. Let's have
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Saturday ninety will be the high temperature and Saturday night
(05:10):
we'll be down to about sixty two. So we'll see
if that happens. That would be nice weather, that's for sure.
All right. So our question is, and we're about to
pick a winner, that is your favorite potato chip.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, let us know, we will. We all still keep
the registration window open. We're giving away some tickets to
Texas Renaissance Festival and Brasses Valley Fair in Rodeo, So
Textas with your favorite potato chip and your first and
last name nine seventy nine, six ninety five, sixteen twenty.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
And the deal is, I mean, we have seen more
than we used to. We get to oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
What's interesting is that there are as of twenty twenty three,
three hundred and sixty six potato chip makers in the US.
Now we know the big guys like Lays and Pringles.
And you know, we do have some regionals here, but
we've got a list of the top regional in no
particular orders. Top regional potato chips out there. Starts with
(06:03):
one from Louisiana.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm sure enough. That would be Zapp's potato chips,
the spicy Cajun Crotators.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh okay, I've actually never had that flavor, but I
love Zapps.
Speaker 11 (06:13):
Yeah, they are so so good, are they?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The Voodoo chipes, Yes, those are my favorite.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
From Arizona, Poor brothers. The Jalapino chip there from Goodyear
Pennsylvan or Goodyear Arizona. Tim's Cascade comes in at number three.
These are from Washington State. Extra thick and crunchy, original
with sea salt. I've heard of and I've never had
their uts chips.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yes, I've heard of. These two from.
Speaker 10 (06:40):
Pennsylvania that's up then northeast. They are crab chip potato chips,
so they got the Chesapeake Bay crab seasoning there.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
I probably would like that. And number five on the
list Rainbow old fashioned dark potato chips. These are from Michigan.
They are used to be Detroit was apparently the potato
chip cap the world at one point in time, and
this is the only surviving chip from Detroit. All right,
it's a dark color. It comes from a certain sugar
rich potato kind of the old school way.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, okay, from California, and the bag looks very California
Rusties chips Island style. So these are based in Huntington Beach.
Hand sliced chips are slow cooked. They give them a nutty,
slightly caramelized taste you won't get from just any bag
of chips. Stirsings haven't heard of these either. Iowa is
where these hail from. And there's three things you need
(07:33):
to know. They have only one flavor and it's all
they need. They're as patriotic as a potato chip can get,
and they don't skip on salt. Grippos. These are from Ohio.
They are the pride of Cincinnati, and the barbecue flavor
is a standout. These I have heard of. They hail
from Tennessee. The dirty potato chips. Now, these are very
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you know, it says, despite the scandalous name, these chips
are squeaky clean ina in flavor. They are kettle cooked
crunchy and come in multiple flavors. And then finally the
from Virginia. Root eleven obviously has a Chesapeake crab flavored chip.
It's basically a requirement for any Virginia snack. But they
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also have something called Mama Zuma's Revenge. It is a
hob and arrow barbecue chip.
Speaker 11 (08:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
So again Route eleven from Virginia.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
All right, so this one is a pretty bag. It's
cape Cod chips.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Well, yeah, these are everywhere.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
Yeah, got the.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
Yeah they really.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
I love a kettle cooked chip.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Mister b This is the only potato chip and they
put it on the label. This is the only potato
chip that is made in West Virginia. Okay, yes, good
for them. Mike sells. This is a groovy potato chip.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Okay, like a wavy Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Based in Dayton. They've been around since nineteen ten. Wow,
which is that's not bad? Yeah, and Brother Caine potato chips.
They are from Georgia, old fashioned Georgia taste.
Speaker 11 (08:59):
So there you go.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Some regional potato chips, and some of those we can
get here.
Speaker 12 (09:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I haven't heard of it, Yeah, a lot of them,
but we have. I have seen a few. So that's cool.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
I don't know what this means. They put together a
list of the most and least relaxing TV show.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh okay, well yeah, but I get it. Like we
were just talking about the Bear the other day. Yeah,
that is the least relaxing TV show I've ever seen,
and I love it, but it causes you some high anxietyiots.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Yeah, I got that. Yeah that's cool. I don't know.
But anyway, so this is what they say. These are
the these are the ones that are most relaxed Blue Boe. Okay,
all right, so which makes sense? Okay, you want that?
I guess yeah for kids, right, Seinfeld? Okay, I never
thought of that as being relaxing. Mister Bean. Oh he's
a little unusual.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, I don't know if I've ever seen an episode
Pride and Prejudice.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
It was a nineteen ninety five BBC minise herees Oh okay.
The US version of the Office came in at number five.
The British version of the Office is not a relaxing show.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
It's gonna even the US one like it's.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's because it's so awkward. Yes it is, and it's funny,
so I mean.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Yeah, Friends came in number six.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Okay, I can kind of see that.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
I got that Faulty Towers that was a British TV
show in the seventies. Then yes, minister, this is a
British show from the nineteen eighties. And number ten Arrested
Development Development, which which I do like the worst shows
to watch. If you're and it says as you're dripping
drifting off to dreamland, maybe that you okay, okay, yeah, Hannibal,
(10:32):
that would be It's okay. Sons of Anarchy can confirm Daredevil, Broadway, Boardwalk.
Empire has a great show, Peaky Blinders, Yeah, Dexter, the Boys,
oh oh yeah, mister Robot okay, never saw it, and
boy Black Mirror yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, okay, so this makes it so this should be
retitled as shows you could fall asleep and shows that
you should not watch before bed.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Yes, yeah, Black Mirror, that's a dark show. My gosh,
I watched about three episodes of that.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Woow, that's three more than I did. Nope, no things, yeah.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Very very psychological, that kind of stuff. Yeah, so that's fine. Anyway.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
In the meantime, Dolly Parton look is alive and well.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
So we can confirm.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, so apparently her and will I know you had
the story too, and I heard about it on a
pop culture podcast just yesterday.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Apparently her sister Frida I think is.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Her name, Okay, she posted on Facebook earlier this week
and it was very much like a request for prayers
for her sister, and it just came off as like, uh, oh,
something is seriously wrong.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Well, and immediately after, she canceled a series of shows,
right right, she.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Never does correct, Yeah, She's also had to cancel some shows,
and so there was just a lot of speculation, I
guess you could say.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
On what was going on with Dolly.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But she has posted a video on her instagramage basically
and the caption was I ain't dead yet. She is
in a studio. She is shooting commercials for the Grand
Ole Opry. And she did admit like she has been
going through some health issues her her late husband was
sick for a very long time after his passing, and
during that time she wasn't taking care of herself, she admits,
(12:19):
And and finally it got to the point where, you know,
a doctor said, hey, we gotta take care of some
of this stuff. And she doesn't say exactly what that is,
but she says.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
You know, I'm not dying. I am. I am going
through some things, but I am alive. I am well.
You know, I'm sorry I had to cancel some shows.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But like we're all good, fam We're all good goodness.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
Sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW saving can talk
to our winner of the Texas Renaissance Festival tickets and
tickets to the residents, Family Fair and Rodeo. We talked
about your favorite potato chip. Shay, it's Scott and Chelsea
and will the infamanty accent. You're a winner today, yeah, curiously, yes, yes, yes, yes,
(13:03):
we're gonna make your Thursday good. So our question was
favorite potato chip. So what's what's the answer in your house?
Speaker 12 (13:11):
Well, it's a corn chips. I didn't think I was
gonna win.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
Agree, completely agree.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Hey that's okay. You know it's funny.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I randomly select the winner, obviously, and I after I
picked you, Shay, I go, huh, that's not a potato chip.
But you know what, she still submitted an answer. She
provided her first in last name, and so I still
wanted to give you a chance to win a great
also because I love I love these chips that you
you submitted. So tell us more about the actual your
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favorite chip.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
Yeah, so it's the so chew so Chill blue corn
chip and they're amazing.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
They are.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
They're so good low.
Speaker 12 (13:54):
In salt too, and they're just really yummy.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
They're really thin and like crispy. Oh really, Yes, I
have tried there.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And you can find them there. Yeah, and so Chill
has like other regular but the blue corn ones are
are awesome.
Speaker 11 (14:08):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (14:08):
Okay my sister got me started on them, and so yeah,
I can't stop.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
There you go, So Shae, what do you do when
you're not eating corn chips?
Speaker 12 (14:18):
I work at Texas a and M with Agar Life Research.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Oh hey, there you go. All right, So we've got
Texas Renaissance Festival tickets and also tickets to the Bresses
Valley Fair and Rodeo. You just come by here at
the top of the Guaranty Bank building. We'll have it
for you.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Okay, thanks, bye, Okay, I know it's so funny. I
picked and I go, oh wait, that's not a potato chip.
But guess what but they are so yeah so Chill.
It's it's spelled with an X like the name. You'd
be like, wait, what is that X? X O T
C H I L I love spelling on the radio,
but it is pronounced so chill and it even says
it on the bag, so you know how to say it.
(14:54):
But they have, you know, just different corn chips with
the blue corn chips. When I lived at the Boys,
we have them in the pantry all the time. They
were really really tasty. So but yes, thanks to everybody
who texted in lots of lots of good potato chips.
I'm amazed at how many of you just like plane
laze potato chips, Like I don't mind them, but when
you have the options that you have these days, I
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can't say that that would be my first pick.
Speaker 11 (15:16):
I've got to get a little flava in there.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Well, and I like a super crunchy potato chip, So
I'm that's like when we talked about the cape cod.
Any kind of kettle cooked chip, like that's my go to.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Yep, they do, and that's yeah, we're to the point
where there are so many flavor of course, Lays does
a thing now where they have people submit flavors and
they pick the top four and they have them out
for a limited time. Hey, yeah, we got crazy with
barbecue potato chips, because it became all sorts of different
kinds in that. But that's why, and I want to say.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Sour cream and onion. That's kind of an old school
that's flavor for a while.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
And they do ranch of course that that happens a
little bit more with corn chip probably than potato chips made.
The voodoo is tough to beat though, agreed, agreed, I
just love that stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
WTAW News time is eight thirty one. It's seventy one degrees.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Good morning. I'm Chelsea Rebb.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Their last business meeting, Braz's County commissioners voted to give
the purchasing office more authority over approving contracts, but that
was not required by a new state law.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Commissioner Fred Brown, who was part of the unanimous vote
giving the purchasing office authority to sign off on contracts
of up to one hundred thousand dollars, believe they were
mandated to give up control.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
When you talk about one hundred thousand dollars, that's a
lot of flexibility for staff that doesn't have to come
to us. This was caused by the legislature.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
A further check by WTAW News with county officials confirmed
there are no new state laws. The Commission's vote reflected
a request from the director of the county's Purchasing Office,
who signed two sections of the Texas Government Code. Both sections,
one which was amended in twenty eleven and another that
was enacted in nineteen eighty seven, gives the Commission the
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option of allowing the Director to authorize those con tracks,
among other things. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to
five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Next year's local elections will include choosing a new District
Court judge. Kyle Hawthorne is not running for a fourth
term as eighty fifth district Judge.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You got a deadline in November that you got to
say whether you are you aren't, and you know, probably
after the first of the year. I was looking at
the future, given my age and health and all of that,
and talking it over with the family, and I just
think it's time.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Awthorne says being judge has been the most enjoyable experience
in his nearly forty year legal career.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Obviously, though cliche is I was honored at the people
of Brass County allowed me to do it, and I'm
happy with my decision, happy that I got the opportunity
to do this.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
There is at least one person who has announced their
candidacy for the upcoming vacancy. Jennifer Abert leads the Brazos
County District Attorney's Office Civil and Juvenile Divisions. A woman
from Kerrville is in the Brazos County jail on charges
of breaking into seven work trucks that were parked in
Wickson Valley and attempting to steal up to twenty thousand
dollars in copper wiring. A Brazos County Sheriff's deputy wrote
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in his arrest report that multiple shoe prints next to
a stack of tools and spools of copper that were
removed from the trucks matched the shoes of the forty
two year old woman who denied burglarizing the vehicles. The
College Station City Council's last meeting included a presentation from
outside consultants based in Austin who were hired to create
a master plan for economic development.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
One thing the council heard was a vision statement.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
College Station will be the nation's most vibrant university community,
a place where businesses thrive, innovation is embraced, and quality
of life is unmatched, resulting in sustained prosperity and economic competitiveness.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Jennifer Todd Goyn said the vision statement will be accomplished
by achieving four focus areas.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
One is creating an identity and here.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
We're looking at how can we create those university and
community synergies to create dynamic districts and authentic places that
are good for residents, businesses, students and visitors, and not
every place has to serve every population.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Other focus areas are creating a diversified tax base, establishing
the city as an innovation hub, and positioning the city
as an economic leader. The consultant's goal is to finalize
then implement the master plan next January. The City of
Brian has provided more details about the playground that is
coming to Midtown Park. The information comes from the agenda
of a special meeting of the city Council next Tuesday,
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where official action will be taken on awarding the four
point two million dollar contract. This follows a presentation of
the park design at this week's council meeting that received
no council opposition. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez says splash pads or
other water features are not included because that would result
in children leaving and wearing wet clothes.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
And it makes perfect sense if you're traveling with the
big group and a bunch of kids, you don't want
to have to if you're out of town, change your
kids three or four times a day.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The playground calls for one hundred and twenty five different
play components, including fifty elevated play areas that are accessible
by ramp and seventeen that are accessed on the grid level.
The final time Brian City manager Keen Register shares a
city project update during a council meeting before his retirement.
He says he's impressed by the current construction of new
single family homes.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
There are currently twenty seven subdivisions or phases of subdivisions
under construction or had a recently accepted platfile within these subdivisions,
or one thousand and fifty six lots for single family
home developments in Bryan.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Register says the number of available residential lots is probably
the largest he's ever seen. WTNW news time is eight
thirty five. It's seventy one degrees. More news anytime at
WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen, twenty ninety
four to five WTAW.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
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temperature of ninety, low temperature of sixty two and we're
it's seventy right now. Lacey's here this morning from the
City of Brian. How are you today? Good morning, good,
thank you, excellent. What's going on in your world?
Speaker 12 (21:13):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (21:13):
I I I'm gonna with my City of Brian hat on.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:17):
Today I'm going to promote.
Speaker 14 (21:18):
Household hazardous waste, which is a fabulous saying that the
Twin Oaks Landfill does.
Speaker 15 (21:24):
It helps the cities.
Speaker 14 (21:25):
It's all Brassis Valley residents can go and dispose of
household hazardous waste. And they're electronics for free. It's literally
a dry thur event. It's from seven am to two
pm on Saturday, October eighteenth, So I'm giving you a
heads up this weekend clean out your garage. That's good Interurius,
but honestly, you know you can't these extra cleaners or
paints or oils. Do not dump them downstorm drains or
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your toilets or you know, your sink drains anything like that.
But also it helps save trash truck fires. These live
them I batteries are problems, So anything like that that
you really shouldn't be putting in your trash can take
them to the Twin Otes, Atlanta. It's free, it's fast
and easy rain or shine, and you enter go on
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Harvey Road past Veterans Parks if you're coming from Highway
six past Veterans Park and Athletic Complex, and you'll turn
right into there. You'll see all the light up signs
and literally you don't even have to get out of
your car.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
So it's really very well organized, very well organized.
Speaker 15 (22:23):
Yeah that's my city of brian Hat.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Okay, all right, now you're going to change.
Speaker 15 (22:26):
Yeah, now I'm going to change.
Speaker 14 (22:27):
I am representing the Brass Valley Veterans Memorials for this
morning as well as a reminder. Both the cities of
Brian and cald Station in Brass County graciously donate money
every year to make that park what it is. And
I say park, but it's our twelve acre memorial and
we have a statue that represents every like a location
and a memorial that represents every war that America has
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been in, but also Texas Independence. So again, if you
have not been out there, go to Veterans Park and
Athletic Complex. It's off Harvey Road and get there from
University drive Carvey Road. And on Monday, everyone is invited
if you can make it. I know it's stern work hours,
but at nine am we're dedicating a new statue that
was put in for Kosovo War, so we're dedicating our statue.
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It's going to be the first female military soldier representative.
She's a pilot out there, and we're gonna have the
guest speaker.
Speaker 15 (23:21):
We're going to welcome Colonel Wendy Woodard.
Speaker 14 (23:24):
She's retired from the US Air Force, so we're really
excited that you come to hear her speak. Our ceremonies
we keep them at one hour, ok, nine am Monday.
Speaker 15 (23:34):
But if you can't come to the ceremony, that's still understandable.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
I still encourage people to come visit and look at
the new statue. All the statues out there, we have
twenty two now. We're all created by j Payne Laura
at an Avisota.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
So that's really special.
Speaker 14 (23:49):
And I'm going to give an early plug for our
Veterans Day ceremony. We have an annual Vanders Veterans Day
ceremony every November eleventh at five point thirty pm. We're
going to be under the American Pavilion out at Veterans Heart.
We have one hundred and forty four names that are
added to the Wall of Honor.
Speaker 15 (24:03):
So I was really special.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
So that's the best thing about that ceremony. The heartfelt
thing is those that have added a name to the
Wall of Honor. So either if you've added yourself or
if a loved one added you or friends or family,
you get to stand up and say here we literally
do an honor wall roll call.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 15 (24:22):
A very special moment.
Speaker 14 (24:23):
But definitely come out to that if you can. That's
November eleven, that's a Tuesday, a five point thirty PM.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Okay, lots of stuff now, And if they want to
get someone's name on the wall, there's a deadline to
do that. And when is that usually.
Speaker 15 (24:36):
Yes, so every year we make it easy.
Speaker 14 (24:37):
Every year it's August fifteenth, So if you get it
in by August fifteenth, that gives enough time to get
it etched and engraved into the Wall of Honor. So
it's that red granite, big vocal piece in the middle
of the memorial.
Speaker 15 (24:50):
So August fifteenth is always our deadline.
Speaker 14 (24:52):
It's two fifty per name, and that covers the cost
of lifetime maintenance. So for example, last year we were
able to repaint the names that you couldn't just from weather,
sure from rain and wear and tear. So we make
sure that this is going to be something for future
generations to be able to come.
Speaker 15 (25:07):
And I also want to give a shout out.
Speaker 14 (25:08):
To like, if you're a teacher out there or you
know homeschool and you're looking for some.
Speaker 15 (25:13):
History or education.
Speaker 14 (25:15):
We have military panels that explain each war at each site,
and you can go along the Lend Stuart Pathway and
learn about that. We also there's the American Miles, so
if you look down, there's bricks of talking about you know,
things that have happened in American's history with years.
Speaker 15 (25:29):
So it's a real special place and honestly, you don't
know it's there.
Speaker 14 (25:32):
You maybe see a couple of statues when you're playing,
you know, doing things out at Vendors Park and Atlantic Complex,
but go through the trees or they're mixed in throughout
their trees and a lot of special attention and work
went to those areas, and you know, we plan to
keep enhancing it and we hope to spread the word
for forevery because people that have visited it have said,
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this is like what's at.
Speaker 15 (25:55):
The National like in washing d c. Sure Memorial for
all Veterans.
Speaker 11 (25:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
Absolutely, I'm a big fan of for Sure. Thanks for
the time this morning. Yeah, visit the folks to Citi
Brian on Thursday. It's in an accent. It's about fifteen
till did you did we get any potato chips that
you had not tried?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Ooh in the text and I have to go back.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
I just wondered if anything jumped out at you, it's
you know, I don't want to but.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I said, we saw some we saw some pickle and
that's definitely. You know, Miss Vicki's is a really popular
brand that a lot of sandwich stores. I feel like
Carrie Miss Vicky's, and they have a spicy deal pickle
that's really tasty.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Okay, yeah, man, I haven't. I have not done that yet,
not not wanting to. I guess i'd buy a small bag.
But man, it's interesting, all right, none less.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah, somebody did text it about funions.
Speaker 11 (26:41):
Oh yes, they have no onions in them.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
That's right. I just well see, and I hate to
think about the thing I like about funions is you
continue to taste.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
Them you forever.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Somebody else, you know, mentioned kettle cooked Wilipino. You know,
we did you know our winner had actually picked a
corn chip. There were a few of you who said,
I don't really like potato chips. I prefer like a
tostitos or a Doritos.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
It's not that I don't like a potato chip, it's
just that in my mind, the corn chip is far superior.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Oh gotcha?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Okay, yeah, that's it. So a Texas Runnis Sauce Festival,
of course, starts up this weekend. That's going to be
I just I have. I guess Monday or Tuesday. I
drove over to Magnolia and went by there. I haven't
been by there in decades. It looks a lot different,
it really really does. They got a nice big highway
that goes right in front of it and all that
kind of stuff. It used to be quite the hassle
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to get there. Two lanes of bumper to bumpered traffic. Yep,
it'll be that.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
It'll be that way.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
But anyway, that's our festival around here locally. There are
other festivals out there, other.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
Festivals out there as well. We learned about this one,
the Cabet Fest to Cabot, Arkansas, Okay, that begins today.
It is one of the small town festivals, one of
many that are up there in Arkansas. This one, however,
has a particular contest that well, it's one of the
long standing traditions. It's the cricket spitting contest. Oh yeah.
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Each contestant must place a thawed, previously frozen brown house
cricket fully in their mouth, and once inside the contest circle,
they have to spit it as far as possible within
ten to twenty seconds. The winner is the one who
spits the cricket the furthest the distance measured from the
edge of the starting circle to where the cricket lands.
There's some contingencies though. Contestants must not step outside of
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the red circle while they're spitting, and the cricket must
remain intact for the spit to count officials. Officials may
inspect the cricket to ensure it has legs, wings, and antenna.
Just one of the many absolutely crazy festivals that I
came into encounter with when I spent my nine years
of exile in Arkansas. There is one of my favorites
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just happened recently. It is the World Champion Squirrel Cookoff
in Bentonville, Arkansas, where the Bentonville, yes the Northeast Arkansas,
Northwest Arkansas. Rather, They've got a big squirrel cook off.
There are tons of teams and they're supposed to be really,
really good. One of the others that's a lot of
fun and a lot of people go to are the
Toadsuck Days. Okay, they have nothing to do with sucking
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on toads Okay, okay. Toadsuck was actually kind of the
nickname of a bar on the Arkansas River where riverboat
captains used to stop and wait for the river to
come up so they could get past the sandbars, and
they would suck down a lot of beers and beverages there,
and so it became Toadsuck. The festival has since moved
a little bit further away to more major town, but
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it's still there and they've got great concerts and they
do have a toad race there. There's also the Fok Mountain,
the Falk Monster Festival rather, which is a big foot festival.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
There.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
There's the Beanfest and Great Championship Outhouse Race of course
you would that goes with that particular one. And then
there's the Arkansas Goat Festival with a ton of goat
theme activities.
Speaker 11 (29:58):
They've got it all up there.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
It sounds like it, yeah, and they can keep it.
Speaker 9 (30:03):
It's a forty nine inful MANIAX on this Thursday morning. Okay,
is it time to rebrand another fast food place?
Speaker 11 (30:12):
It seems to be.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, So now Domino's getting on the uh the rebrand
refresh situation, which uh you know it works for some
right uh huh.
Speaker 11 (30:23):
I kind of like what they're doing here.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Yeah, no, I I do too.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And it looks like they've got is it Shaboozy that
they've partnered up. I mean, you know, he's having a
he's having a moment. So yeah, with younger consumers in mind,
the pizza chain is a new look and sound, including
an audio visual expression voiced by Shaboozy.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Okay, so it looks.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Like they're kind of cleaning up their look, like making
it very kind of like simplified. Like they've got the
the dominoes like, the dots like are nice, big and
bold on the boxes. This is the first brand refresh
in more than a decade for Domino's Pizza, modernizing the
look and sound of the chain with younger consumers in mind.
The brighter colors, boulder type faced and new jingle comes
(31:04):
as the chain, often described as a technology company that
happens to sell pizza, continues to broaden. It's hungry for
more strategy. Yeah so you know, and they said most
companies rebrand themselves when they're struggling, but after years of
category define growth, this refresh is about continuing to push
to be the best version of ourselves. Rather than launching
a more traditional tagline, We're baking craveability right into our
(31:28):
name and every aspect of our brand. As a reminder
of this relentless focus.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Are Yeah Get this? Walt Disney World logged its slowest
three week stretch of the year in September, putting it
on track to be the quietest month since twenty twenty one.
Crowd tracker they did data from mid August to mid
September show the average weights dropped down to just twenty
four minutes per ride, even shorter during the Fourth of
(31:54):
July holiday TikTok. One of the viewers there said place
looked like a ghost town. Financially, Disney paints a different picture.
The company has reportedly chain been mostly unchanged as far
as attendance is concerned. As far as they tell us,
while their recent earnings revenue has done very very well,
we'll look back at summer months, explains part of the trend.
(32:16):
August was the slowest full month of the year to date,
averaging twenty eight minutes. As far as a wait for
any of the riots to fill the traditionally empty weeks
after Labor Day, Disney has rolled out aggressive deals. They
did an eighty nine dollars per day three park ticket
that excluded the Magic Kingdom, fifty percent off children's tickets
(32:37):
as well and they also had some free dining that
would go along with some of the packages in the meantime.
So I don't know if they're doing well or not,
but they are raising their prices as well. They just
announced this yesterday.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
Disney Company is raising ticket prices at its two major
US theme parks whilet disney World in Orlando, Florida, and
Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Disney Folks news outlet Nikki visit
dot com reports the price hikes took effect Wednesday. Disney
Lands Tier six one day ticket, used on the busiest
highs demand days, is now two hundred and twenty four
dollars per adult, a hike of eighteen bucks. It's gone
(33:12):
up over one hundred and twenty six percent the past decade.
The popular five day park hopper pass rose thirty nine
bucks to six hundred and fifty five dollars. In Orlando,
Whalt Disney World raised its peak one day ticket price
by ten dollars, pushing it to two hundred and nine bucks.
And You'll passes rose between twenty and eighty dollars. Tom Ragotti,
Fox News. There's a lot of money you can spend.
(33:33):
Eight ton Ooh, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
But I know, so it's almost a rite of passage
kind of thing. I suppose, you know, I took the
kids there though.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
I guess that's the hard part, right.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You pay so much just to get in, yeah, and
then you still have to pay so much while you're there,
like you know, for when I go on on you know,
big trips or whatever. You know, there's ways I can
like kind of validate, like okay, like I had to
spend a lot of money on the the flight, but
maybe I have a free place to stay or you know,
(34:04):
I'm staying with family or you know, we got a
really good deal on this and this, and it's like Disney.
It just feels like it just like there's like punches
coming from left, right, up.
Speaker 10 (34:12):
Down, yeah, punches, kicks yeah yeah, everything.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
Else well, and then the whole airport experience at Orlando
is not with children, yes, yes, just not not any
fun at all. So I bought apples yesterday.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Oh yeah, what kind did you get?
Speaker 9 (34:26):
I don't know, I'll tell you the kind I got.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
You do this all the time.
Speaker 9 (34:29):
You just look at the price rights pound?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, okay, oh did you Oh oh uh, you'll have
to look at the name. Okay, I saw and it
was a name that I didn't recognize, Like it sounded
like a new apple.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So we talk about honey crisp all the time because
they're one of my favorite apples, But obviously they can
also be one of the more expensive apples. Although I
will say, right now is the season, like, this is
the season if you want to get honeycrisp apples. Yes,
like right now they are at the same price as
most of the other apples on the show, at least
from what I saw yesterday when I was at the
grocery store. Now, apples obviously have a rich diversity throughout
(35:06):
history and around the world. They say that the current
selection is thanks largely to the honey crisp apple. It
was actually saved from the rejection pile of the University
of Minnesota's apple breeding program in nineteen eighty two. Yep,
and so a young horticulturalist named David Bedford. He decided
(35:27):
that you didn't need to be rejected a beloved name.
Since the early two thousands, honey crisp and its snappy
crunch have been hugely influential on the abundance of varieties
that now Grace the produce selection, so they took a
look at some of the new ones that you may
see this coming fall, this coming apple season. This one
(35:47):
I have heard of, the snap dragon, Okay, all right.
It's a cross between a honey crisp and an unnamed
New York apple variety, the Kudos, which I think maybe
I did see this at the grocery store the other day.
It is another child of the honey crisp, this time
crossed with the bright and brown sugary zester, which makes
Kudos a sibling to the sweet tango apple.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
They're all like family.
Speaker 11 (36:11):
It'saz are y. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Now this one I've never seen. It's called the Lucy
and you'll know it when you cut it open because
it's got a striking reddish pink flesh, so it doesn't
have your typical.
Speaker 11 (36:22):
White flash looks so bizarre.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And it is a result yep, it's a result crossing
honey crisp in an airly red which is another red
fleshed apple. So I don't know if we'll see any
of those down here. Something called the ever Crisp, which
is a honey crisp and a Fuji cross.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
We know Fuji. This one.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I've definitely seen the Cosmic Crisp, which I think we
talked about recently on the show that it was coming out.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
So, yeah, those are some of your new apples.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
And we have the Honey Crisp to think because I
think probably it has really good breeding properties and cross
breeding properties.
Speaker 10 (36:56):
It does, and it's very prolific as well. It puts
out a lot of fruit.
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Then that's yeah, that's for the producers.
Speaker 11 (37:02):
That's certainly.
Speaker 9 (37:02):
What the what the what they about? Three minutes still,
it's the informatix. In Poland, officers were called to an
incident on a highway at one thirty in the morning
after reports of a female falling out of a vehicle,
and that's exactly what they found. The woman's injuries not
life threatening. She was trying to take a selfie while
(37:22):
she leaned out the window.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Of course, idiot, Yes they are.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
Now we were talking about apples. How much do you
spend on butter? Oh, I've got a butter thing. You
got a butter thing?
Speaker 6 (37:36):
What does that mean butter?
Speaker 10 (37:38):
Yeah, well we use a lot of butter. I found
Amish butter that comes in like a two pound block.
It is sean a giant butter, and it lasts us
and it's so good.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
Uh, and it is.
Speaker 10 (37:50):
It's the size of like a coffee can of small coffee.
I got it at the av grocery.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
To wow, Okay, I don't buy butter.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
You don't buy butter, you don't use butter.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
Nope, okay, I buy Okay, but I do. I do
buy ghee. Yeah, it just clarified butters, I guess.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, So that's that's the kind of butter I use,
and I probably, I mean, it's it's expensive. The jar
that I buy is probably almost twelve dollars a jar,
but it lasts me a while. I don't because I
just use it more than anything like in the pan
to like saw Day veggies or something like that. And
a lot of times I use olive oil. So it
just kind of depends.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
But premium butter sales are growing. Butter priced at twenty
five percent or more expensive than the average. That's a
little bit less than that. What is the Irish butter.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
O carry gold?
Speaker 9 (38:38):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Costco carries that and I saw it
the other day.
Speaker 11 (38:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (38:42):
We're still doing Land of Lakes. Okay, that's wrong with
the Land of Lakes yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Will say I saw an article the other day.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I almost put it in my show prep and it
was like Ina Garton's favorite butter, and it did it
talked about. It wasn't carry gold. It was something I'll
have to go back and look maybe cab it.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Okay, see see a b O T. I'm pretty sure
that is a brand of butter. And it was like
a specific like creamy whatever, you know. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
Butter has apparently remained a bit of a price exception
actually since the pandemic. Surgeon cooking went up, and that's
when people decided that they would go with a better
tasting butter, and so since then it's held on to
its price. Okay, we're back to borrow my music ran
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