Latest / WTAW - Infomaniacs / The Infomaniacs: July 2, 2026 (7:00am)
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- 0:17Speaker 1: I'm will Welch. The Bryan City Council is committed to
- 0:21Speaker 1: the completion of the long delayed Midtown Park Entertainment Complex.
- 0:25Speaker 2: That facility, or the building itself is. I won't say
- 0:28Speaker 2: it's largely largely complete, but it is. It is much
- 0:31Speaker 2: more substantially completed than what it looks like from the outside.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Mayor pro Tim James Edge, visiting on our show, says
- 0:38Speaker 1: the original developer of the movie Bowling restaurant complex may
- 0:42Speaker 1: or may not be able to keep its agreement with
- 0:44Speaker 1: the city.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the Shilman family evidently has got some issues they've
- 0:48Speaker 2: got to sort out the city. Myself, I think the council,
- 0:51Speaker 2: the mayor, and the city we're all still committed to
- 0:53Speaker 2: the project, whether or not the Shilman family is involved
- 0:56Speaker 2: in it or not.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Edge says the developer has unrelated issues in Waco that
- 1:00Speaker 1: impacted the delay in completing the Midtown part complex. Texas
- 1:04Speaker 1: A and in President Susan Baalabina's newest online message includes
- 1:09Speaker 1: a leadership update.
- 1:10Speaker 3: A search Committe's been named to help select Aingam's next provost,
- 1:13Speaker 3: who's the university's chief academic officer. Another search committee's been
- 1:17Speaker 3: formed to help select the next Dean of the College
- 1:19Speaker 3: of Education. Johly First was the first day for the
- 1:22Speaker 3: interim dean at that college, who is the former dean
- 1:24Speaker 3: of the College of Veterinary Medicine, John August Doctor Ballabina
- 1:28Speaker 3: also provided an update on her review of A and
- 1:30Speaker 3: m's Health Science Center. She has what she calls a
- 1:33Speaker 3: strategy and business services team that's targeting a completion date
- 1:37Speaker 3: of their work for August first. Bill Oliver sixteen twenty
- 1:40Speaker 3: ninety four to five wtaw.
- 1:42Speaker 1: Bertlinson County's Health Resource Center is spending new state grant
- 1:46Speaker 1: money to add people to work with children who have
- 1:48Speaker 1: substance abuse and mental health issues.
- 1:51Speaker 4: Our navigators are going to educate families to help film
- 1:56Speaker 4: walk the best life they could possibly live.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Director Seawan Edwards says one of the biggest goals of
- 2:02Speaker 1: the additional staff is to help those with substance abuse
- 2:05Speaker 1: issues achieve recovery.
- 2:07Speaker 4: Goals individuals don't have support out there, so then they
- 2:11Speaker 4: oftentimes just don't followed through with some of their care
- 2:15Speaker 4: and treatment, or even relapse.
- 2:17Speaker 1: The Burlison Health Resource Center received seven hundred and fifty
- 2:20Speaker 1: thousand dollars from the Texas Opioid Abatement Council. The council,
- 2:25Speaker 1: which is funded by settlements with opioid manufacturers, also awarded
- 2:29Speaker 1: eight grants to the Texas A and M Health Science Center.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Six of the grants, totaling almost four million dollars, will
- 2:34Speaker 1: be spent by the Pharmacy College to support communities around
- 2:38Speaker 1: the state to address the opioid crisis. Saturday morning, the
- 2:42Speaker 1: Brass Valley Veterans Memorial is hosting an America to fifty
- 2:45Speaker 1: event at Veterans Park. The event was promoted on Our
- 2:49Speaker 1: show by the Vice president of the Memorial Board and
- 2:52Speaker 1: infomaniac alum, Tom Turbyville. He and Brian Broadcasting General Manager
- 2:57Speaker 1: Ben Downs will be reading the Declaration of it Dependence.
- 3:00Speaker 5: And it's color coded. I'll read the blue man, of
- 3:03Speaker 5: course the gold.
- 3:04Speaker 1: The event starts Saturday morning at nine at the sight
- 3:07Speaker 1: of the American Revolution Memorial. The program also includes fifty
- 3:11Speaker 1: six local dignitaries participating in a ceremonial signing that recognizes
- 3:16Speaker 1: the fifty six who signed the Declaration of Independence. News
- 3:21Speaker 1: is presented by Gilmour Electric Express. More news ahead at
- 3:25Speaker 1: seven thirty or any time at WTAW dot com. I'm
- 3:29Speaker 1: will welch sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW.
- 3:33Speaker 6: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five wta W Good morning,
- 3:38Speaker 6: Welcome to the second of July. We're glad you're here.
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- 4:15Speaker 7: Last night, the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros hit the field.
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- 4:20Speaker 6: This is a very cool day here at the radio station.
- 4:24Speaker 6: Very very cool in America in general. Someone listening this
- 4:29Speaker 6: is their last day on this planet to wake up
- 4:33Speaker 6: with all ten fingers.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Yeah, think about it, Riley.
- 4:39Speaker 6: Probably several people will be able.
- 4:40Speaker 1: To claim there it went off, that firework fuse finally
- 4:46Speaker 1: got to the explosion.
- 4:47Speaker 6: You have a lot of experience with safety, yeah.
- 4:49Speaker 1: And I do have some experience with the firework.
- 4:53Speaker 6: With fire and fireworks.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 4:55Speaker 6: I thought it might be a good idea to talk
- 4:57Speaker 6: about some of the safety tips that are out there,
- 5:01Speaker 6: just to say we did it more than anything, not
- 5:04Speaker 6: that I I'm under no illusions that you guys are
- 5:07Speaker 6: going to listen to the thing we have to say,
- 5:09Speaker 6: but we still need to say it.
- 5:10Speaker 1: We got to say it right. There's there's some basic
- 5:13Speaker 1: firework tips out there that you should always keep in mind.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Number one, don't let your kids handle them, and obviously
- 5:20Speaker 1: don't do anything illegal. Right. Young kids can certainly hurt
- 5:23Speaker 1: themselves even with the sparklers, right.
- 5:26Speaker 6: It's because they're two thousand degrees.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Yes, there probably still carries, you know, scours from that.
- 5:33Speaker 6: Still got a couple myself.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Right, Look, this list says keep a big bucket of
- 5:37Speaker 1: water or a garden hose handy. You need a little
- 5:40Speaker 1: more than that, you know, keep keep a fire extinguisher
- 5:42Speaker 1: handy as well. Right, you will need some water because
- 5:46Speaker 1: even though this has been an unusually damp year, grass
- 5:51Speaker 1: fires are possible as dry as it's been here recently and.
- 5:54Speaker 6: Two thousand degrees right, you know, like.
- 5:56Speaker 1: I mean again, it's it's fireworks could catch something on fire.
- 6:00Speaker 1: You don't expect it to trust me.
- 6:02Speaker 6: I know it is beautifully green, but that will come
- 6:06Speaker 6: back to bite you in the bunt.
- 6:07Speaker 1: So a bucket, that's at a minimum, and have a hose,
- 6:10Speaker 1: have a fire extinguisher real easy, Yeah, Light fireworks want
- 6:13Speaker 1: at a time, and then move quickly away light vius,
- 6:16Speaker 1: get away, it's right there on the package.
- 6:18Speaker 6: Run.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Also, don't hold them in your hand unless the instructions
- 6:22Speaker 1: specifically say to do so. Even then, man, never even
- 6:29Speaker 1: even then, Never use fireworks under the influence of alcohol
- 6:32Speaker 1: or drugs. Always have a designated exploder. Don't get cocky.
- 6:38Speaker 1: According to the latest data, only fifteen people were killed
- 6:42Speaker 1: by fireworks in twenty twenty five, only fifteen thirteen thousand
- 6:47Speaker 1: were injured. Thirty five percent of those injuries were to
- 6:51Speaker 1: the hands or fingers, twenty two percent injuries to the head, face,
- 6:55Speaker 1: or ears. Thirty eight percent of injuries involved burns. Teen
- 7:01Speaker 1: thousand insureds.
- 7:03Speaker 6: In Thirsteen thousand people, Yes, were injured last year.
- 7:09Speaker 1: And as I've said many times, there but for the
- 7:13Speaker 1: grace of God, go on.
- 7:17Speaker 6: Do you ever wonder how we even survived?
- 7:19Speaker 1: How did we make it?
- 7:20Speaker 6: Any of us?
- 7:22Speaker 8: Me?
- 7:22Speaker 6: You, Riley, Riley? Yeah, Riley definitely had some hold my
- 7:29Speaker 6: beer and watched his moments, I'm sure, But no fireworks.
- 7:32Speaker 6: Not the ninety not like the nineties, No gang like that.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Was not like the seventies, Brothers, not like the seventies.
- 7:40Speaker 6: That's your blessing. Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTA
- 7:44Speaker 6: W Texas call us way in at any time nine
- 7:47Speaker 6: seventy nine, six nine five, sixteen twenty happy beginning to
- 7:51Speaker 6: your fourth of July weekend where the info maniacs. Riley
- 7:54Speaker 6: was just introducing us to this controversy. This is gonna
- 7:57Speaker 6: take a second to get through, so please guys with us.
- 8:01Speaker 6: Are you all familiar?
- 8:02Speaker 9: Well?
- 8:02Speaker 6: O'reiley is obviously we are now familiar. But I'm asking
- 8:06Speaker 6: everyone else, and I hope you are familiar. The Yoshi
- 8:10Speaker 6: song is that ring any bells?
- 8:12Speaker 1: Blissfully unfamiliar.
- 8:14Speaker 6: So it's a video game theme song that dates back
- 8:17Speaker 6: a ways. I want to say, back to like the
- 8:19Speaker 6: Nintendo sixty four, like Yoshi's story, and it's been kind
- 8:22Speaker 6: of a it's been a thing ever since. If you
- 8:24Speaker 6: have kids that play Nintendo products, or have had kids
- 8:29Speaker 6: that play Nintendo products over the last fifteen years, you
- 8:31Speaker 6: probably heard it once. But if you haven't, I'm gonna
- 8:34Speaker 6: play it for you right now, and then we'll get
- 8:36Speaker 6: into the rest of this. Here we go. This is
- 8:38Speaker 6: the Yoshi song everyone. Some people I know have it
- 8:53Speaker 6: for the ring tones.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Even those people are sick.
- 8:57Speaker 6: So we'll get stuck in your head. Be careful, be careful,
- 9:00Speaker 6: bless America. So that's the Yoshi song. Now I'm gonna
- 9:04Speaker 6: ask you a question. Did you know that there might
- 9:07Speaker 6: be lyrics to the Yoshi song?
- 9:11Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that wasn't klingon?
- 9:13Speaker 6: Are you are you listen to it again? Listen to
- 9:16Speaker 6: it again? Because there's great debate over whether or not
- 9:20Speaker 6: people actually know the lyrics to this particular song.
- 9:37Speaker 1: A right, I'm sorry, I'm chuckling. Go ahead, chase, chase
- 9:41Speaker 1: textan please never do that again, right before right, you're
- 9:48Speaker 1: gonna I'm with you, brother, all right, So Riley.
- 9:51Speaker 6: Explain, explain what you have found?
- 9:53Speaker 7: Okay, So Universal Universal Studios in Hollywood, they have a
- 9:57Speaker 7: Yoshi Universe inside of Nintendo Park, you know, and everyone
- 10:01Speaker 7: goes there and they have a cute little Yoshi ride
- 10:03Speaker 7: where you sit inside this little like Convader Bell roller coaster,
- 10:06Speaker 7: but it goes super slow and it just takes you around.
- 10:08Speaker 6: The park and much like in Small World and Disney.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I've been to Universal Studios and I must have skipped
- 10:14Speaker 1: this part.
- 10:15Speaker 10: This section just is pretty is relatively new.
- 10:19Speaker 7: Nintendo World is this part of it where it's just
- 10:21Speaker 7: the Mario brothers, all of their world and.
- 10:23Speaker 10: Building and all that. Right, Well, when you go on
- 10:26Speaker 10: the ride, this song plays the whole time. Wow, the
- 10:30Speaker 10: entire ride, the entire ride. It raised all day.
- 10:33Speaker 1: Along Small World.
- 10:35Speaker 6: Oh time is a flat circle?
- 10:37Speaker 9: You got oh?
- 10:38Speaker 11: Yes, all right?
- 10:39Speaker 6: So the entire time you're going through this ride with
- 10:41Speaker 6: your kids, trying to hold onto your sanity all this place.
- 10:44Speaker 7: Yes, So there was this dad that had gone on
- 10:47Speaker 7: the ride, and he was with older his older kids,
- 10:49Speaker 7: so like I think his daughter was my age when
- 10:52Speaker 7: she went, and then they had like a nineteen year
- 10:55Speaker 7: old son and then like a sixteen year old daughter.
- 10:57Speaker 7: Also he's sitting on the ride with his twenty five
- 10:59Speaker 7: year old daughter and he's like hum into it a
- 11:01Speaker 7: little bit and he goes, Gosh, this song is terrible,
- 11:03Speaker 7: and then all of a sudden he pops on and
- 11:05Speaker 7: he goes poop, Let the man poop, and started singing
- 11:09Speaker 7: that as the lyrics the entire time.
- 11:10Speaker 6: Let's listen to this again. It might be.
- 11:23Speaker 7: Upon lyrics or that is like, there's it's that one.
- 11:27Speaker 7: This debate to it is girl, let the man go?
- 11:30Speaker 7: As the top two ones that everyone really hears.
- 11:33Speaker 1: How many how many entries are there into.
- 11:37Speaker 7: Different there's over probably forty. There's also a go I
- 11:43Speaker 7: like potatoes book, MacBook, mac book grow, Let the plant grow.
- 11:50Speaker 3: This is just no, not my main go.
- 11:53Speaker 1: This is just a terrible, terrible, terrible slice of society.
- 11:57Speaker 12: You've heard a few options. Well, I'm gonna play it
- 12:00Speaker 12: for you one more time. Thank you here, God, I
- 12:16Speaker 12: wish you wouldn't have told me the poop one. That's
- 12:17Speaker 12: what I hear Now, I feel like it's locked in.
- 12:20Speaker 1: I've got an injury.
- 12:21Speaker 6: Okay, what do you got? You ready?
- 12:23Speaker 1: Tennessee travel stops.
- 12:26Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, not that one. But it's just one
- 12:29Speaker 10: of those things I'm online on TikTok if you.
- 12:32Speaker 7: I had saw it one time because I'd looked up
- 12:34Speaker 7: Universal Studios because that's where I want to go one day,
- 12:36Speaker 7: because I want to go to Toad World. I love
- 12:38Speaker 7: the Toad and Mario Kart I played him all the time.
- 12:40Speaker 7: He was my Ogi character and my brother was Yoshi.
- 12:44Speaker 7: Well then this popped up and I clicked on it,
- 12:46Speaker 7: and all of a sudden, I went down this like
- 12:48Speaker 7: rabbit hole of this the Yoshi song the Yoshi theme park,
- 12:53Speaker 7: and then now they have it to where they have
- 12:55Speaker 7: sections broken out throughout the day where they have the
- 12:57Speaker 7: people that are dressed up in the giant Yoshi costume
- 13:00Speaker 7: and there's a dance to this song and people go
- 13:03Speaker 7: and watch it so they can hear the song and
- 13:05Speaker 7: see the Yoshi's dancing to it.
- 13:06Speaker 6: And hear it just a little bit more.
- 13:08Speaker 1: So you went down the rabbit hole. Now you're thank
- 13:11Speaker 1: you for dragging us down with you.
- 13:13Speaker 10: Here's you're welcome.
- 13:15Speaker 6: I know this is there's one side of this. It's
- 13:17Speaker 6: very interesting. But you are a parent, you have raised
- 13:20Speaker 6: two daughters. What is the most annoying song that you
- 13:25Speaker 6: have experienced over that time as a father?
- 13:28Speaker 13: Is it?
- 13:28Speaker 4: This?
- 13:28Speaker 6: Does this mean? Because there's got to be more?
- 13:30Speaker 1: No, you see they they did not do the video games,
- 13:32Speaker 1: and so we did not have this in our house.
- 13:34Speaker 1: And I did not play. If I played a video
- 13:37Speaker 1: game it was a sports or active shooting. No, it
- 13:42Speaker 1: wasn't that stuff. So no, I wasn't really exposed that
- 13:45Speaker 1: I would have to say, and Tucker, don't reach over
- 13:47Speaker 1: the console.
- 13:47Speaker 6: That's fine, let it go. Let it go.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Was the one that got you just because of repetition. Really, yeah,
- 13:53Speaker 1: it was just so repetitive.
- 13:54Speaker 3: Okay, just went over and over and over.
- 13:57Speaker 10: I agree.
- 13:57Speaker 6: Look there generationally, there's so many of these. I know
- 14:01Speaker 6: that as soon as I say that there's gonna be
- 14:03Speaker 6: someone that most of you are gonna have one that
- 14:05Speaker 6: haunts your dreams.
- 14:06Speaker 10: I've got two or three.
- 14:07Speaker 6: Okay, well it call us textas nine seven nine six
- 14:10Speaker 6: ninety five.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, Larry says, and I thought, the
- 14:13Speaker 1: same thing. Sounds like the little drummer boy, hey bump,
- 14:18Speaker 1: Oh you know what I can, I can, I can.
- 14:21Speaker 1: Don't play it again.
- 14:22Speaker 6: No I'm not no, no, no, we're fine. We're fine.
- 14:27Speaker 6: Some of the early submissions, by the way, for for
- 14:30Speaker 6: most annoying song, and again generationally, depending on when you
- 14:33Speaker 6: were raising your kids, there's there's certainly going to be
- 14:37Speaker 6: some different layers to this.
- 14:41Speaker 7: Oh no, not this one.
- 14:43Speaker 6: Yeah, this is probably the wrong video. Come on, this
- 14:51Speaker 6: number got because you didn't have kids that were of
- 14:54Speaker 6: that age. This doesn't affect me.
- 14:56Speaker 1: I got in just under the wires.
- 14:57Speaker 9: For some people, this is gonna be worse than anything
- 15:01Speaker 9: you have ever ever heard, because, like you said, the repetition,
- 15:07Speaker 9: it just never ends anyway, Texas call us.
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- 15:47Speaker 1: from THE wtaw. Newsroom good, Morning i'm Will. Welch Bransis
- 15:51Speaker 1: County sheriff's deputies helped locate a missing elderly man From Henderson.
- 15:55Speaker 1: County The Brandis County Sheriff's Department's facebook page says can
- 16:00Speaker 1: earned citizens called after spotting the eighty year old man
- 16:02Speaker 1: walking Along highway thirty Near WILLIAM. D Fitch, parkway appearing
- 16:06Speaker 1: confused and struggling to. Walk thanks to a license plate,
- 16:09Speaker 1: reader deputies located the man's abandoned, car alerting them to
- 16:13Speaker 1: the fact that the man had been reported missing and
- 16:16Speaker 1: had medical. Concerns as it turns, out a passer by
- 16:19Speaker 1: had picked up the man to get gas and returned
- 16:21Speaker 1: him to his. Car he was evaluated BY ems and
- 16:24Speaker 1: has been reunited with his. Family College chas police is
- 16:28Speaker 1: looking for those responsible for gunfire that injured two. PEOPLE
- 16:32Speaker 1: A Cspd facebook post did not give the date or
- 16:35Speaker 1: time of the gunfire At Southgate Village apartments On Luther.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Street two gunshot victims were taken to local hospitals for
- 16:42Speaker 1: treatment of non life threatening. INJURIES cspd has also not
- 16:46Speaker 1: released anything that investigators have learned about what led to the.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Gunfire anyone with information is asked to CALL. Cspd deadlines are,
- 16:55Speaker 1: looming according To brian's mayor pro tem for the original
- 16:58Speaker 1: developer of The Midtown park entertainment complex to resume long
- 17:02Speaker 1: delayed construction of The Movie bowling restaurant.
- 17:05Speaker 2: Facility it's regretful that they've got some issues unrelated to
- 17:08Speaker 2: that specific project that they're dealing.
- 17:11Speaker 1: WITH i think up In. Waco James edge provided an
- 17:14Speaker 1: update during his latest visit on our.
- 17:16Speaker 2: SHOW i don't want to jinx, anything AND i certainly
- 17:18Speaker 2: don't want to take anything away from The shulman, family
- 17:21Speaker 2: but we have to do what's right for the citizens
- 17:23Speaker 2: and the taxpayers Of, brian and that may or may
- 17:25Speaker 2: not include The shulman, family BUT i will tell you
- 17:27Speaker 2: that will be a destination entertainment venue of some.
- 17:31Speaker 1: Sort edge also says he is anticipating The Midtown Park
- 17:34Speaker 1: lake being filled and the completion of the park's signature.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Playground The Brian College Station Salvation army announces on Its
- 17:42Speaker 1: facebook page a new commanding, Officer Major David, swiers is
- 17:46Speaker 1: A texas, native according to The Galveston Salvation army, website
- 17:50Speaker 1: where he held a similar. POSITION bcs is his fifth
- 17:53Speaker 1: stop In texas as part of a twenty six year
- 17:56Speaker 1: career where he's also served in three other. States the
- 18:00Speaker 1: newest message on the website Of texas And In President
- 18:02Speaker 1: Susan ballabina begins with sharing three priorities that she recently
- 18:06Speaker 1: gave to her senior.
- 18:08Speaker 3: Leaders the first, priority restore, trust is defined as providing study,
- 18:12Speaker 3: leadership strengthening relationships with internal and external stakeholders through transparency and,
- 18:17Speaker 3: engagement and building confidence IN a AND m through decisions
- 18:21Speaker 3: that advances the university's mission and reflects core. Values, second
- 18:25Speaker 3: turning challenges into opportunities is defined as tackling complex, issues
- 18:30Speaker 3: drive operational, excellence reduce, bureaucracy and executing on big. Ideas
- 18:36Speaker 3: third is celebrate And, innovate which is defined as leveraging
- 18:39Speaker 3: the momentum OF a and m's one hundred and fifty
- 18:41Speaker 3: year history to honor the university's past while advancing a
- 18:45Speaker 3: shared vision for the. Future ballabini says she'll expand on
- 18:48Speaker 3: her three priorities AS A a AND. M Sesqui centennial year.
- 18:51Speaker 3: Continues Bill oliver, sixteen twenty ninety four to FIVE.
- 18:55Speaker 1: WTAW Wtaw news has received more information about money coming
- 19:00Speaker 1: to Two Branxas valley recipients from The Texas Opioid Abatement.
- 19:04Speaker 1: Fund seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars is going To
- 19:07Speaker 1: Burlison County's Health Resource center to hire additional people to
- 19:11Speaker 1: work in local schools with students and their, families to.
- 19:14Speaker 13: Work with families where they, are and to link the,
- 19:19Speaker 13: family not just, kids to be think the, kids the,
- 19:23Speaker 13: parents to the broad range of services that we're already working.
- 19:27Speaker 1: With the Retired Health center Director Albert ramerez, says the
- 19:31Speaker 1: additional people will reduce their reliance on out of town.
- 19:34Speaker 1: Agencies they're based In Brian College.
- 19:36Speaker 13: Station they might have a day or two and they
- 19:39Speaker 13: can come To Burston county and work with us in our.
- 19:42Speaker 13: Referrals then they are off To Washington county and then
- 19:45Speaker 13: they're off To Grimes, county or they're back In brian
- 19:47Speaker 13: serving the large numbers of folks in The Brian College station.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Area The State Opioid Grant fund also awarded eight grants
- 19:54Speaker 1: To TEXAS a And M's Health Science. Center six of
- 19:57Speaker 1: the eight, grants totally almost four million, dollars will be
- 20:00Speaker 1: spent by The Pharmacy college to support communities around the
- 20:03Speaker 1: state to address the opioid. Crisis the reading of The
- 20:07Speaker 1: declaration Of independence will take Place saturday morning at nine
- 20:10Speaker 1: In Veterans park at The Brass Valley Veterans. Memorial the
- 20:14Speaker 1: vice president of The Memorial, Board Tom, turbyville says that
- 20:18Speaker 1: will be followed by a ceremonial signing recognizing the fifty
- 20:22Speaker 1: six who signed The declaration Of. Independence we have.
- 20:25Speaker 5: Fifty six signers to represent those fifty six original, signers
- 20:30Speaker 5: really and those people are going to be community leaders
- 20:33Speaker 5: and their fifty six of them are going to sign
- 20:36Speaker 5: their name to a special.
- 20:38Speaker 1: Document reading The declaration Of independence will Be, turbyville an
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- 20:55Speaker 1: i'm will welch sixteen twenty ninety four to FIVE wtaw.
- 21:00Speaker 6: Tw The Info Maniacs Good morning six nine, five sixteen
- 21:03Speaker 6: twenty is our text, line and we are going through
- 21:06Speaker 6: some of your choices for the most annoying kid songs
- 21:11Speaker 6: ever in honor of our lyrical journey down the world
- 21:14Speaker 6: of The. Yoshi oh you're doing it again?
- 21:17Speaker 13: Right?
- 21:17Speaker 6: WELL i had, to of Course riley brought this to.
- 21:19Speaker 1: US i was.
- 21:20Speaker 6: Intrigued, jay by the, way might have the best text.
- 21:22Speaker 6: Ever he might have figured out the actual lyrics to
- 21:25Speaker 6: The yoshi, song AND i will read them BEFORE i play.
- 21:27Speaker 6: It jay, says sing it it. Works THE tu team. Sucks,
- 21:36Speaker 6: okay you get. It, okay here we. Go let's listen
- 21:39Speaker 6: to it.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Again let's listen to it.
- 21:44Speaker 3: Again.
- 21:45Speaker 11: SUCKS i, mean if you're gonna make up words to
- 21:53Speaker 11: a horrible, song you might as well make up good.
- 21:56Speaker 6: Ones everyone says small world really is at another. Level
- 22:00Speaker 6: still doesn't come to a small, World.
- 22:02Speaker 1: Chase chase, Said, BARNEY i love. YOU i love most annoying.
- 22:05Speaker 6: Songs oh my, goodness this was see this was my, childhood.
- 22:09Speaker 6: RIGHT i love.
- 22:10Speaker 1: You oh you're having to you just love?
- 22:12Speaker 6: Me, tay especially, MONEY.
- 22:19Speaker 13: I mean.
- 22:20Speaker 6: Money we can't even bathom.
- 22:22Speaker 1: Me he was a big. Deal it was a big purple.
- 22:25Speaker 6: Deal riley was saying, that, uh for whatever, reason when
- 22:28Speaker 6: her was your brother was the one that grew. Up, okay,
- 22:33Speaker 6: My so Obviously riley is familiar with this little toe
- 22:37Speaker 6: tapper right, Here, Yummy will doesn't know. It will blissfully believe.
- 22:48Speaker 13: Me this one was.
- 22:49Speaker 6: Horrible, YEAH i.
- 22:51Speaker 1: WILL i will put one into the category here as
- 22:54Speaker 1: far as because during my, time there was no more
- 22:57Speaker 1: annoying song than The. MACARENA i like that, song of
- 23:03Speaker 1: course you. Would so during the, Nineties i'm working rock
- 23:06Speaker 1: radio in Northwest, arkansas and it was in the late.
- 23:09Speaker 10: Nineties was an if you're on a rock, channel who
- 23:12Speaker 10: plays The? Macarena but YOU i.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Did every AFTERNOON i would play a snippet of The
- 23:17Speaker 1: macarena and then an explosion BECAUSE i FOUNDED, mesa The
- 23:22Speaker 1: Macarena Eradication society Of. America oh oh my, Gosh file
- 23:27Speaker 1: ONE c. Three oh thanks just bringing it. Back that's your, legacy.
- 23:33Speaker 6: DUDE i went to this song my brothers still a
- 23:37Speaker 6: wedding staple to this.
- 23:39Speaker 13: Day he.
- 23:42Speaker 6: Swucking Bill oliver back of the.
- 23:43Speaker 3: Show how you, doing, Man i'm just having rushing And ball.
- 23:46Speaker 3: Flashbacks that was one Of Bill clinton's updates on.
- 23:50Speaker 6: Absolutely was it is your last day at the radio. Stage,
- 23:54Speaker 6: yes and you are still going out on an assignment
- 23:58Speaker 6: this very, morning WHICH i had.
- 24:01Speaker 3: To come in here and warn. You then proud of
- 24:03Speaker 3: walking out of date to head To Boonville park for
- 24:05Speaker 3: the tree.
- 24:05Speaker 6: Plane if you weren't, Familiar, Yes bill is tell them
- 24:09Speaker 6: where you're going.
- 24:10Speaker 3: Again i'm heading To, Maryville, missouri which is in the
- 24:14Speaker 3: triangle Between omaha and the Morning Kansas. City i'll be
- 24:17Speaker 3: about twenty minutes From, iowa twenty minutes From, missouri twenty
- 24:20Speaker 3: minutes From, nebraska heading back to my alma. Mater and
- 24:24Speaker 3: you'll be doing a little, education doing some, reporting doing some. Education,
- 24:29Speaker 3: yeah but the job is the. Vehicle the reason for
- 24:32Speaker 3: the move is to get within two hours of daughters
- 24:36Speaker 3: and ten and fourteen year old, granddaughters which is a beautiful.
- 24:38Speaker 6: Thing, yes if you AND.
- 24:40Speaker 3: I appreciate all the responses That i've received who get
- 24:45Speaker 3: the idea of being close to famis absolutely everybody.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Understands. Bill the reasons. Completely what people are having to
- 24:53Speaker 1: come to terms with is that you are an.
- 24:55Speaker 3: Icon they think they're coming having to come to.
- 24:57Speaker 6: Terms They, Well i'll tell you this if you follow
- 25:02Speaker 6: us On, facebook and you should BECAUSE i mean it's
- 25:05Speaker 6: this is where we post all of our.
- 25:06Speaker 1: News it's a great way to.
- 25:08Speaker 6: Interact one of the things we've gotten is is various
- 25:12Speaker 6: video messages from, people.
- 25:13Speaker 3: AND i appreciate those who have taken the time to do, that.
- 25:15Speaker 6: Which is, very very. Cool we've been sharing some of those,
- 25:17Speaker 6: yesterday we're sharing more of, today probably sharing more of
- 25:19Speaker 6: The friday because the people have a lot to. Say
- 25:21Speaker 6: people have a lot to, say because there is a
- 25:23Speaker 6: lot of appreciation for the level of excellence because again
- 25:26Speaker 6: there's not that many. There there's a lot of information
- 25:29Speaker 6: out there that you live in a time where there's
- 25:31Speaker 6: more information than any other human has had to deal
- 25:35Speaker 6: with over the entirety of. History but the specific stuff
- 25:41Speaker 6: that happens that comes out of THE wtaw, newsroom there
- 25:44Speaker 6: really isn't another option for that, locally and there's very
- 25:48Speaker 6: few options for that. Nationally.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Uh and this is coming from someone Named tucker who
- 25:53Speaker 3: knows national.
- 25:54Speaker 6: Broadcasting it's i'll tell you from the national, Level, yeah
- 25:57Speaker 6: it's it's it's hard to find a a newsroom that's
- 26:01Speaker 6: operated in radio today at.
- 26:04Speaker 1: All even if it's. Funded, yeah even if it's. Funded
- 26:07Speaker 1: you don't have a bill on home, Talking.
- 26:08Speaker 6: Yeah you don't have. It it's just it is what it.
- 26:10Speaker 6: Is we've been, very very very blessed to have the
- 26:13Speaker 6: luxury Of bill here for almost seventeen. YEARS i did
- 26:16Speaker 6: have one more they want to play for, you AND
- 26:19Speaker 6: i couldn't do this one because it wasn't a. Video
- 26:20Speaker 6: otherwise it would put it on Social but since it's audio,
- 26:23Speaker 6: Only i'm just going to play it for you while you're.
- 26:25Speaker 1: Here check.
- 26:25Speaker 8: It, Hey, Baill i'm out of. Town, SORRY i couldn't be.
- 26:28Speaker 8: THERE i just wanted to say it's been an honor
- 26:31Speaker 8: to work with you for seventeen. YEARS i watched as
- 26:35Speaker 8: you learned the workings of our government. Bodies you covered
- 26:38Speaker 8: the school, boards the board Of, regents the county, commissioners
- 26:42Speaker 8: the city, councils the tech dot. Workshops you dug deep
- 26:46Speaker 8: into the, Agendas you did long form interviews to get
- 26:50Speaker 8: the details that we all, needed and every other media
- 26:54Speaker 8: outlet followed your. Lead because the detailed work that you
- 26:57Speaker 8: did the vast majority party of the awards that we
- 27:01Speaker 8: have on the walls Of brian, broadcasting or because you
- 27:04Speaker 8: took the time to listen not only to the content
- 27:06Speaker 8: you had, produced but ours, too and you turn them
- 27:10Speaker 8: into tab and we won a ton of awards because of.
- 27:13Speaker 8: That so many of the questions THAT i would ask
- 27:17Speaker 8: either came directly from you or conversations THAT i had with.
- 27:21Speaker 8: You now the next chapter starts for you as you
- 27:25Speaker 8: go back to your alma mater to oversee programming and most,
- 27:28Speaker 8: importantly teach young people how to cover news the right.
- 27:32Speaker 8: Way thank you for your time. Here now go back
- 27:36Speaker 8: home and do the same thing for. Them my, friend
- 27:39Speaker 8: working with you for seventeen years was a true. PLEASURE
- 27:42Speaker 8: i admire the work that you.
- 27:44Speaker 6: Do and thanks To scott for sending that in from.
- 27:47Speaker 3: You, yeah anybody who considers me a, Goat i'm just a.
- 27:49Speaker 6: Kid. Scott oh. Agree we agree with everything he.
- 27:53Speaker 1: Said, man not That I'm i'm going to try to.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Follow nobody wants to Follow scott De. Lusia But i've
- 27:58Speaker 1: been thinking about the fact THAT i have a fairly
- 28:01Speaker 1: unique experience With Bill, oliver one OF i think maybe
- 28:05Speaker 1: two or three people THAT i know of, have and
- 28:08Speaker 1: that is That i've worked on both sides of the
- 28:09Speaker 1: fence With. Bill WHEN i was in Public information For
- 28:13Speaker 1: Texas Task force one and in marketing COMMUNICATIONS. Fertiqus FREQUENTLY
- 28:18Speaker 1: i would work With bill on stories that we had
- 28:22Speaker 1: involving those, things and then to be able to work
- 28:25Speaker 1: with you on this side of the microphone as. Well
- 28:27Speaker 1: it's been an, absolute true. Honor and it's just like
- 28:30Speaker 1: WHEN i said To, scott it's a career. Highlight thank
- 28:33Speaker 1: you for.
- 28:34Speaker 6: That it is a beautiful welcome AND i know we
- 28:37Speaker 6: would keep you the rest of the. Show, well you've
- 28:38Speaker 6: got work to do because you don't believe in short. Timing,
- 28:40Speaker 6: no you've actually still got Things jarrel the, Clock, Bill so,
- 28:44Speaker 6: yeah and again EVERYTHING i know everyone echoes those sentiments
- 28:48Speaker 6: and we're going to miss your.
- 28:49Speaker 3: Man thank you back after this.
- 28:54Speaker 7: Good, Morning I'm Riley blurkey with your morning sports Up
- 28:57Speaker 7: day on, sixteen twenty ninety four or, five will you ta.
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- 29:11Speaker 10: Easy in THE. Mlb last, night The.
- 29:14Speaker 7: Cleveland guardians defeated The Texas, rangers nine to four to
- 29:18Speaker 7: snap The rangers six game winning.
- 29:20Speaker 10: Streak rangers Manager Skip schumacher recap the.
- 29:23Speaker 14: Game these guys played, hard it was hot out, there
- 29:26Speaker 14: hot for both, teams and not making an excuse or,
- 29:27Speaker 14: anything but after a long road trip like, that to
- 29:30Speaker 14: come away with seven wins on this, TRIP i think
- 29:32Speaker 14: we would have signed up for that end of the,
- 29:34Speaker 14: day of the.
- 29:34Speaker 11: Week you.
- 29:35Speaker 14: Know we we put up a fight. Too that was
- 29:37Speaker 14: not just a you, know roll them over type of.
- 29:39Speaker 14: Game we put up a fight to the. End and
- 29:41Speaker 14: it's just the team is really coming together at the right,
- 29:44Speaker 14: time and especially with all the injuries that we've. Had
- 29:46Speaker 14: you wouldn't know it the way they're going about, it but,
- 29:49Speaker 14: yeah we. Have we have a few games left obviously
- 29:51Speaker 14: before the, break some really important, games some weird off
- 29:53Speaker 14: days in the middle of.
- 29:54Speaker 15: Them BUT i, think you, know it's.
- 29:56Speaker 14: UH i still feel like we're in a good spot
- 29:58Speaker 14: and our bullpen is kind of reset now because Of
- 30:01Speaker 14: mac going five In santos providing a couple, innings so
- 30:04Speaker 14: we should be in a better spot.
- 30:05Speaker 7: Tomorrow Minnesota twins Pitcher Taj bradley struck out eleven to
- 30:09Speaker 7: tie his career high in The twins eight to three
- 30:12Speaker 7: win over The Houston Astros Chicago. Cubs Dansby swanson had
- 30:16Speaker 7: three homers and eight RBIs.
- 30:18Speaker 10: As The cubs pounded The San Diego padres twenty three
- 30:21Speaker 10: to three in last night's.
- 30:23Speaker 7: Game yesterday was day four of the round thirty two
- 30:26Speaker 7: knockout rounds in THE Fifa World.
- 30:28Speaker 10: Cup to start off the, Day.
- 30:30Speaker 7: Harry kane double Saves england Against congo D r As
- 30:34Speaker 7: england came away with a two to one. Victory belgium
- 30:37Speaker 7: also stayed alive yesterday in the thirty two knockout, round
- 30:41Speaker 7: Beating senegal three to. Two and, last but not, least
- 30:44Speaker 7: The United states Beat Bosnia hertzegovina to Reach World Cup round.
- 30:49Speaker 7: Sixteen following The United states two to zero, Win Mauricia
- 30:53Speaker 7: pocatino spoke about the mentality and the atmosphere of the. Game, well.
- 30:59Speaker 15: Today the player on the, stuff all the people that may,
- 31:05Speaker 15: possible you, know to perform in the way that we
- 31:08Speaker 15: will performed. Today and then Saying god to the, fans
- 31:11Speaker 15: they were. Amazing one more. Time we are so proud
- 31:14Speaker 15: in behalf all the, stuff all the people up next.
- 31:17Speaker 7: To THE us will take the field again On july
- 31:20Speaker 7: sixth Against belgium in The round of. Sixteen aggie football
- 31:24Speaker 7: Safety Marcus ratcliffe has been named to The Walter camp
- 31:27Speaker 7: PRESEASON Fbs All American Second. Team the honor Marx ratcliffe's
- 31:32Speaker 7: second Preseason All american, recognition as he was also selected
- 31:36Speaker 7: to The Athlon Sports Preseason All American Second team earlier this.
- 31:40Speaker 7: Month ratcliffe returns for his third season In agiland after
- 31:44Speaker 7: transferring From San Diego. State in thirty eight career, games
- 31:48Speaker 7: he's had thirty five starts totaled one hundred and sixty three,
- 31:51Speaker 7: tackles seven point five, tackles four, loss four, interceptions four pass,
- 31:56Speaker 7: breakups one force, fumble four quarterback, hurries and one blocked.
- 32:00Speaker 10: Kick ratcliffe has recorded three.
- 32:03Speaker 7: Plus tackles in thirty games and five plus tackles in eighteen,
- 32:07Speaker 7: contests including a career high eight tackles on three occasions
- 32:11Speaker 7: Against texas in twenty twenty four And Notre dame In
- 32:14Speaker 7: Mississippi state in twenty twenty. Five during the twenty twenty five,
- 32:18Speaker 7: Season ratcliffe ranked second on the team and seventh AMONG
- 32:21Speaker 7: sec safeties with sixty five tackles while adding three tackles for,
- 32:25Speaker 7: loss three pass breakups and.
- 32:27Speaker 10: Two quarterback curries in thirteen.
- 32:29Speaker 7: Games he recorded three plus tackles in eleven contests and
- 32:33Speaker 7: five plus tackles eight times during the. Season he also
- 32:37Speaker 7: posted an eighty point three grade From Pro Football.
- 32:40Speaker 10: Focus ranking sixth AMONG sec.
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