Latest / WTAW - Infomaniacs / The Infomaniacs: June 23, 2026 (6:00am)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm will Welch. Around
- 0:06Speaker 1: fifteen hundred College Station ISD employees are again dealing with
- 0:10Speaker 1: a new provider of health insurance. Price was the driving
- 0:14Speaker 1: factor in last week's school board decision. Changing to Baylor,
- 0:17Speaker 1: Scott and White starting September first, was going to save
- 0:20Speaker 1: between eighty seven and four hundred and fifty five dollars
- 0:23Speaker 1: a month, depending on the plan, compared with staying with
- 0:26Speaker 1: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas. Csisd's consultant, Ross Gunnals
- 0:30Speaker 1: Of and Co Insurance said it was not financially possible
- 0:33Speaker 1: to offer employees a choice of both companies.
- 0:36Speaker 2: You would think an employer with roughly fifteen hundred people
- 0:39Speaker 2: enrolled would have the ability to do that, But in
- 0:41Speaker 2: these bids, the carrier assumes a certain participation rate, and
- 0:45Speaker 2: so if you cut into that, both carriers are going
- 0:47Speaker 2: to assume the worse and they're going to assume adverse risk,
- 0:50Speaker 2: and they're going to all raise their rates up to
- 0:53Speaker 2: where it's not affordable in either option.
- 0:55Speaker 1: CSISD board members were told Blue Cross was raising their
- 0:58Speaker 1: rates twenty eight percent because the dollar amount of claims
- 1:01Speaker 1: they paid last year was nine percent above the revenue
- 1:04Speaker 1: they received from CSISD employees. Brian ISD school board members
- 1:09Speaker 1: decided to pay for replacing air conditioning chillers at five
- 1:12Speaker 1: elementary schools with bond money approved by voters in twenty
- 1:15Speaker 1: twenty instead of last November's bond issue. Recommendations from Deputy
- 1:20Speaker 1: Superintendent Brian Merrill also included making the purchase through a
- 1:23Speaker 1: cooperative instead of seeking bids. That's in order to meet
- 1:27Speaker 1: an August deadline to spend the bond money from six
- 1:30Speaker 1: years ago.
- 1:30Speaker 3: So we're going to take twenty twenty five items. Many
- 1:33Speaker 3: of it is the mechanical engineering, plumbing technology, and we're
- 1:36Speaker 3: going to move that forward and we're going to pay
- 1:38Speaker 3: for it out of twenty twenty. But to do that,
- 1:40Speaker 3: there's a ton limit on using bonds and we want
- 1:42Speaker 3: to make sure we always honor that.
- 1:45Speaker 1: The budget was not announced to replace chillers at Bottom, Crockett, Houston, Johnson,
- 1:49Speaker 1: and Navarro elementary schools. The City of College Station is
- 1:53Speaker 1: in the middle of the public comment period about how
- 1:55Speaker 1: more than three and a half million dollars in federal
- 1:58Speaker 1: Community Development grant money will be spent next year.
- 2:01Speaker 4: This process determine the most pressing need is affordable housing,
- 2:05Speaker 4: while the biggest barrier was public transportation.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Rainy Whitwell of the city's Community Development Office detailed the
- 2:12Speaker 1: two hundred and six page draft at the last City
- 2:14Speaker 1: Council meeting. The public comment period ends July thirteenth, and
- 2:18Speaker 1: the council takes action on July twenty third. Grant restrictions
- 2:22Speaker 1: are to benefit low and moderate income residents, aid in
- 2:25Speaker 1: the elimination of slum and blight, and address an urgent
- 2:28Speaker 1: community need.
- 2:30Speaker 5: More than fifty people named to.
- 2:31Speaker 1: A Brass County committee at the last County Commission meeting
- 2:35Speaker 1: left County Commissioner Fred Brown with questions.
- 2:38Speaker 5: Chiz, I don't understand this.
- 2:39Speaker 1: You know, normally, if you've got ten people on a committee,
- 2:43Speaker 1: it's hard.
- 2:44Speaker 5: To get inboy to agree to anything.
- 2:46Speaker 6: But here we're going to have fifty people on a
- 2:49Speaker 6: fifty plus people in the committee.
- 2:51Speaker 5: That's going to be a train wreck.
- 2:52Speaker 1: County Judge Dwayne Peters read off the names of those
- 2:55Speaker 1: on the Brass County Grand Jury who will also hear
- 2:58Speaker 1: salary grievances filed by elected official.
- 3:01Speaker 7: Those are all off the grand jury. That's what that
- 3:04Speaker 7: list of ninety so those are grand jury and they
- 3:07Speaker 7: can serve on salary, but only nine gets served.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Peters says, if the Grievance Committee unanimously supports the elected official,
- 3:14Speaker 1: then the Commission must raise the salary. If the committee
- 3:17Speaker 1: vote is eight to one, then the Commission makes the decision.
- 3:20Speaker 1: If there are two or more no votes, then the
- 3:23Speaker 1: elected official loses the appeal. More news ahead at six
- 3:27Speaker 1: thirty or anytime at WTAW dot com. I'm will welch
- 3:31Speaker 1: sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
- 3:35Speaker 5: What do we call this? Is it a Is it
- 3:37Speaker 5: a heat dome? A heat dome? That's the official term.
- 3:40Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the official term. I saw
- 3:43Speaker 1: a meteorologist post about it, say they just left town
- 3:47Speaker 1: and we invited the heat dome in and they left.
- 3:50Speaker 5: That's great. How long is the heat dome last?
- 3:53Speaker 6: I think about six months? Mostly cloud is becoming sunny today.
- 3:57Speaker 6: I have ninety four degrees uh more clouds tonight seventy
- 4:02Speaker 6: six and right right back up, Heaton dex is one
- 4:04Speaker 6: of six today, one of four tomorrow. And I'm sure
- 4:07Speaker 6: that's just the way for a little while. Weather's brought
- 4:09Speaker 6: to you by Malick Service Company and the Texas Heat
- 4:12Speaker 6: Rear conditioner works overtime, sure does, but a well twoed ay. See,
- 4:15Speaker 6: you'll save you money and keep it comfortable. Turn to
- 4:17Speaker 6: the experts at Mallick and Carrier to keep your AC
- 4:20Speaker 6: running properly.
- 4:21Speaker 5: Malick. Feel of the difference.
- 4:23Speaker 8: We'll hear from Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson as he
- 4:26Speaker 8: recaps the Sooners beating North Carolina in the men's College
- 4:29Speaker 8: World Series in sports.
- 4:31Speaker 5: What does that mean? Does that mean they won?
- 4:33Speaker 8: Yes, Oklahoma winded up beating North Carolina by It was
- 4:36Speaker 8: thirteen to two the ending score.
- 4:38Speaker 5: Did they sell a game to play?
- 4:39Speaker 6: Or is that that old Oklahoma got a got a
- 4:43Speaker 6: championship in baseball SEC?
- 4:46Speaker 8: Yes, after they took eleventh in the SEC, they winded
- 4:48Speaker 8: up winning the What I mean, that's.
- 4:51Speaker 5: Uh, just all right. I haven't paid any attention to
- 4:55Speaker 5: the College World Series this year. Yes, that's stop been.
- 4:58Speaker 5: I don't know why.
- 4:58Speaker 6: Well, there's a lot going on right normally there's not
- 5:01Speaker 6: a World Cup happening, you know, I'm just coming off
- 5:03Speaker 6: of the like, you know, way too much NBA this
- 5:06Speaker 6: this playoff cycle. Like usually I don't care about the
- 5:08Speaker 6: NBA because you know.
- 5:10Speaker 5: Traditionally you were neck deep in the NBA, so I get.
- 5:14Speaker 5: But yeah, also, O you winning.
- 5:15Speaker 6: Is just yea, just a bad taste, you know what
- 5:19Speaker 6: I mean?
- 5:19Speaker 5: That is congratulations, that's okay. I mean they live in Oklahoma.
- 5:26Speaker 5: How are we doing today, Riley?
- 5:27Speaker 8: I'm doing good. I started off the morning a little
- 5:30Speaker 8: weird that that's.
- 5:31Speaker 5: What I heard. That's what I heard of what happened?
- 5:34Speaker 8: Uh got here earlier than usual. I don't know my
- 5:37Speaker 8: I woke up before my alarm and it was one
- 5:38Speaker 8: of those days you know, you try to go back
- 5:41Speaker 8: to sleep, but it's just not going to happen, and
- 5:43Speaker 8: then you realize if you do, you're gonna wake up
- 5:44Speaker 8: feeling worse. Got up, god dressed, got here right before three,
- 5:50Speaker 8: came up the elevator and then my alarm is going off.
- 5:53Speaker 8: My three o'clock in the morning alarm is going off.
- 5:55Speaker 6: One of the fifteen that's the lasts alarm.
- 6:00Speaker 8: Yeah okay, And I'm walking off the elevator here on
- 6:02Speaker 8: the fifth floor of Brian Broadcasting. And you know that
- 6:04Speaker 8: those doors that are right I didn't even know there
- 6:07Speaker 8: were doors the fire doors by the bathrooms. Didn't even
- 6:10Speaker 8: know there were doors there. Have not paid enough attention,
- 6:12Speaker 8: should have, but didn't. They were closed this morning on
- 6:15Speaker 8: both sides. So in the midst of turning off set alarm,
- 6:19Speaker 8: I ran smack dab into the door head first, nearly
- 6:24Speaker 8: knocked myself out, and was like, how the heck did
- 6:26Speaker 8: this happen?
- 6:27Speaker 5: How bad of a face plant?
- 6:28Speaker 9: Was?
- 6:28Speaker 5: Is? Did you fall backwards? At that point?
- 6:30Speaker 6: Are just like, oh, stagger, Like did your butt hit
- 6:32Speaker 6: the ground? Is what I'm asking.
- 6:34Speaker 8: I didn't hit the ground, but I hit the door
- 6:36Speaker 8: hard enough that I hit my hand, knocked my phone
- 6:39Speaker 8: out of my hand, and I probably have a bump
- 6:40Speaker 8: on my forehead.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Oh I'm picturing. I'm picturing the cartoon. We get the
- 6:46Speaker 1: little stars going around the head.
- 6:50Speaker 8: What's funny is once I hit it, I kind of
- 6:52Speaker 8: was looked around. I'm like, why is it so dark?
- 6:54Speaker 8: Am I like? Did I get off on the wrong floor?
- 6:56Speaker 8: Am I stuck? Like? What's going on there? I realized
- 6:57Speaker 8: there was a door, and I opened it, and I
- 6:59Speaker 8: was like, all right, the door was closed, but it's
- 7:01Speaker 8: also just muggy.
- 7:04Speaker 5: You said fire doors.
- 7:05Speaker 6: I immediately thought, is this related to our second problem
- 7:08Speaker 6: of the morning, which is it's hot.
- 7:11Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bad mouth the heat,
- 7:14Speaker 1: because typically it is you know, scorching here in the
- 7:17Speaker 1: studio and cool in other parts of the building. Right
- 7:21Speaker 1: today it is it is tolerable in the studio and
- 7:24Speaker 1: the rest of the building is a song.
- 7:26Speaker 5: But it's not tolerable.
- 7:27Speaker 6: It's just that you're you're you're relating it to walking through.
- 7:31Speaker 5: Whatever whatever it is out there, and you're like, oh,
- 7:33Speaker 5: it's so it's the exact same temperature here.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Yeah, if you need a song of the atrium at
- 7:39Speaker 1: our building will function this one.
- 7:41Speaker 5: Holy cow.
- 7:42Speaker 8: What's weird is like the first floor it's starting to
- 7:44Speaker 8: get cold. When I went down there earlier and I
- 7:46Speaker 8: was like, man, it feels great done here, and then
- 7:48Speaker 8: you come up stairs, you to the fifth floor and
- 7:49Speaker 8: it's like this is nasty.
- 7:51Speaker 6: Is there any way we can just take it down
- 7:52Speaker 6: to the first floor today you know, it's like and
- 7:55Speaker 6: where it's a nice still remote Yeah, yeah, I mean
- 7:59Speaker 6: any I did a show from an igloo one time
- 8:02Speaker 6: of snowstorms, info shit, so it can be done anyway. Yes,
- 8:07Speaker 6: I mean, there's that we we have all kinds of
- 8:09Speaker 6: technology are exposed to we really have to sit here
- 8:12Speaker 6: where it's legitimately eighty eighty five eighty six degrees.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Floor that I'd have to move all of my stuff
- 8:18Speaker 1: to wherever we're going at I then we stay put.
- 8:20Speaker 5: Not worth it?
- 8:21Speaker 6: All right, guys, good morning the Info maniacs. It's Tuesday.
- 8:25Speaker 6: Glad you're here. Sixteen twenty ninety four to five Wtly,
- 8:29Speaker 6: I feel like i'd like am.
- 8:30Speaker 5: I just imagining a breeze kicked on? I'm not telling
- 8:33Speaker 5: you here here in the studio. It's not bad. Okay, Yeah,
- 8:37Speaker 5: I don't know you're doing? Is it? Are? Are we?
- 8:40Speaker 5: Because you're usually colder than we are.
- 8:42Speaker 8: So normally I have a blanket on in here. I'm sweating,
- 8:45Speaker 8: I have my fan on. This is ridiculous. I'm sorry, y'all.
- 8:49Speaker 5: I give Rugby never never spire. I think everyone does.
- 8:54Speaker 6: But yeah, people have different reactions to the Usually usually
- 8:58Speaker 6: you get a little salty, a little chipper.
- 9:03Speaker 5: All right, let's get started. Reasons to celebrate? What have
- 9:06Speaker 5: we got to start us off?
- 9:07Speaker 8: It's United Nations Public Service Day, a day designed by
- 9:10Speaker 8: the U n to celebrate in value and virtue of
- 9:13Speaker 8: public service to the community. It's also Detroit Style Pizza Day.
- 9:18Speaker 8: I love pizza, but I don't know if I'm the
- 9:21Speaker 8: biggest fan of Detroit.
- 9:22Speaker 5: Style is Detroit Style. Yeah.
- 9:25Speaker 8: Basically, it's square cut pizza and has crispy cheesy edges
- 9:29Speaker 8: in reverse layered toppings like cheese first, sauce on top,
- 9:32Speaker 8: which is originally started in the automotive industry, blue steel
- 9:36Speaker 8: pants stuff like that.
- 9:37Speaker 5: So it's a rectangular, deep dish and square cut sort
- 9:41Speaker 5: of thing.
- 9:41Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and everything's flipped on the toppings.
- 9:44Speaker 5: I will tell you that.
- 9:45Speaker 1: I had some great pizza on the trip. We went
- 9:47Speaker 1: to Godfathers.
- 9:49Speaker 5: That's that's a heck of a pizza spot.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Old school right there, man, And it was every bit
- 9:54Speaker 1: as good as I remembered it.
- 9:55Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's wildly good if you can get up
- 9:58Speaker 6: to if you can get around one. I don't think
- 9:59Speaker 6: we have an anything anywhere close.
- 10:01Speaker 5: I saw I saw a sign somewhere south of Dallas.
- 10:05Speaker 5: I saw one of the highway signs that will tell
- 10:07Speaker 5: you what food is at that exit. Yeah, and I
- 10:09Speaker 5: could have sworn I saw Godfathers on that Oh okay.
- 10:13Speaker 8: It's also Hydration Day. It was established in the honor
- 10:16Speaker 8: of the memory of Victor Hawkins, he as a football coach.
- 10:19Speaker 8: The day serves as a critical summer reminder of the
- 10:22Speaker 8: vital importance of staying hydrated.
- 10:24Speaker 6: I feel like everyone's on the hydration train. Yeah, now
- 10:27Speaker 6: like we're all yeah, it didn't used to be, but
- 10:29Speaker 6: we all know today.
- 10:31Speaker 5: You like people my parents' age, never drink water. Yeah,
- 10:35Speaker 5: out day. I have no idea how they exist.
- 10:38Speaker 1: And then you know, when I was an athlete in school,
- 10:40Speaker 1: it was just past the days where you earned your
- 10:43Speaker 1: water breaks, earned your water break, and they gave you
- 10:46Speaker 1: a salt tablet if you were, you know, dehydrated.
- 10:50Speaker 5: Water break. What happens if you didn't earn them, Well,
- 10:52Speaker 5: you just you, I guess. I mean, wow, what a
- 10:56Speaker 5: time to be alive.
- 10:58Speaker 8: We earned water breaks at one point in my high
- 11:01Speaker 8: school rightly, but it wasn't high school. It's more of
- 11:07Speaker 8: like when you were idy bitty. They were like, y'all
- 11:08Speaker 8: need to do this stretching if you want a water break.
- 11:11Speaker 8: I was like, all right, fine, I guess I'll touch
- 11:13Speaker 8: my toes that.
- 11:15Speaker 5: Would have never gotten a glass of water, not once.
- 11:19Speaker 8: All right, it's let it go, toy. And it's not
- 11:21Speaker 8: the song from Frozen.
- 11:22Speaker 5: It's the first thing that popped into my mind.
- 11:24Speaker 8: They created to encourage people to release regrets, grudges, anger
- 11:28Speaker 8: and past heartbreaks to improve mental wellbeing and move forward
- 11:31Speaker 8: with peace.
- 11:32Speaker 5: That's the exact same thing. It's like, that's the thing. Yeah,
- 11:36Speaker 5: let it go, Yeah, I let it go.
- 11:38Speaker 8: The song, though, has been sober played.
- 11:40Speaker 6: I had Oh man, you couldn't play this song and enough,
- 11:43Speaker 6: Yes you can, right, I.
- 11:45Speaker 5: Disagree, Tucker.
- 11:47Speaker 1: You see as the dad of daughters who watched this endlessly.
- 11:53Speaker 5: Yeah, you can hear it enough. Ah, so good? Wait
- 11:58Speaker 5: oh he you're having a moment in here, Tucker, Dina
- 12:02Speaker 5: benzel Man. Girl can go, Girl can go.
- 12:06Speaker 8: It is also Pink Day and Pink Flamingo Day twin
- 12:10Speaker 8: celebrations of color and pop culture. While Pink Day celebrates
- 12:14Speaker 8: the color itself, Flamingo Day honors the iconic creature.
- 12:18Speaker 1: There was there was a thing going around for a
- 12:19Speaker 1: while where people would they called it flocking, where you
- 12:23Speaker 1: would go take a bunch of pink flamingos and put
- 12:26Speaker 1: the ar.
- 12:27Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember that caught on for a sight that
- 12:29Speaker 6: it's not bad, it's a good one.
- 12:31Speaker 8: We got ghosted, if that makes any sense. They'd make
- 12:33Speaker 8: these yere in Halloween time. They'd make ghost cutouts, and
- 12:36Speaker 8: you get ghosted and they put ghosts in your yard.
- 12:38Speaker 8: It's like a school fundraiser, y'all did.
- 12:39Speaker 5: Weird things down there on the coast man.
- 12:42Speaker 8: It was fun, all right. It's also runner selfie Day.
- 12:46Speaker 8: I don't know how people do that if they're actually
- 12:48Speaker 8: running hard, but.
- 12:49Speaker 6: I have seen that, and I've also thought the same thing,
- 12:51Speaker 6: like I feel like it could be going.
- 12:52Speaker 5: A little bit harder if.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Yeah, not a big selfie, not a big selfie guy
- 12:56Speaker 1: number one, not a runner at all.
- 12:58Speaker 8: So it's also typewriter Day and SAT Math Day. I
- 13:04Speaker 8: actually scored the best in the math section of the SAT.
- 13:07Speaker 5: Did you I was dead? Opposite? I was.
- 13:10Speaker 6: I was fantastic on the other side. Trash and math. Yeah,
- 13:13Speaker 6: been trash and math my whole life.
- 13:14Speaker 5: Yeah. Not not gonna.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Change, Not gonna change. I failed remedial counting.
- 13:19Speaker 6: Uh Will Mike says he's got memories of Godfather Pizza
- 13:25Speaker 6: in Culpepper Plaza.
- 13:27Speaker 1: I don't remember it in Culpeper Plaza, remember one of those,
- 13:30Speaker 1: Yes it was. I believe it was where the Mister
- 13:35Speaker 1: Gaddy's and the I Hop at South College and UH University.
- 13:42Speaker 1: I think that's where it was, all right, But I
- 13:45Speaker 1: remember it being fantastic litz.
- 13:47Speaker 8: Well that is all of the days today.
- 13:49Speaker 1: I saw birthdays, birthdays, Melissa Raush's forty six. You know
- 13:53Speaker 1: her best is Bernadette On The Big Bang Theory.
- 13:56Speaker 8: I love that show and parents.
- 13:58Speaker 5: Yeah, everybody loves that show except Scott DeLucia. I hate
- 14:01Speaker 5: that show.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Right, Wait a minute, is that a prerequisite for sitting
- 14:04Speaker 1: in the main mic that you had?
- 14:05Speaker 6: It's cheezy, Yeah, it's well, it is better. There's it's
- 14:11Speaker 6: not even Big Bang Theory. It's the which is Chuck
- 14:14Speaker 6: Lori show.
- 14:15Speaker 5: Right.
- 14:15Speaker 6: Yeah, I have not liked that Big Bang Theory. I
- 14:17Speaker 6: didn't like Two Broke Girls.
- 14:19Speaker 8: I didn't like I didn't like Two Broke Girls either.
- 14:21Speaker 5: Two and a Half Men. I didn't learn Three and
- 14:23Speaker 5: a half Men. Whatever it was. I couldn't stand it.
- 14:26Speaker 5: It's just not mine. It's weird.
- 14:28Speaker 6: And yes, I I'm the only I'm the only person
- 14:31Speaker 6: I know. Mine is Scott now, yeah, the only person
- 14:33Speaker 6: I know that doesn't lose their mind.
- 14:36Speaker 5: It's not that I lose my mind.
- 14:38Speaker 1: I think it's I think that there's a lot of
- 14:40Speaker 1: creative dialogue in that show and a lot of great
- 14:42Speaker 1: use of character. That's just my take on it Ladanian.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Tomlinson is forty seven. Yeah, he did a pretty good
- 14:50Speaker 1: job in the NFL. Joel Edgerton is fifty two. He
- 14:54Speaker 1: was in Dark Matter. Is also in Obi Wan Kenobi.
- 14:58Speaker 1: He was Chris Pratt Seal team.
- 15:00Speaker 5: Leader in Yeah, I was trying to place it there.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Somema Blair's fifty four. She's doctor Kate Wales Wales on
- 15:07Speaker 1: Anger Management. She's also in the hell Boy movies. Martin
- 15:11Speaker 1: Kleba is fifty seven. Jack Sparrow's crew member Marty and
- 15:15Speaker 1: the Pirates of the Caribbean. He's also one of the
- 15:17Speaker 1: seven Dwarfs in the Lily Collins snow White comedy Mirror Mirror.
- 15:22Speaker 5: Kay, she go to Barge's sixty Elda Barge, Oh you
- 15:28Speaker 5: you are not alive.
- 15:29Speaker 1: In the eighties, she go to Barge. Josh Joss Whedon
- 15:34Speaker 1: is sixty two.
- 15:34Speaker 5: Yep.
- 15:35Speaker 1: He known for the Avengers and Agents of Shield. He's
- 15:38Speaker 1: also the creator of Buffy, the vampire slamer Empire Flow.
- 15:42Speaker 8: Now that I loved that show.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Didn't like Buffy, didn't like Ye not my jam so
- 15:49Speaker 1: good like that might be one of the better shows
- 15:52Speaker 1: that came out of the night.
- 15:53Speaker 8: Wait, who did you want her? To end up with.
- 15:56Speaker 6: I mean, I assumed Angel would be the like I
- 16:01Speaker 6: did you not want Angel?
- 16:05Speaker 5: Is that it? Yeah? Is that no?
- 16:07Speaker 8: I'll say yes, No. I liked it. I liked him
- 16:10Speaker 8: and his spin off Week Gone. I wonder a Spike.
- 16:13Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 16:14Speaker 6: Sorry, sorry, sorry, greasy little guy.
- 16:20Speaker 8: He was so funny, though so iconically funny. I laughed
- 16:24Speaker 8: every time he went on the screen. He said the
- 16:26Speaker 8: dumbest thing is on Earth. I was like, you're the
- 16:29Speaker 8: pure comedy on the show, and he's supposed to be
- 16:31Speaker 8: like the bad guy. And then he'd say something out
- 16:33Speaker 8: of pocket. I'm like, how am I supposed to be
- 16:35Speaker 8: scared of you?
- 16:36Speaker 5: Will is just Willi's loss. I have no idea what.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Francis McDormand is sixty nine, two time Academy Award winner
- 16:43Speaker 1: Best Actress in Fargo. Let's see Randy Jackson, So no
- 16:47Speaker 1: for me Dog seventy years old today. The American idol
- 16:50Speaker 1: judge Glenn Damzig is seventy one. Supreme Court Justice Clarence
- 16:55Speaker 1: Thomas seventy eight years old today.
- 16:57Speaker 8: I swear that person I don't have a tarsh was
- 17:00Speaker 8: that their birthday with a couple months ago?
- 17:02Speaker 5: So I guess they're born Clarence.
- 17:04Speaker 8: No, I swear I talked about them before.
- 17:07Speaker 5: Clarence is a maybe. Is there another Clarence? I don't know.
- 17:11Speaker 5: It may have been another Supreme Court justice.
- 17:13Speaker 8: Oh okay, no, it was a Clarence.
- 17:15Speaker 5: But there's only one of those.
- 17:17Speaker 8: I promise you. We celebrated that birthday a couple of
- 17:20Speaker 8: maybe weeks or months ago, because I remember you saying
- 17:22Speaker 8: it and I was like, man, I always I always
- 17:25Speaker 8: looked them up because whenever we look up the Supreme Court,
- 17:28Speaker 8: just I don't know who's in it. So I always
- 17:30Speaker 8: look up the names. That's the only reason why I
- 17:31Speaker 8: remember hearing this name.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Well, it's I guess anything as possible. It's on the
- 17:35Speaker 1: printed page taking.
- 17:36Speaker 5: June twenty third, nineteen forty eight, so that is today.
- 17:40Speaker 5: That's today. Ted Shackelford is eighty.
- 17:43Speaker 1: He was Gary Ewing on the Dallas spinoff Knots Landing
- 17:47Speaker 1: and June Carter Cash was born on this date in nineteen.
- 17:51Speaker 5: Love to see it, remember you can always text its yours.
- 17:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:55Speaker 5: Absolutely would love to see some of your birthdays.
- 17:57Speaker 6: Shout outs whatever nine sevent nine, six nine sixteen, twenty sixteen,
- 18:01Speaker 6: twenty nine four five WTAW Good morning, Heat Dome, Heat dope.
- 18:05Speaker 5: That's what we're going with today.
- 18:07Speaker 6: Nineties for highs, one hundred and six ish for the
- 18:11Speaker 6: heat index. It's going to start a little bit cloudy,
- 18:13Speaker 6: which will probably actually help us out this morning. At
- 18:16Speaker 6: least we will be see sun by the afternoon and
- 18:19Speaker 6: again down to the seventies to night weather. It's brought
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- 18:31Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm will welch. The
- 18:36Speaker 1: first day of public comment on the State Board of
- 18:39Speaker 1: educations proposed mandate to teach Bible studies in public school
- 18:43Speaker 1: classrooms drew nearly five hundred people.
- 18:46Speaker 5: Students deserve historical accuracy, not political indoctrination. Public educations and invite.
- 18:51Speaker 3: Students to explore many perspectives, not require that one perspective
- 18:54Speaker 3: take precedents over the rest.
- 18:55Speaker 6: The Bible is appropriate in this list of literary requirements,
- 18:58Speaker 6: the history is crucial component.
- 19:01Speaker 1: The State Board of Education is slated to take a
- 19:03Speaker 1: final vote this Friday, July ninth, is the first opportunity
- 19:07Speaker 1: for around fifteen hundred employees in College Station ISD to
- 19:10Speaker 1: learn more about their new health insurance provider. That's after
- 19:14Speaker 1: the school board last week changed from Blue Cross Blue
- 19:16Speaker 1: Shield of Texas to Baylor Scott and White. Board members
- 19:20Speaker 1: were told the switch will save employees between eighty seven
- 19:23Speaker 1: and four hundred and fifty five dollars a month, depending
- 19:26Speaker 1: on the plan. Csisd's health insurance consultant, Ross Gunnals of
- 19:30Speaker 1: and Co Insurance said the dollar amount of claims Blue
- 19:33Speaker 1: Cross paid last year was nine percent above the revenue
- 19:36Speaker 1: they received from CSISD employees. The largest number of Blue
- 19:40Speaker 1: Cross claims was related to diabetes, which Gunnell says Scott
- 19:44Speaker 1: and White has an option where there is a zero
- 19:46Speaker 1: dollar copey and.
- 19:47Speaker 2: As we see with diabetes management, when people defer care
- 19:51Speaker 2: don't take their insulin, that condition gets out of control.
- 19:54Speaker 2: And what happens is the claims go up. Therefore, the
- 19:57Speaker 2: district gets a larger premium increase at.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Their Another factor, which Gunnals calls a political football, is
- 20:04Speaker 1: the price of prescription drugs.
- 20:06Speaker 2: Lots of specialty meds out there five ten, fifteen thousand
- 20:10Speaker 2: a month. If you see a commercial on TV at night.
- 20:12Speaker 2: I can guarantee a Google the drug. It's expensive.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Gunnell says as many as one fourth of CSISD employees
- 20:18Speaker 1: will have to switch providers from the Saint Joseph to
- 20:21Speaker 1: the Baylor, Scott and White network. Brian ISD school board
- 20:25Speaker 1: members agreed to go through a different process to replace
- 20:28Speaker 1: mechanical equipment. Deputy Superintendent Brian Merrill's recommendation was unanimously approved
- 20:34Speaker 1: at the last board meeting to pay for replacing air
- 20:36Speaker 1: conditioning chillers with bond money from twenty twenty instead of
- 20:40Speaker 1: last year. Merrill also said to meet the deadline to
- 20:43Speaker 1: spend bond money from six years ago. The purchase will
- 20:46Speaker 1: be done through a cooperative instead of through competitive bids.
- 20:50Speaker 5: Basically what it.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Does at the beginning of the year, we join these
- 20:53Speaker 3: interlocal agreements and they've gone ahead and put forth their
- 20:57Speaker 3: best price for the following services items. The timeliness of
- 21:02Speaker 3: it allows us to get the dollars sped before that
- 21:04Speaker 3: August timeline.
- 21:06Speaker 1: The chiller replacements are taking place at Navarro, Johnson, Houston,
- 21:10Speaker 1: Crockett and Bonham elementaries. The Texas Tribune reports, in the
- 21:14Speaker 1: first five months, a new state office reviewed sixty nine
- 21:17Speaker 1: complaints of banded DEI initiatives and related activities at state
- 21:21Speaker 1: universities and colleges. All but one were closed without being investigated.
- 21:27Speaker 1: State Representative and Aggie Brian Harrison of Waxahachi, who contributed
- 21:31Speaker 1: to the force resignation of former Texas and In President
- 21:34Speaker 1: Mark Welsh, accused his fellow Republicans of ignoring one of
- 21:39Speaker 1: the party's priorities.
- 21:40Speaker 6: That's one of the countless examples of Republican Texas government
- 21:43Speaker 6: doing nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Records obtained by the Texas Tribune did not identify any
- 21:50Speaker 1: universities or colleges. The one complaint that was under investigation
- 21:54Speaker 1: by the Texas on Budsmen as of June eleventh involved
- 21:57Speaker 1: a student who said he was fired as an instructor
- 22:00Speaker 1: after raising concerns that an academic assistance program violated these
- 22:04Speaker 1: state's DEI ban. College Station residents have until July thirteenth
- 22:09Speaker 1: to let the city know what they think of staff
- 22:11Speaker 1: plans to spend three and a half million dollars in
- 22:14Speaker 1: federal Community Development grant money next year. Rainy Whitwell of
- 22:19Speaker 1: the city's Community Development Office told the city council at
- 22:22Speaker 1: their last meeting that the most common recipients are those
- 22:25Speaker 1: meeting income guidelines.
- 22:27Speaker 4: If you're a household of four, you can make up
- 22:29Speaker 4: to seventy seven, eight hundred and fifty dollars and still
- 22:33Speaker 4: qualify to use our programs.
- 22:35Speaker 1: Recipients can also qualify by what Whitwell describes as being
- 22:38Speaker 1: part of a limited clientele that would.
- 22:41Speaker 4: Include abuse children, elderly persons, battered spouses, homeless persons, or
- 22:47Speaker 4: severely disabled adults.
- 22:49Speaker 1: A third option is to live in a neighborhood that
- 22:52Speaker 1: qualifies having enough low and moderate income residents.
- 22:55Speaker 4: Currently, we have about thirty percent of the city that
- 22:58Speaker 4: is classified as low tomorrow income, and in order to
- 23:02Speaker 4: be classified that way, the census track must be at
- 23:05Speaker 4: or above fifty one percent of the area meet and income.
- 23:08Speaker 1: The College Station City Council is scheduled to take final
- 23:12Speaker 1: action on the two hundred and six page draft plan
- 23:14Speaker 1: on July twenty third. A committee appointed at the last
- 23:18Speaker 1: Brass County Commission meeting has more than fifty people. After
- 23:21Speaker 1: the initial reaction from Commissioner Fred Brown that there was
- 23:24Speaker 1: going to be a train wreck, County Judge Dwayne Peters
- 23:28Speaker 1: explained that only nine serve at a time when an.
- 23:31Speaker 5: Elected official appeals their salary.
- 23:33Speaker 7: They will be picked in the order that they were
- 23:36Speaker 7: picked in, and if somebody can't serve, then that's you
- 23:40Speaker 7: just keep on moving down the list.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Peters went on to explain how state law works when
- 23:45Speaker 1: an elected official appeals their salary.
- 23:47Speaker 7: If that committee were to vote nine to zero to
- 23:52Speaker 7: give that elected official a rage, the court doesn't have
- 23:55Speaker 7: any say show about it. They automatically get the raige.
- 23:58Speaker 7: If they vote eight to one, then it comes back
- 24:03Speaker 7: to the court and the court gets to decide whether
- 24:05Speaker 7: we want to give it or not, and if it's
- 24:08Speaker 7: seven or less, it doesn't come back.
- 24:11Speaker 1: The list of committee members was unanimously approved. More News
- 24:16Speaker 1: Ahead at seven o'clock or anytime at WTAW dot com.
- 24:20Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW.
- 24:25Speaker 6: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW or the infom
- 24:28Speaker 6: aniacs in morning weather Hot, hot and more hot today
- 24:32Speaker 6: getting up to high in the mid nineties. Heating deck's
- 24:36Speaker 6: much hotter than that, and then we're going to do
- 24:39Speaker 6: a trip down to the seventies overnight a few clouds
- 24:42Speaker 6: do it all over again.
- 24:43Speaker 5: But Will Will has hope for.
- 24:45Speaker 1: Us look, I looked at some long range forecast models,
- 24:48Speaker 1: and we do have a chance of rain.
- 24:51Speaker 5: I believe it was.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Sunday, Monday, Thursday or Wednesday Thursday of next A chance
- 24:55Speaker 1: of rain, you said, And I told you, let's not
- 24:58Speaker 1: talk about it because you're gonna scare dollar.
- 25:01Speaker 8: We don't want it to rain during the week of
- 25:03Speaker 8: July fourth.
- 25:04Speaker 5: Yes, we do, don't.
- 25:06Speaker 8: You don't want rain during July fourth. It can rain
- 25:09Speaker 8: the next week.
- 25:09Speaker 5: No, I want it gone.
- 25:11Speaker 8: I want to be able to take.
- 25:13Speaker 5: It when you can get it this time.
- 25:15Speaker 9: No.
- 25:15Speaker 8: Sorry, I will disagree with you on this one.
- 25:19Speaker 5: It's okay if you want to be wrong, I'll support you. Weather.
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- 25:32Speaker 6: running properly. Mallet feel the difference and turn it to
- 25:34Speaker 6: our turo, the man in charge of the building, to
- 25:37Speaker 6: figure out the AC. Yeah, I guess he's up here
- 25:40Speaker 6: doing that.
- 25:40Speaker 1: Man.
- 25:40Speaker 5: Yeah, they're doing that right now. Apparently there was some
- 25:42Speaker 5: sort of he's a legends the fire.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Alarms last night, and that's why the doors were shut
- 25:48Speaker 1: and the AC system is automatically shut off whenever that happens.
- 25:52Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yes.
- 25:53Speaker 8: And in the MLB last night, the Texas Rangers and
- 25:55Speaker 8: his Houston Astros hit the field and have all the
- 25:57Speaker 8: game scores coming up in sports.
- 25:59Speaker 5: Who here's vancle cookies. Not me, not you.
- 26:02Speaker 8: I don't mind him, but they're not on my top
- 26:04Speaker 8: five list.
- 26:04Speaker 1: Every time I eat one, I feel like I immediately
- 26:07Speaker 1: need to go.
- 26:07Speaker 5: To the dentist. Is there?
- 26:09Speaker 1: Could that be because they are packed with sugar with
- 26:11Speaker 1: That is exactly why it is.
- 26:13Speaker 6: A Crumble employee is now becoming a folk hero on TikTok.
- 26:18Speaker 6: They stoked the man and started telling people at Crumble
- 26:23Speaker 6: where he works, that perhaps perhaps they should be watching
- 26:29Speaker 6: their shoeing.
- 26:30Speaker 10: I'm a Crumble employee and we've started to have customers
- 26:33Speaker 10: come in every day or multiple times a day for
- 26:36Speaker 10: these new dirty sodas that have one hundred and forty
- 26:38Speaker 10: eight grams of sugar in them.
- 26:40Speaker 5: By the let that let that sink in the dirty soda.
- 26:45Speaker 6: The dirty soda has one hundred and forty We we did,
- 26:49Speaker 6: and no one, No one was as shocked by.
- 26:51Speaker 5: That as we were nobody back up again.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Nobody in my life. Listen, my daughter, who is a
- 26:58Speaker 1: I mean, she's a physical freak. She works out all
- 27:00Speaker 1: the time.
- 27:00Speaker 5: He is about that fitness.
- 27:02Speaker 1: Yeah, And I said, look, sweetheart, this is what this
- 27:05Speaker 1: is doing to you.
- 27:06Speaker 5: She's like, oh, okay, care, I'm that's time.
- 27:08Speaker 10: I said to one of the customers, like, there's one
- 27:10Speaker 10: hundred and forty grams of sugar. And then I got
- 27:11Speaker 10: in trouble because I'm not really supposed to point that out.
- 27:13Speaker 10: And then they were like, well, you know, normally I
- 27:16Speaker 10: drink ten cans of coke a day. It's not the
- 27:19Speaker 10: same thing.
- 27:20Speaker 5: Cans of coke. That's all right. If I drank ten
- 27:24Speaker 5: cans in a year, it's a big year.
- 27:25Speaker 6: I don't want to be judgmental about this because frankly,
- 27:27Speaker 6: it is. It's just I kind of got lucky with this.
- 27:30Speaker 6: It's never been my jam. Like I drink tea, I
- 27:33Speaker 6: drink water, and then I drink sparkling water, and those
- 27:36Speaker 6: are really the only things I kind.
- 27:38Speaker 5: Of care to drink.
- 27:39Speaker 6: Like, I will have a like a diet coke once
- 27:41Speaker 6: in a blue moon, but it's it. What is the
- 27:45Speaker 6: normal amount that people consume in a day. I don't
- 27:50Speaker 6: know as far as as you know, cokes, doctor peppers people,
- 27:55Speaker 6: people pretty fond of their doctor Pepper's around these parts.
- 27:59Speaker 6: And again in in canned quanity, how many do you
- 28:02Speaker 6: go through over the course of a day? Is ten
- 28:05Speaker 6: really that unusual for people?
- 28:08Speaker 5: I would think so.
- 28:09Speaker 6: I mean, if you're going to crumble to get the
- 28:11Speaker 6: dirty soda, I think okay, so got to work your
- 28:13Speaker 6: way up to that.
- 28:14Speaker 5: In grams.
- 28:15Speaker 1: Yeah, for adult men, the American Heart Association recommends thirty
- 28:20Speaker 1: six grams as the limit.
- 28:21Speaker 5: Thirty six grams period period period. Yeah, this is one
- 28:25Speaker 5: hundred and forty.
- 28:26Speaker 10: Eighth And I said, well yeah, And I said, so
- 28:30Speaker 10: you're replacing your coke with the dirty sodas And they're like, no,
- 28:32Speaker 10: I just drink the ten kids of coke and then
- 28:34Speaker 10: I also get the dirty soda. Oh, and they also
- 28:36Speaker 10: usually get a box of six cookies to go with
- 28:38Speaker 10: their drink.
- 28:39Speaker 5: So I ask this question, was he wrong to do this?
- 28:44Speaker 8: No?
- 28:45Speaker 1: Absolutely, he's not wrong, But you have to consider that
- 28:48Speaker 1: this is definitely what I refer to as a CLM,
- 28:51Speaker 1: a career limiting move.
- 28:52Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
- 28:53Speaker 1: Uh, you know, if you are wanting to succeed in
- 28:56Speaker 1: that job. Maybe you should edit your car.
- 28:59Speaker 6: I feel I feel like he is completely in the
- 29:03Speaker 6: wrong on this, and again, you guys can you guys
- 29:06Speaker 6: can weigh in. I would love to hear your thoughts
- 29:08Speaker 6: to nine seven nine six nine five sixteen twenty. You
- 29:12Speaker 6: have a problem with people over consuming sugar, but you're
- 29:18Speaker 6: sure happy to cash that check from Crumble every two weeks,
- 29:22Speaker 6: aren't your friend?
- 29:22Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think that.
- 29:24Speaker 6: If you if you work there, I don't think you
- 29:27Speaker 6: can say peep. And so people are getting after Crumble. Hey,
- 29:32Speaker 6: you can't tell this kid to not They surely can't,
- 29:36Speaker 6: and they should because they're crumbled cookie.
- 29:40Speaker 8: It's a double edged sword though, because in his opinion, well,
- 29:43Speaker 8: I mean that he needed a job obviously, so that's
- 29:46Speaker 8: where he got one. Maybe that is the only place
- 29:50Speaker 8: around the town that he if he had to work
- 29:51Speaker 8: two drugs. We don't know a scenarios. In my opinion,
- 29:55Speaker 8: I don't feel like it. It's no different than us
- 29:56Speaker 8: saying oh my gosh, that's wild on air.
- 29:59Speaker 5: Well I don't, I don't. You see, we're paid to
- 30:01Speaker 5: point out those sort of things. That's our job journalistic independence. Yeah,
- 30:05Speaker 5: we have Yeah, you know, I have worked places where
- 30:08Speaker 5: you don't say things right.
- 30:10Speaker 6: No, but there's I have not worked at a job
- 30:14Speaker 6: where there hasn't been something that they're like, don't talk
- 30:18Speaker 6: about this.
- 30:19Speaker 5: Right, or we don't.
- 30:20Speaker 1: Do you have freedom of speech? You do not have
- 30:22Speaker 1: freedom from concepts like and.
- 30:24Speaker 6: If I thought it was that and again, if I
- 30:25Speaker 6: thought it was that important, then I could say it
- 30:29Speaker 6: and on my way out the door with my stuff
- 30:31Speaker 6: in hand.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Because that's how maybe he is starting a budding career
- 30:36Speaker 1: as a nutritional influencer. And now this is how because
- 30:40Speaker 1: we're talking about it and everybody else is this is
- 30:43Speaker 1: how he gets off the ground. By the way, the
- 30:45Speaker 1: news goat Bill Oliver just texted in said, my sixteen
- 30:49Speaker 1: ounce bottle of mountain dew has sixty five grams of sugar.
- 30:51Speaker 6: You're sixteen ounce bottle of mountain bill. Bill Oliver is
- 30:55Speaker 6: a bill at.
- 30:57Speaker 5: Do you he does the due. There's always a bottle
- 31:00Speaker 5: down there in the news. That's what powers Bill Oliver.
- 31:03Speaker 6: Yeah, and eighteen million awards.
- 31:07Speaker 5: In journals two.
- 31:08Speaker 8: It is awesome.
- 31:09Speaker 5: It's mountain dew. Man. You know, when I was a kid,
- 31:11Speaker 5: I used to drink the mountain do a lot night.
- 31:13Speaker 5: I really yeah, I had.
- 31:15Speaker 1: I had like a ceramic moonshine jug that somebody had
- 31:18Speaker 1: brought me and I would fill it with mountain dew
- 31:20Speaker 1: had carried around the neighborhood boarding guy.
- 31:27Speaker 8: Good morning, I'm Riley Flerky with your morning sports update.
- 31:30Speaker 8: On sixteen, twenty ninety four or five, WTA W Oklahoma
- 31:35Speaker 8: won the twenty twenty six Men's College World Series, steamrolling
- 31:39Speaker 8: through North Carolina in the winner take off Game three,
- 31:43Speaker 8: winning thirteen to do, capturing its first national title and
- 31:47Speaker 8: over thirty years and third overall. The Sooners are the
- 31:50Speaker 8: seventh straight SEC team to win the national championship. Oh
- 31:55Speaker 8: You started out strong, jumping out to a three to
- 31:57Speaker 8: one lead by the end of the third, and never
- 32:00Speaker 8: looked back. They put at least one run across the
- 32:03Speaker 8: plate in four of the final six innings, including three
- 32:06Speaker 8: in the fourth and four in the eighth. The victory
- 32:09Speaker 8: caps off OU's gauntlet like journey to the top. After
- 32:13Speaker 8: finishing eleventh in the SEC regular season play, they knocked
- 32:17Speaker 8: off five national seeds, three in the top five and
- 32:20Speaker 8: two on the road, Leaning on a trio of freshman
- 32:23Speaker 8: arms and historical power surge at the plate, sooner. As
- 32:26Speaker 8: head coach Skip Johnson recapped the game.
- 32:29Speaker 9: We played a really good baseball team. Hats off to
- 32:32Speaker 9: North Carolina. They're really good, well coached. I mean, the
- 32:35Speaker 9: lineup was incredible, the pitchers they ran out there incredible,
- 32:39Speaker 9: and we took the momentum over early and made some
- 32:42Speaker 9: great plays defensively and got some big hits. These guys
- 32:45Speaker 9: were separating balls from strikes, standing in their routines, the
- 32:48Speaker 9: thing we talk about, pitch to pitch and really thankful
- 32:52Speaker 9: for the Sack Committee the NCAA. Of course, when you're
- 32:56Speaker 9: at the College World Series, everything's a class act. I
- 32:58Speaker 9: thought the umpires were incredible all week.
- 33:01Speaker 8: And incredible so in the MLB last night, the Texas
- 33:05Speaker 8: Rangers hit the road to Miami and beat the Marlins
- 33:08Speaker 8: four to three in Game one of the series. The
- 33:11Speaker 8: Houston Astros fell in Game one of their series four
- 33:14Speaker 8: to two against the Toronto Blue Jays. Yesterday, Texas A
- 33:18Speaker 8: and M Lettersmen Association announced that Texas A and M
- 33:22Speaker 8: University Athletic Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty six
- 33:25Speaker 8: will feature eight Aggie Legends. Throughout the next week or two,
- 33:29Speaker 8: we will be honoring each of the individuals being inducted
- 33:32Speaker 8: into the Hall of Fame, which is reserved for individuals
- 33:35Speaker 8: who have gone above and beyond in contributions and support
- 33:39Speaker 8: of the athletic programs at Texas A and M. The
- 33:42Speaker 8: first Aggi to honor on the list is Carrie Auskin.
- 33:45Speaker 8: Carrie was a cornerstone of one of the most successful
- 33:48Speaker 8: eras in Texas A and M softball history, helping lead
- 33:52Speaker 8: the Aggis to back to back national championships in nineteen
- 33:55Speaker 8: eighty two and nineteen eighty three while establishing herself as
- 33:59Speaker 8: one of the premier shortstops in the program. A three
- 34:02Speaker 8: year All Region selection from nineteen eighty one to eighty three,
- 34:06Speaker 8: Carrie anchored the Aggie's infield during a dominant stretch that
- 34:09Speaker 8: included an eighty four wins season in nineteen eighty two,
- 34:13Speaker 8: the winningest campaign in Texas A and M history. Known
- 34:16Speaker 8: for her exceptional defensibility, strong arm, and clutch play, she
- 34:20Speaker 8: became a leader by example and a key contributor to
- 34:24Speaker 8: the teams that elevated Texas A and M into a
- 34:26Speaker 8: national powerhouse. Carrie remains among the program's career leaders for
- 34:31Speaker 8: more than four decades after her playing career concluded she
- 34:34Speaker 8: ranks among Texas A and m's top career performers in
- 34:37Speaker 8: at bats and continues to appear throughout the Aggie record
- 34:41Speaker 8: book in hits, batting average, total bases, doubles, stolen bases,
- 34:45Speaker 8: and runs scored. Her durability and consistency were highlighted by
- 34:49Speaker 8: seven hundred and twenty career at bats, which still ranks
- 34:53Speaker 8: among the best totals in school history. Carrie's legacy is
- 34:57Speaker 8: defined by excellence, toughness, and competitives. Period as a two
- 35:01Speaker 8: time national champion, three time All Regional performer, and one
- 35:05Speaker 8: of the most accomplished defensive players in Texas A and
- 35:07Speaker 8: M softball history, she helped lay the foundation for the
- 35:10Speaker 8: success of Aggie Softball and remains one of the program's
- 35:14Speaker 8: all time greats. That's your morning sports Update on sixteen,
- 35:17Speaker 8: twenty ninety four five WTA W. I'm Riley Flerky.
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