The Infomaniacs: March 30, 2026 (8:00am)

March 30, 2026·45 min·3 clips

College Station City Council awards a $28 million water well contract, but Councilman Bob Yancey asks if it prevents a future merger.

1. WTAW's Infomaniacs morning show for March 30, 2026 opens with local news before moving into feature segments on bar culture, food history, and health. 2. Hosts Will and Riley co-anchor; Scott is referenced as a third host; the show is explicitly Monday morning for the Bryan-College Station area. 3. The episode's format is a loose morning show mixing local government news, crime reports, national curiosities, and listener call-ins. 4. College Station City Council unanimously awarded a nearly $28 million contract to drill three new water wells, with Councilman Bob Yancey also gaining support to discuss a future merger of regional water providers. 5. A Brazos County grand jury indicted 23-year-old Jamie Serna for the capital murder of two men at Bryan's Henderson Park in August 2021; Serna is already serving 10-year prison sentences from Robertson County. 6. The Texas A&M System Board of Regents added $19 million to the budget for a new Meat Science and Technology Center, now a $133 million facility under construction along Finfeather Road after an initial plan for the RELLIS campus was reversed. 7. A federal trial opens in Austin over lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons; formerly incarcerated Marcie Murray Simmons describes inmates sleeping on puddles of water on concrete floors and clogging toilets with sheets to stay cool despite Texas having a $32.7 billion surplus in 2023. 8. The Texas House had budgeted $545 million for prison cooling while the Senate budgeted nothing; advocates say heat-related deaths have occurred in Texas prisons. 9. An analysis of 120,000 bar menus from February 2025 to February 2026 found Jameson Irish Whiskey is the most commonly listed shot, appearing on 13% of shot menus at an average price of $8.50, followed by Fireball at $6.50. 10. A man at George Bush International Airport went viral after distributing free shots of vodka from a large bottle to strangers in the TSA line, knowing he could not take the bottle through the security checkpoint. 11. A 12-ton shipment of Kit Kats (33 pallets, valued at nearly $55,000) was stolen from an Austrian factory when a driver using fake license plates and forged documents loaded the chocolate and drove away without delivering it to Belgium. 12. Host connects the Kit Kat theft to a broader trend of rising freight theft and notes that pre-Easter black market chocolate demand makes stolen confectionery easy to sell. 13. Kit Kat comes in over 200 flavors internationally, including soy sauce, matcha, blood orange, lemon vinegar, yuzu, banana, red bean soup, and muscat in Japan. 14. Riley shares initial research on microplastics from kitchen sponges, citing a study showing the most shedding occurs in the first 100 scrubs, with conventional sponges at roughly 60% plastic releasing far more particles than organic versions. 15. Microplastic particles inhaled during normal sponge use accumulate in the body, causing toxicity over time and carrying cancer risk according to current research. 16. On this date in 1867, Alaska was purchased from Russia for approximately $7 million — roughly 2 cents per acre — under Secretary of State William Seward, an acquisition widely mocked as 'Seward's Folly' at the time. 17. The Brahms Requiem will be performed on May 3rd at Texas A&M by a combined group of 150 singers from A&M United Methodist Church and the Brazos Valley Chorale, with a full orchestra, as described by choir directors Michael Vaughn and Tom Gerber. 18. The show's tone throughout is casual and locally anchored, with listener call-ins including Wendell and his 11-year-old granddaughter Fiona, who delivers the episode's joke about a 'meow-dium rare' steak. 19. Local Bryan-College Station listeners interested in community news, Texas history, food culture, and light science discussion will find the morning-show format engaging. 20. Listeners outside the Brazos Valley or seeking deep investigative journalism will find the local civic and community focus too narrow.

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College Station politics and strange morning banter share an easy, lived-in pace.

The segment moves cleanly from College Station politics into the odd, lived-in chatter that follows, and that contrast gives it shape. The nearly $28 million water-well contract and the question about merger talks stay easy to track, helped by the plainspoken back-and-forth at…

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