4.1 - New Year, New Season, New Logo, New Topics

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Welcome to season four. I don't even know why they call themselves that. Season four! We're not talking about it, it's not appropriate. Are you going to sing

a coffee talk, well you're the one that keeps going down that road. This could be edited out. Does it ever get edited out? It needs to be.

Season four of Coffee Talk. I can't believe we've made it this long. I yeah. Sort of, hanging on by a thread. I mean today at least. I'm gonna need you to get some pep.

Do you want some of what's in my cup? No it's the same as what's in my cup just no sugar. I know, it's the sugar that makes it good. I'll just take a sip. It's warm. I put mine on ice. Ew you nasty. So

how excited are you for season four? I'm not. I am super excited. Well so am I considering it was

my idea. Okay it was your idea and then you wanted to like deviate from the idea and I was like whoa

reel it in buster. Well you weren't having any success so I was like you know. No we just expanded so we're highlighting

event venues. Wow. I was going to say, I was trying to decide between venue and facility.

Vendors? What? We could just call it vendors. A venue's a vendor. I'm dropping stuff. Yeah but is it

like what's the difference between a facility and a venue? I don't know a facility can do lots

of other things, a venue is specific. A venue is just the building? You know I got my CVP and I

couldn't tell you. Oh, well glad that was a waste of money. It was not, I passed. Uh-huh. But they

didn't even teach you what the difference was? So facility basically encompasses everything so

like an academic, an academic building can be considered a facility. Anything that's a

building technically is a facility. A venue is something that caters to events. If you want me

to get more specific I can read the definition really quick here on my tablet. I will google it.

That's my blanket understanding. Well this season we're going to be highlighting- venues. Venues

not just on campus, originally it started on campus

but we won't talk about my email ordeal or people's lack of answering. So we've expanded it

Which is really sad considering we're in the service industry and people still have a hard time answering things. I mean after three emails I'm not gonna email you anymore.

They're probably hoping after the first one you'd quit. Well they could respond and be like no thanks.

Yeah. So we expanded it to within the community. Got lots of more feedback, lots of more feedback.

Words, these fancy things. So that'll be exciting because we're going to be doing on-site. Some yes, for some

of them. On site tours. Yes. Tours. Which is exciting yeah. Yeah we still have to figure out that

that hurdle. I don't know what you're talking about. Mm-hmm your microphone situation. Did you ever find them?

No but they've got to be somewhere right? At the store still? No. Go buy some more. No I bought some.

I know but if you can't find that you're gonna go buy some more. I have some of them I just I've looked at a few places in my office and I was like well. Pieces, a few pieces in my office? Places? Words. So and I was

like well maybe it's at home in the office and I was like maybe it's at home in the office.

Yeah I've seen that office although it's fairly organized considering. Very organized, it just has

a lot of stuff in it. Yes it does. So yeah as I said I'm excited, she's not as excited. No I

am excited. I'm excited because we don't ever talk about venues really I usually harp on catering and

other things but yes it would be nice to know. Catering linen. It would be nice to know other

options that people have in town especially now that there are several more that continue to pop up and lots of places that have done renovations and things like that so. We're not sticking

just to the College Station area correct? We're doing BCS as a whole, trying to. Bryan College

Station? Yeah. Yes. Okay well I'm just making specifics. That's the community. That's the community, they're sisters. Sort of. Sister cities. Yeah yeah so. So anyways yes so I am excited and

no offense to anyone we will not be going to the traditional ones, we will not be visiting the Expo.

Is it is it the expo or is it the center? Oh my god. I don't even know. Neither one we're not doing either one. It's the expo. The Brazos Center is behind Target. Yes. Yeah make sure I quote that right.

Do we need to hashtag it too? We can tag them. Anyways if any of you follow us on social media you'll understand the struggle.

It is always forever real. But we did have an event that I was super excited about.

Yes we did, we hosted our own, let me get this right, catering and vendor showcase. First ever

successful catering and vendor showcase. And hopeful to do it again. Yeah, yeah I saw somebody put it on my

calendar already and I was like ooh. Yeah in August. That's coming up soon. Better start working on it.

Yes. Yeah we got a lot- some- mostly good feedback. Mostly? Well okay I will say all feedback is good feedback

because I can learn and grow. Speaking of feedback I've got to email that lady.

Oh oh good I don't have to. No. Okay. I thought about it this morning and then I forgot till just now.

Yeah. No it'll be fine I'm actually curious to get a bit more information.

So like I said all feedback is good feedback, however it helps when it's constructive.

So while we didn't have- okay but in her defense we're not very nice to MPI.

Oh is that where she was from? No but we- But we're at least slightly constructive like

Why are you hosting 15 webinars in a week that all cover the same thing there's no point to that.

We're having cables run around everywhere and then you ask about it. Ridiculous. Yeah. Oh we did our own AV well let me tell you what I keep in my purse.

Duct tape, because even if you don't have gaff tape you can still make the cables look pretty. Oh my god. So every event planner that i know has an emergency bag and carries things like

that with them. So to have a- I'm getting off I'm getting off on a- But all I'm saying is

the feedback while it may not seem very constructive it's not like we necessarily always give constructive feedback to MPI so I mean- I mean I try to- well so do I but it's not like we're nice

about it. I mean you're not. Uh excuse me I've heard your stuff. I'm nice about it I'm just blunt. I

feel like that was a blunt statement and it was you know I mean understandable but at the same time you know just education on what actually was supposed to transpire. So some of the feedback was

very constructive and obviously- we have a few to respond to. Taking into account some

of the volunteers for the event didn't show up so we had to shift things slightly, signage was not

on my brain and it should have been. Because I mean this whole COVID season is all about the signage

so when we went from guided tours to self-guided tours I should have put out a sign. You right.

You right. You right. Yeah well I walked around and tried to catch people as they walked

in spaces. Yeah. And bug them. I talked to a few people. I was proud of you. I did I socialized.

It's easier when there's food involved. There was no food involved. No I just mean like having food

available is easier to socialize because then you're in a mindset of like a reception where you have to socialize. Oh yeah no I don't that doesn't go in. No? That's usually like a

sign for me to find a corner to hang out and people watch. All of the corners were occupied.

So while we had several new vendors, full service, dessert,

we are looking to expand that. We started out small this time, we had a few vendors cancel, I

would say last minute but not really. So we had to shift things again a little bit.

I feel like overall response was good, I would definitely love to grow it

Well and I would assume so now that you've actually had the first one and they do a lot

of word of mouth between the vendors themselves, so I'm sure in the future that will help.

I think maybe timing I thought that was a really good time to do it but maybe

closer into the semester like maybe in February instead of January.

Why? Like beginning of February? Yes because most people are still on vacation,

some professors don't come back until school starts, and then I mean you know obviously this won't always apply but COVID, who knows how many people were really willing

to get out. So but I think August will be a good time especially right before school starts or

the week after school starts which when like new student orientation and things like that are over

will be good. I think you have a golden opportunity to add a lot more. Golden. Golden yeah I heard a lot

of good feedback from lots of people about a lot of vendors they didn't even know about.

And that's the thing, they're vendors that maybe you're not necessarily going to use them at your event but they're good ideas to have if you're doing anything in your office.

Yes. You know like we had Urban- yeah go ahead. Urban Rubbish um and they do

gift baskets, snack baskets, like college like study exam baskets. I was looking at their

website because they gave me a coupon. They gave everybody a coupon it was in their grab bag.

And so they do potted plants, you know hanging plants with the little macramé stuff I mean they

do floral arrangements, large, small, everything. And they're they've been in town a long time but

I had never heard of them. Yeah I like it it's very rustic. Yeah so I was- She was really nice

too. Yeah and I was looking at these snack bags or snack baskets, thinking like that would be perfect

you know something special, new student orientation week maybe you don't have a lot of student workers or interns and you want to get them something special for graduation, awesome. Or student employee

week appreciation student employee appreciation. Oh yeah that's what it's called. Yeah yeah. That's where my mind was going. Yeah I assumed as much I was trying to get it right.

It's NSO, so in my mind. Yeah. Yeah. National Student Employee Week or something.

Yeah cool. So anyways there were lots of options and then you know I'm going to say it wrong

the French bakery. Le Macaron? They do you know the little individual servings. And apparently waffles. Yeah waffles, croissants.

So I didn't realize they were doing waffles and then- Yeah she asked me she was like can we bring, can I go back and grab my toaster because I have waffles I was like yes I

dropped you power because you asked. So she did. Well we were sitting there talking to Dr. Ashley after he brought his class over. That was quite funny because he was not supposed

to be eating sweets but he definitely took a bite of a waffle and then went and got his own.

Well we won't talk about him trying the bread pudding from Gumbeaux. I doubt that his wife watches

this so I'm sure he's fine. She might, this will be the one. This would be the one yeah.

So yeah their bread pudding was good and I'm not a huge fan of bread pudding but that was really good. Neither am I but how do you go wrong with amaretto chocolate bread pudding? Yeah.

They did not. They did not go wrong with it. I still want more of that risotto. Oh yeah from

the Hilton? They have we had some great options like I said I would love to grow it some more.

I feel like this this our jumping off point and we had some good hey think about

this next time you know like somebody for nice sandwiches that's not just

Jason's Deli. Well I wasn't gonna say it. Well I mean those are sandwich places most people are used to getting boxed lunches from them. Yeah you know so like an artisan deli.

Who would you call in this town? Zeitman's. What is that? Zeitman's? Is that how you say it?

I thought those were real estate or insurance people. No that's Zekeman's. There we go.

Oh um it's the- I've only lived here like twelve years. Deli grocer that just opened in downtown Bryan so like

I don't know if they do boxed sandwiches or things like that but like they make their own um like

corned beef in house so only on certain days they do like corned beef sandwiches and things like

that. I need to find out where that is. Their own like bread they make all of it in-house. They're not a chain? No.

You're gonna have to link that somehow because I have no idea how you just pronounced that because I wouldn't know how to spell it. It's z-i-e-t-m-a-n.

I believe. I mean I'm sure. We're friends on Facebook. We're friends on Facebook.

We're acquaintances on Facebook we liked each other. Okay so yeah so there's

you know we did get some good feedback. I'm excited to start looking again I mean even places that

have been around a while like Potbelly's on Northgate, I've never eaten there. Ever? Ever.

So yeah see everybody's making a face, well not Michael. But um it's not bad. It's really they reached out and wanted to be a part of our next showcase

so I don't know what they do as pertaining to catering but I'm gonna find out. It's

probably a lot like all the rest of them. I don't know. Yeah I want to do more Italian

so I can carb load on one day and then just forget I carb loaded the next day. Do you want me to just bring you lunches every other day? You could. I can't believe you told me about your

pumpkin lasagna and didn't even bring any. I brought the oatmeal bars. Yeah yeah yeah. Yes it was really

good, Cameron liked it. I can bring some, I have some left over. It's fine let your child have it. I

wouldn't let Jeff eat any. No like I made a ton like a nine by nine pan full. Yeah. I'll bring some

So catering vendor showcase went really well, lots of very nice people that you worked with. Yeah

vendors were great. Vendors were great, I'm looking forward to the next one. So speaking of vendors and the catering showcase so let's talk about the options that they

displayed for COVID. What? I was playing that song in my head. What song? We're not gonna talk about it.

So the different displays they had yeah obviously you had the traditional

buffet style setup that was self-serve. Right. A lot of them did have attendants to serve it.

I don't feel like it would work at an actual event because like the decorations and things they had. Sure right. But then you also had your COVID options were pre-boxed. Right. Or pre-packaged,

individually packaged however you want to refer to it. Do you have any favorites? Yes. Okay

well let's go. The Hilton had these little bamboo cones. Oh that had the charcuterie cup things?

Yes they were so cute and I've seen them on like Instagram and Pinterest and stuff but I've

never actually seen them done and I really like that, I thought that was stinking cute.

It was because it almost kind of looked like a bouquet. Yes yes and then they had tiny little

elevated plastic salads on little square plates that were probably like two inch by

two inch you didn't see them? I must have missed that one, I was just in risotto land.

Well they had a fennel arugula salad on it. I must have missed it. You did, you did it was right

under their chocolate or right above their chocolate cake. I definitely missed it. And

I mean I thought that was cute. I did recommend they have tiny forks next time for the tiny plate but

she said she knew. Yeah. But it just it wasn't you know not that it wasn't feasible

but there was also other things that you were eating with the forks like the risotto so to have a tiny fork it didn't. That probably would have slowed me down on the risotto though.

Yeah I feel like you would have started eating it with your hands. Probably, or just using the sandwich to scoop it. Yeah. So the little to go container thing they had which looked like it,

Oh the Chinese takeout box. Okay so I'm glad you said it not me. I was going that direction

because so Tanner and I were watching a movie a couple nights ago and one of the things he mentions he was like every time I crave Chinese food I just get so excited because it you know I

want it to come in those Chinese take out boxes and they don't. Most of them use the giant you

know Styrofoam now and a lot of places only use it for the rice but if you're getting like

yeah so everything else they put in either the round ones or the actual to go things so I was really excited to see that and I was telling him about it and I was like see some people do

you just have, maybe you have to just ask for it maybe you can request it like a special request you know instead of a dietary restriction that's how I want it to be given to me but anyway,

I liked their little containers, I like that it held a lot what was it a pint? It was a lot. Yeah

Go ahead you're just dying. No I was gonna say did you know that those

little Chinese box containers you get from the restaurants you can undo the sides and it actually turns into a plate? For some reason I feel like I knew that. Okay go ahead. But then I'm just

thinking the rice everywhere and children. It's sticky rice, it stays shaped until you push it out. Sure,

sure yeah. I just learned the other day about how to undo the plastic on the Gatorade bottles.

You don't know that? When they come in the like 6-pack and 12-pack whatever the little plastic thing there's a tab that you pull and it actually separates all of it.

Yeah. Yeah I didn't know that I just learned that like two days ago yeah that's how you make them like sea turtle safe because you do that and then you. Yeah I mean I just cut them because I

pull from the bottom yeah I didn't realize it had a tab that you pulled in- anyway. Okay getting off topic. So yes I liked a lot of the options they had for COVID, especially since we're still, we're not

requiring it but we're highly recommending that people still yeah do the COVID stuff.

I really liked the little I guess what to me was a bamboo box with the clear top for the salad that

Chartwells had. I really liked that a lot and a lot of them had some really good options of

containers, displays, stuff like that. A lot of them are definitely trying to do more stuff.

So that is something that is you know necessity for when you're planning your events within the

venue. There's a lot of people that are still doing it and have a lot of great options so self-serve

individual packaging whatever the case may be. And they're pretty. They are pretty. They're not just

tacky styrofoam boxes or containers so yes agreed. So speaking of COVID, anything else we need

to discuss COVID wise before you- Things that we can offer in the facility. Yes. For if you are still

following COVID options, I don't know how to phrase it. You're COVID conscious. COVID conscious.

Cuh-Cuh as Paxton says. It's a "K" mom. No buddy, it's not. Anyway.

So. So we still have hand sanitizers stations stations the little stand-up things that you stick

your hand under and you get the hand sanitizer that smells amazing. But do you? Even when the button's

pushed all the way down does it really work? Yes you just have to make sure that it's on.

So basically it's the user error. Yes. Okay. 100% user error. So we still have those.

If you attended the catering showcase, we had them around the facility. We are still, we still

have our signs up encouraging people to wear masks, regardless of vaccination status.

What else? We can still accommodate social distancing in your room layouts. Yes

and we are still accommodating as we've already discussed with the catering basically we're

just willing to do whatever is necessary to make everybody feel comfortable when doing the events

in the venue. Within reason. Well yes yes. I'm not tackling anybody and being like where's your mask.

We're not doing that. Well we can't anyway it's university state property, we can't enforce it. Well I mean I'm also not going to tackle anybody so. I don't know. Not during workouts

I was gonna say I feel like one day maybe. So yeah we're still willing, oh both of our auditoriums now

have the zoom capabilities so we can live stream without a videographer. Correct.

Yeah so that's fun. Sorry. Yeah but if you want a forecast, a forecast to the summer we are

going to be getting new chairs and carpeting in the auditorium so we will not be available

during that time. But we're excited. Are we still accommodating banquet spaces? Yes. Just not the

auditoriums. Correct. Maybe we'll get pewter colored carpet. Dude I want to punch you right now

Pewter colored carpet. Just kidding. Mm-hmm, you know Dr. Ashley ruined all of that for me.

I immediately said it without knowing anything anybody said. I could have punched you too. That's

fine. Anyway, yes so speaking of auditoriums being remodeled and you can still use the

banquet space. TJ has so kindly booked us- a lot? until we yes don't get to sleep or have a life.

So that's awesome. You don't have to be here for all of the events. No that's true I just have to put them in the system and it's stressing me out. I can also put them in the system. You can, you could,

you have enough going on. I got it, it's good, we're cool. But I am excited because this is the busiest

even pre-COVID. I think this is the busiest that we've been in quite some time. It's your sparkling

personality that attracts people to come here. I'm so glad that you and I are on the same page today.

You're never on my level. That's why I got my glitter cup, sparkly. Hashtag girlboss. Yeah

anyway. You totally looked like Paxton when you just did that.

Yeah well I can't deny either one of them they are my children. Wow. Yeah so I'm excited though because you have been able to

accommodate a ton of people that we haven't really been able to accommodate and also the people that have requested use of the venue since the catering and vendor showcase we've had quite

a few requests since then. Is there any new event on the horizon that you're excited about?

Yeah and I'm kind of glad it's not my event at this point. But- so I can attend it

so I can attend it. But you could still attend assuming I know which one you're talking about, but you could still attend even if you were running it.

Yeah but then like my mind would be in other places and I wouldn't actually be paying attention. Gotcha. You know? Mm-hmm. Like it's Michael's event. Yes it is. And we can put a plug out

there since they've already sent it out. It's the Women Spies- conference. Conference.

Scowcroft Institute and Ready Room? No. No Ready Room is just helping support as far as

needing staffing. I couldn't remember what the flyer said. Yeah it's with professor

Weary. Catherine Weary. Sorry I had a brain fart. Sorry Professor Weary. I promise. But I'm super I

was super excited when Julia first booked it and I was like oh yes this is going to be awesome

and then it's just kind of grown from that. Yes and I- I am so excited.

I think like this is on level of the pandemic one that like the first big conference that I did

for Scowcroft. Oh yeah. Yeah where uh Leslie and Lauren let me wear a train conductor's hat

and sit in the front row. You are correct I apologize it is the Ready Room. It's with Scowcroft Institute, the Intelligence Studies Program, and the Ready Room and it is

called Women in Intelligence Inspiring the Next Generation. So March 23rd and 24th. So far,

I'm sure Michael has been super thrilled that I've stepped in to help a little bit. Oh yeah.

But we almost had them convinced that it was necessary to do three days.

I mean next year it might be necessary to do three days. Well Professor Weary was

definitely on board she got reigned in a little bit, but she's very very excited from what I

can tell. Well it's an exciting topic. It is. The speakers that they're bringing in are like

supposed to be super awesome. I don't know I'm not like it's still not my field. I have no idea.

Michael was panicking. Why? There's no reason to panic this is an easy. Yes so I don't

know who they're having speak but apparently they're super awesome. Yeah super hush hush. He was panicking about the three day part. Oh. That would have been easy. It's during the day

it's not like you're by yourself although we could all call in sick and let's see how it goes but.,

I don't I don't wanna. Yeah I don't either I'm actually very very interested in this one and at some point they're doing breakouts with the speakers from individual sessions which is

where if you wanna talk from an event standpoint we had to get creative on how we were going to be able to do all this and flip it for what they want to do later in a very- y'all got it- minimal

amount of time. Yeah so I mean the next phase is being able to talk to catering to talk about

how quickly they need to move, like my child this morning when I tell him to find another gear and he clearly doesn't know what that means so. It's because kids these days don't know how to drive

a standard even if you've told them a million times he's never had to put it into practice.

Yeah so I'm going to not say what I actually told my child because otherwise Michael has to

work very hard at bleeping my potty mouth out so when I had to explain to him what it was he was

just looked at me. I could have smacked him. Yeah so anyway it is the women in intelligence inspiring

the next generation again it's March 23rd to 24th. I am very excited, it's a lot of fun. We

yes a lot of clients that we deal with are excited about their events but I don't think I've worked with a client in a long time who's been so outwardly excited about what she's doing

so kudos to her and everyone planning. I know the dean's involved I don't know how much the

dean's involved but you know they want to do it here and we're going to make it work and

maybe as soon as we hear back from your professor we can figure out what we can all make work.

So but I'm excited about that one. I think you know there's the norm that I'm

always excited about, the stuff that we do with the college quite often, you know all of the graduation type festivities, their medal of excellence and things like that, luncheons.

I'm excited to have events back in full swing. Yeah. Yes. So our regulars you know that we

have all the time like I'm excited for the Patent Awards to come back because we haven't been able to do it.

I saw her at the vendor catering showcase and I didn't recognize her at first and it took me a minute and she walked right over and hugged me and I was like totally ignoring the fact of COVID but whatever.

So yeah so- I love Diane. I'm excited to get all of those like back in full swing. Yes and that

event is fun too. It's fun. Yeah that that I will say as much as I complain about working with

committees, I will always work with that committee. They're hilarious, they're absolutely fun

and they poke fun at each other which is even more fun. Because you're used to that. Yes. Yeah

so I'm I'm excited for those back, I'm excited to be able to get the Bush Ambassadors back helping

you know with the different events and things that are going on. I'm just you know people, I'm excited for

people. Agreed and it still kind of blew my mind when we were talking to Dr. Ashley's class at that showcase when I- the second years. I didn't even realize I just didn't even put

two and two together that they were second years and had never been to an event in our building yet.

Which is I don't know for me I guess sometimes I think COVID happened 10 years ago.

It kind of feels like it. Yeah so I'm like oh yeah you guys weren't here for anything Yeah. Yeah. But they should come to all of the events now. But they've been in our building

for class. Yeah that's not as much fun. No it's not. Yeah so I am excited to have all them back,

see their faces, do a lot more stuff, do some more creative stuff, so that's part of the reason I feel

like I stepped in to help Michael I like doing those kinds of events because then I get to pass the buck off on day of and I'm like go have fun. Oh. Yeah just I do the hard part. Is it really the hard

part for you though? No no it's the super easy part for me, it's fun for me it's like visualizing in my head

what a workshop looks like and then going into the space after you all set it and it still sucks.

I mean listen I tell everybody that I literally tell everybody, everybody that I've ever trained

I'm like listen we're gonna do this the best that we can and we are absolutely going to put effort into this so don't let it get you down when Sarah walks in here and she's like

this is wrong. I said don't even let it affect you, don't let it ruin your day.

Don't let it think like you can't ever do it, you're just gonna have to live with it

My favorite was when Ruth Ann set for my event a week ago and I walked in there and I was like yeah you can't use the lines on the carpet. She was like what do you mean? I was like they're not

straight really they're not and I was like come stand over here do you see how it goes like this.

It's like you can't use the lines on the carpet I tell everybody you can use it as a general guideline but just know it's not going to be exact. Yeah well this was PDR and she was

creating the hollow square and I was like how do you not see that the hollow square is like what is it a rhombus? No I pull out my geometry it was not right. Well whoever installed the

carpet. It's not the installer's fault it is the people who made the carpet because it

was to a custom size and so when they sewed it yeah anyway long story short that was eons ago

and enough fights with that one so. But anywho yes it is very fun to watch you guys suffer.

I put it out there. That's nice. Yes it is nice. Yes so we get to all suffer together this semester.

Yeah. Yeah I think you even have you even assigned yourself a couple of events. I did and apparently there's one that's waiting that I keep forgetting about. It's waiting? It's waiting

in the unassigned. Oh yes. I have to go assign it. What did you think I meant? Like you had assigned

yourself an event and like they were just waiting like it's gonna happen. Yeah maybe.

Yeah. Yes the Ecological Integration Symposium. Sure bro whatever you say. April 7th and 8th.

Parents weekend. Ooh that's a tough one. The week of parents weekend. Oh yeah

who else has events that weekend? Anyway so- poultry science.

Did they confirm? Yes they did. All right. Yes. They even reconfirmed their confirmation. Yes

I remember when we did their very first one they were a lot of fun. I know my dad

apparently went to high school in Dickinson with one of the poultry science professors

I'm gonna need you to stop talking to walls. What? You and your knowing everyone. You just

talk to a wall. Basically. Wall talks back. Yeah I don't know his last name I only know his first name.

Okay then fun story. I met him in another life Yeah all 20 lives. Different careers different career different career yeah. Okay so

so next episode I have no idea what we're doing, are we doing a venue visit next time? Next episode

is supposed to be a venue visit. Woohoo, we will not give anything away in case it cancels.

Don't ask us who because we probably don't know. I was going to look at the calendar and then I was like never mind. Nope, venue visits so we will be

highlighting several places in the community. BCS not just College Station or just A&M. So

I'm looking forward to it. Can we go to Washington on the Brazos?

Yeah don't they do an event out there like around- all the time. Yeah I was trying to remember if

it was them or if it was a place in Brenham that did that music festival at some point. Maybe it's just a- oh Chilifest is happening. I am so not going to Chilifest. No me either but I mean I was just

you said music festival that's the only one I thought of. It's not Chilifest I think there's

one in Brenham if I remember correctly but no. Navasota? Birthday Bash that's right because there was

like a high-profile country singer and I was like oh that'd be fun then I was like well he's old so I don't really. All the good ones are old I know it's a little twangy for me.

All right so next episode we're on site visiting somewhere, mysterious. TJ's gonna sing for us. Yes

if you ever see either one of us in public feel free to say hi. Yes please do. Don't stalk.

And don't be upset if I don't remember your name. Like if we've never met you before and you're just a viewer out on the internet. Yeah probably have never met you. Yeah well I also in general

I'm terrible with names so like I don't even I'm not even no I'm not gonna say it out loud okay. I'm trying to remember his name but we just hired a new student and I can't remember.

I want to call him James and I know that's not right. That's not, that's not right. Jimmy. Jimmy.

Jimmy yeah I still haven't met Jimmy. Are you kidding me? I'm not kidding you, I still haven't met Jimmy.

He didn't tell you hi this morning? No he said hi to Steven, who was in my office um

I at this point it's more fun to see how long it takes.

I cannot. Isn't your job as a supervisor to make sure they're well informed of what's happening? They are. Or who is who?

He's seen your picture, that's our director. Which color hair was it? He's seen your office, I was like this is her office.

This basically tells you everything about her, she's like me but older and crazier and blonde.

I mean I might agree with like one of those because I can't help it like just numerically that's how it works. Blonde? You are currently blonde. That is true currently yeah

currently. Okay so instead of torturing our fans. Silver fox.

Silver fox? I thought you only referred to men like that? Why not women? Because I don't want to be a fox. Why not? I don't want to be any animal, I'm a human, I'm an it. What and what kind of

humans are animals. Let's not. Mammals? Yes. Yeah, let's stop, that's done. Bye. Bye.

4.1 - New Year, New Season, New Logo, New Topics

Tracy "TJ" Hefti

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