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July 29, 2024 • 6 mins
Dana In The Morning Highlights 7/29

CenterPoint CEO speaking before Senate committee regarding storm response
Alice Bing cheering on her granddaughter Kelsey in women's field hockey
What is your go-to add-on for your morning coffee?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sunny ninety nine point one Houston's best variety of the
eighties nineties, and Today with Dana in the Morning and
producer Anthony in the Three Things You Need to Know
to get your Monday, July twenty ninth started. We're going
to be hearing a lot about Centerpoint. First off, the
CEO has sent out a letter to customers, Jason Wells,
apologizing for the company's response to Hurricane Beryl, saying that

(00:23):
they made no excuses. They will get better. He outlined
his plans for the future. Now he is going to
be speaking before a Senate committee today in Austin, and
it's going to be regarding Centerpoint's response to the hurricane. Meanwhile,
Mattress Mac has teamed up with Grizzy. She's actually Griselda
from the new site a Grizzy Hood News. Anthony checks

(00:46):
this out. You absolutely love it. Are two of them
sitting on one of Mattress Mac's leather sofas and they
want management at Center Point to resign.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh yeah, listen to Mac.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
We're calling on the executives at Center Point to resign now,
just like the head of the Secret Service, step down
as you're failing to protect the ex President. These layers
must take responsibility for their failure to protect us.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
The petition at change dot org now it needs five
thousand signatures. As of yesterday morning, twenty five hundred have
signed it. Your weather today looking nice, but it's gonna
start heating up when the rain gets out of here
and we have just a slight chance of showers. We're
gonna go up to ninety two today right now, seventy
eight in uptown. And you're up to date from Sunday

(01:33):
ninety nine point one. And tell me something good brought
to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. Well, she
was the first medal winner at the twenty twenty four
Paris Olympics, and she shouted out, what's up aged town?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know who it was, Cassidy Cook from the Woodlands.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
She wins a silver medal on Saturday and the women's
synchronized three meter springboard diving. It's her first medal and
like I said, this was the first medal, first of
many medals that was won by the US.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
And don't forget that. iHeartRadio.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
We are the exclusive audio home for the twenty twenty
four Paris Olympics. Enjoy on your computer your phone. Just
download the iHeartRadio app if you haven't already.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's totally free.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
iHeartRadio dot Com producer Anthony Dan.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
This is pretty cute. There's a local athlete out in
Paris for her first Olympic Games. Has a very special
fan right here in Houston who's going to be cheering
her on. It's Alice Being, ninety four years old. She's
the proud grandmother of Kelsey Being. Kelsey was born and
raised right here in the age, played field hockey for
Saint John's School. She went off to graduate from Stanford
study mechanical engineering. Now is the women's build hockey goalkeeper

(02:44):
for Team USA. Her grandma, Alice has been cheering her
on since she was just three years old. Went to
a lot of her games when she was grown up.
Alice is Kelsey fought hard to get here. Kelsey and
the US women's national team qualified for the Paris Olympics
in India earlier this year, finishing second place at the qualifiers,
with Kelsey being goalkeeper of the tournament. Now, the US
women's field hockey team has their first game tomorrow against

(03:06):
Argentina at twelve forty five pm. Houston time. Don't forget,
as we've been saying, you can catch all the action.
The iHeartRadio is the exclusive audio home for the twenty
twenty four Paris Olympics.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
And you're gonna love this. Puppy Sphear is coming to Houston. Yep,
it's yoga with puppies. Now, we don't know the location yet,
but we know that Puppy Spear is going to open
sometime in mid August. It focuses on yoga classes where
humans practice alongside tiny dogs and you benefit and soda
the puppies. The company says the goal is to get

(03:40):
the puppies more confidence in having human interactions so they
can grow into happy adult dogs. Classes are ninety or
excuse me, seventy dollars each. Apparently you also are served
bottomless mimosas.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh wow, just saying uh huh yeah, And so you
can definitely check it out.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's called Puppy Sphere, coming to town in mid August,
and are tell me something good Stories are always up
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nightety nine point one Houston's Best Variety of.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
The eighties, nineties and today.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Dana in the Morning and producer Anthony's talking about colors,
Phil Collins and colors. That's what my world becomes more
colorful when I drink coffee, not too much, it's got
to be just right. I've tried taking off drinking coffee
and it just isn't the same.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
So I'm a coffee drinker.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
And we talked about coffee this morning because it was
the topic of our nearly impossible question. We've learned that
forty percent of people put alcohol in their coffee.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
A little pick me up of sorts.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
We posted that question up on Facebook at Sunday ninety
nine Houston and yes, there was Bailey's and alcohol.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
And what did someone else put in their call?

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, shout out to Catherine who puts xanax.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
What does she mush up the pill? I get a
capsule and she just stops it in her coffee.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
One way to kick off the day, right.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
We're asking you coffee is such a big part of
our lives, especially on a Monday. Really, we've got Alisa
calling in, So what's it for you?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Alisa?

Speaker 4 (05:14):
I'm gonna make you laugh.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm highly allergic to coffee.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh how allergic took? How could God have done that? Alisa?

Speaker 4 (05:22):
I don't know. I wish I could do it.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh my, So what's the deal. What happens when you
do drink coffee?

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (05:29):
I need like an epikid.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh it's that nearly allergic like that?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
So how did you find that out?

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I mean, did this happen when you were like a
young adult or what it happened?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, I'm in thirteen and I had my first cup
of coffee. Uh huh and I got violent, Lisa?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh my, lo no, so then what did mom take
you to the doctors? And he was like, no coffee
for Alisa.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
No, it was just me figuring it out.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Man, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Just so, are you like, do you drink soda in
the morning? What's your morning beverage?

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Then lately it's a golden Eagle tie y latte.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
That's sounds amazing. Right, we still have tea?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, I can still have tea.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's excellent.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well I am sorry, And so here we are just
bragging about our coffee habits and poor Lisa can't even
drink it.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
No.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I wish, I wish.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
I want my family would go get Starbucks yeah, and
I'd be like, oh, I want one so bad, and
I would try and I would try and it would
never work.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Oh geez, that's just well, you know, God had something
bigger for you, I guess, is all I can say. Yeah, yeah,
that's amazing. Well, thank you for sharing, Alisa. So glad
you guys listened to Sonny. We appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Thank you so much. Thanks for making my baby
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