CenterPoint is proposing higher rates to cover costs from recent weather events
Goodwill Houston offers a FREE program for Apartment Maintenance Professionals
Be honest - do YOU throw away the intructions?? Or do you actually read them?
Episode Transcript
Sunday ninety nine point one Data in the Morning and
producer Anthony and we have got the three things that
you need to know to get your Wednesday, July thirty
first started well.
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Go USA.
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Our women's gymnastics team wins the gold, beating Italy's second
place team by five and a half points.
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Here's what it sounded like.
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But this lord about the team to the USA twos
team finals of the Olympic.
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Ins So Himan.
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Simone Biles, Sunny Lee, Jordan Chiles, and Jade Carrey winning
the They just dominated.
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They win the gold.
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There's a great picture of them tasting or biting their
gold medal.
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It is tradition.
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And remember iHeart the iHeartRadio app.
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We are the exclusive audio home of the twenty twenty
four paras Olympics.
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So it's very exciting. Don't like this?
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Centerpoint customers in for some bad news. Center Point is
p posing that customers bail them out with some high
rates over the next fifteen years. Yeah, they're saying that
the Durracho and the hurricane cost them an estimated one
point eight billion dollars and if the public approves it,
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Center Point could have customers foot part of the bill
over fifteen years and mosquitoes are out in force all
over Fort Bend County. Now there's already spraying trucks that
have been deployed. Now spraying planes will be out sunset
tomorrow over Fairchild, Siena, Fresno, Paarland and Orchard. So be
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aware of that weather today, got that hair and dust
keeping things a little hazy. It's overall going to be
a sunny, hot summertime day for our last day of July.
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I'm going to go up to ninety five.
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It's up to eighty one now in Uptown, and you're
up to date on Sunday ninety nine point one, and
tell me something good brought to us by our friends
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It was struggling, it shut down, but now this Katie
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Society is throwing them a lifeline.
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I love this.
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They're gonna begin selling their pies at their restaurants. The
collaboration came together when Proud Pie owner Scott Chapman was
looking for jobs for his employees. Well the owner of
Dish Society CEO Trent Patterson responded by offering Chapman a
kitchen to make Proud Pie products to.
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Sell at the restaurants.
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And so now they are going to be selling pies,
State Fair Caramel Apple, Purehouse Key line, and many other
products will be coming. So we'll keep you posted on that.
Isn't that such great news? That's awesome producer Anthony Dain.
Another reason to love our Goodwill Houston. There's another program
they offer to help those in need with barriers to
employment is the Apartment Maintenance Professionals and it offers an
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introduction for new maintenance professionals and a refresher for participants
and equip them with the knowledge and tools to start
a career in the maintenance industry.
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Goodwill Houston offers the AMP program free of charge to
everybody in the AAP program is accredited by the American
National Standards Institute, a private, nonprofit organization that oversees the
US voluntary standardization and Conformity Assessment system, focusing on credentialing
and connecting industry participants. Goodwill Houston always striving to provide
the community with job readiness training to improve lives while
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meeting today's and tomorrow's workforce needs. So maybe if you
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Maintenance Professionals program.
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Wow, and this is going to be so fun.
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Extreme Makeover Home edition looking for Houston area volunteers to
help build a new home.
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The home is going to be in the Mason Woods community.
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They need Anthony two thousand volunteers who around the clock
build over seven days. The episode is going to start
filming August seventeenth through the twenty third. You can go
to Extreme Makeover Home addition to their website EMH dot
tv to fill out a registration form to volunteer. You've
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got to be eighteen.
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That's really cool though, really so fun.
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Yeah. Now we always have our tell Me Something Good
stories for you to check out at Sunday ninety nine
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and Instagram. Sunny ninety nine Houston Sunday ninety nine point one,
Houston's best variety of the eighties, nineties, and Today Data
in the Morning and producer Anthony. We've got a hazy
sunny day to day because that's the heir and dust
is back and causing poor air quality, but it's keeping
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the hurricanes at bay. We're gonna go up to ninety
five on your last day of July. Right now, it's
eighty in uptown. I was just thinking, Anthony, Yes, what
if we followed instructions? Do you think the world would
be a better place? We learned earlier this morning.
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Well for in a lot of ways.
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Yet four percent of us throw away instructions. We never
use them because we have the hubris thinking. We know, yes,
and what does my husband always learn? He shouldn't have
thrown the instructions away, but he still hasn't figured it out. Right,
I have figured it out yet, because he's too prideful
gonna say that's what we're talking about. I I embroidered
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this instruction, and I remember I would like memorize it.
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That's crazy, even instructions.
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Yep. I was years old and I knew I just
keep the instructions.
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I follow them.
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And we're asking you about instructions. Now we have got
to stay at home. Mom, four little ones calling in
from Cyprus. Valerie, You've got twin nineteen months old, an
eight year old, a fourteen year old? Do you, mom,
follow instructions?
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Not one hundred percent?
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Like sometimes sometimes it's like I don't know if I like,
I've been here before, so it's like I can do
this already. So that makes sense.
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There are so many kid things that you've got to
put together, so you don't really.
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Follow the instructions.
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What about your husband, he's a veinance for the school district.
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Uh oh okay, so a lot of it.
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Is by instructions, so he has to kind of be
by the book than that.
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That's what you two met, because opposite's a tract, right.
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Oh, yeah, we are very opposite.
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That is your little Valerie. How did you know that
he was the one?
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I just me and him, like the night and day.
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I can tell you.
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Like his listening skills, the way that he would listen.
I was like, oh my gosh, you're so and I
go and my listening skills are on the other end.
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They balance each other out. I love that.
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And now you've got three beautiful kids. And how are
you guys spending the last days of your summer?
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Right now? We're trying to my son he's in baseball,
so we've been doing summer baseball and trying to just
we have pizza nights on Fridays. Every Friday, we have
pizza night with the Yeah, trying to keep that in
our family just so we have that so time.
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That so good, Valerie, And I misspoke you have actually
four kids because you've got the nineteen month old twins. Well,
I'm glad that you let Sunday ninety nine point one
be a part of your day. I hear the kids
in the background, and I hope they enjoy listening to
us too, Yes, sir, thank you, all right, Valerie, take
care love, have a great day you too.
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Thank you.
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Thanks Valerie. Let's head over off to ninety and speak
with Jill.
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Now, you say you just got into electrical distribution.
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What are you trying to be better than Center Point
or what?
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Dan? No, no, no, no electrical supply.
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So think of all like new construction or replacements.
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Right, okay, all right, we have to ask you now,
since you are selling this stuff and it's probably really complicated,
do you follow instructions?
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Yes, but honestly, instructions aren't always easy, especially if you
buy from Ikia. Thank you, thank you.
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It's like Google and look up a video. Watch someone
do it? Right? Because I'm a visual earner.
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Yes, same, that is some wisdom right there, Jilled.
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Good wisdom.
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Well, listen, I am glad that you're taking us along
on your second day of work and enjoy it.
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I'm glad you found your your calling.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Thank you,
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