September 16, 2024 • 8 mins
Dana In The Morning Highlights 9/16
Houston Texans take down the Bears and QB CJ Stroud sets new NFL record
Forbes identified Houston Methodist Hospital as best place to work in Texas
Producer Anthony's first car was '91 Honda Accords - what was yours??
Houston Texans take down the Bears and QB CJ Stroud sets new NFL record
Forbes identified Houston Methodist Hospital as best place to work in Texas
Producer Anthony's first car was '91 Honda Accords - what was yours??
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best Variety of the
eighties nineties and Today Dana in the Morning and producer
Anthony and the Three Things You Need to Know to
get your Monday September sixteenth started well. There was a
freeway takeover attempt yesterday on the Hardy Toll Road between
Ritchie and rankin six motorcycles trying to stop traffic there
(00:23):
and a Harris County Sheriff's Office deputy was seriously injured
in that situation. Well, I was stuck behind the road
work crew picking up those barrels earlier this morning on
iten out in Brookshire, had to practice.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Lots of patients.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Not a good way to start your Monday morning anyway,
you're gonna need patients.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
If you're headed to Bush Airport.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yup today through September twenty seventh. Concrete repair work at
will Clayton Parkway. I know Sky Mike was talking about
it this morning. Now the work is going to be
done between four am and seven pm, so expect lanes closed,
which will mean slow moving, long traffic line on the
way to the airport, So definitely check ahead. And the
(01:03):
Texans won the first home game of the season against
the Bears nineteen to thirteen, CJ. Stroud setting an NFL
record for most passing yards by a quarterback in the
first of ten home games. He surpassed the Kansas City
Chiefs Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Let's go yep and the weather. If you love the heat,
you are going to have an amazing week because it's
gonna be hot and sunny this last week of summer.
We're gonna go up to ninety four today. We could
be up to ninety nine by Friday. Plan accordingly, right now,
seventy four in uptown and Europe to day on Sunday,
(01:39):
and tell me something good brought to us by our
friends at Goodwill Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, this is.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Hispanic Heritage Month and many were out to celebrate yesterday
at the Houston Farmers Market. Live music, food, dancing, local
vendors that bring all kinds of items in from Mexico
sharing the culture with Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's at twenty five twenty Airline Boulevard. It was established
in nineteen forty two. This is the oldest and largest
farmers market in Houston and it is open every single
day six am to seven pm.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You can find out the details.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The Houston Farmersmarket dot Com producer Anthony.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Dan this is definitely some good news.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Forbes and a research firm surveyed employees to find the
best in every state, and after surveying almost two hundred
thousand employees, there's a Houston based healthcare provider that's top
the list. It's Houston Methodists. They came in at number
one on the Forbes list of best employers in Texas.
They employed more than thirty two thousand workers. Another one
of our faiths came in tops.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's agb Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, they came in third, employing more than one hundred
and fifty four thousand workers. Our own NASA comes in
at number eight on the list of best employers. Healthcare
provider M d Anderson also makes number eleven. You can
also find Conraid number thirteen and Houston Community College coming
in at number twenty four.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Wow Wright.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Other notable companies making the list Progressive Insurance, IKEA, also Intel.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So feel good being in Texas.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Forbes says, there's a lot of amazing companies to work
for right here in the age.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That is wonderful, and all you college football fans listen up.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Texas is now on top.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
The Longhorns takeover the number one spot in the AP
Top twenty five pole the first time in sixteen years,
replacing Georgia.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's number two.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Texas and Georgia will meet October nineteenth in Austin, and
Ohio State came.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
In number three. OK. Thankings, Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So we always put our tell me Something Good stories
up for you to check out at Sunday ninety nine
dot com. You can also follow us on Facebook, x, Instagram,
and Twitter at Sunday ninety nine. Sunday ninety nine point one,
It's seven twenty one. Dana in the Morning and producer
Anthony we have Houston's Best variety of the eighties, nineties
and today talking memories of our first car, Volkswagen Rabbit.
(03:57):
I loved it so much. I remember driving it with
my grandparents and then they gifted it to me and
I drove it for a couple of years until I
couldn't anymore because I well, it got totaled. I'm not
going to say I totaled it, but anyway, it was
stick shift, it was off white. I loved it. I
love cars, and we're talking about our first car. Memories
(04:18):
because twenty five percent of us say we remember our
first car's license plates.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Insane, which is.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Crazy anyway, for you numbers people, I could totally see it.
We're asking you about your first car memories, and we've
got Roseanne and calling in from Cyprus.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Now, what was your first car?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It was a Toyota Corolla. Okay, I bought it when
I moved to Texas eighteen years ago. I didn't know
how to drive.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh where did you move here? From New York? You
moved from New York?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Or you come to Texas and you realize, oh my gosh,
I've got a drive to get around this place.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Right exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So you move here and you don't know how to drive.
How did you? How did you learn how to drive?
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
The cab drive that brought me from the airport? You
know how New York is? Mine? Go work?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
So I said, hey, I need to learn how to drive.
Can you train me? And he looked at me, he said,
are you serious? I said, yeah, better, that's been a
taxi driver. Do you know anywhere around this place?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
How genius that is?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And that is how I learned to drive.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That is so.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Crazy jes What did you give him your number and
say I'll meet you somewhere.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
No, he came into my subdivision. My subdivision was being
newly built. Yeah, so he would come in and he
would start me driving around in the subdivision and then
he'll kick me out on the Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Did you have family here or did you just like
go for it?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Family, My job moved me out here.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That is amazing that such a great story is asking
the cab driver to teach you how to drive.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Gus, I'm gonna say, who better?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Now?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
How did you find Sonny?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Since I've been taking my granddaughter to SCLAM like the
music here is more good for her. It's better for her,
you know. So I've been listening to you guys for
quite a few months.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now, Brazil, so glad consistently we try to make it
fun for everyone, real positive and definitely great for your grandkids.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yes, and I do enjoy the atmosphere when the vibe
that guts from you guys should have radio.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We love it. You just made our monday.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I'm glad I did well.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You have a great great and you call back anytime.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And we've got Crystal calling in from the Briar Forest
area a pet sitter. Crystal, do you have memories of
your first car that you'd like to share.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Oh? Yeah, my husband at the time made me get
rid of it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
After a while.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
My best friend and I were going to go work
out and there was this ramp that we just came
off of and we're in the parking lot and I
tell my best friend Sharon, I'm like, I have no steering.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
She does not.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I want I have no steering and the steering wall
just went in circles and I'm like, oh, there was.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
This one screw.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
It was in nineteen sixty nine blue Camaro. Oh my,
there was just one screw that would hold it and
it came. Then my husband at the time drove it.
He said I need to drive that. You need to
drive the other and he was going down a parking lot.
He says, you get rid of that. It happened to him.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh my day, Crystal.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
So that's my memory.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It was a good car. That's good to say. But man,
what a sweet ride, Crystal. A blue Camaro.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, it was in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Man, if you had just kept to be worth a
fortune today, get that new screw stick in the steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
If I lived, I was Yeah. Oh man, my story.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well glad that you shared them. Thank you so much
for listening. We truly appreciate your stories.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh. I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You keep me going in the morning. Ah.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Thanks Crystal, Let's go and Crystal, I have a good
one to stick around.
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best Variety of the
eighties nineties and Today Dana in the Morning and producer
Anthony and the Three Things You Need to Know to
get your Monday September sixteenth started well. There was a
freeway takeover attempt yesterday on the Hardy Toll Road between
Ritchie and rankin six motorcycles trying to stop traffic there
(00:23):
and a Harris County Sheriff's Office deputy was seriously injured
in that situation. Well, I was stuck behind the road
work crew picking up those barrels earlier this morning on
iten out in Brookshire, had to practice.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Lots of patients.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Not a good way to start your Monday morning anyway,
you're gonna need patients.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
If you're headed to Bush Airport.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yup today through September twenty seventh. Concrete repair work at
will Clayton Parkway. I know Sky Mike was talking about
it this morning. Now the work is going to be
done between four am and seven pm, so expect lanes closed,
which will mean slow moving, long traffic line on the
way to the airport, So definitely check ahead. And the
(01:03):
Texans won the first home game of the season against
the Bears nineteen to thirteen, CJ. Stroud setting an NFL
record for most passing yards by a quarterback in the
first of ten home games. He surpassed the Kansas City
Chiefs Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Let's go yep and the weather. If you love the heat,
you are going to have an amazing week because it's
gonna be hot and sunny this last week of summer.
We're gonna go up to ninety four today. We could
be up to ninety nine by Friday. Plan accordingly, right now,
seventy four in uptown and Europe to day on Sunday,
(01:39):
and tell me something good brought to us by our
friends at Goodwill Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, this is.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Hispanic Heritage Month and many were out to celebrate yesterday
at the Houston Farmers Market. Live music, food, dancing, local
vendors that bring all kinds of items in from Mexico
sharing the culture with Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's at twenty five twenty Airline Boulevard. It was established
in nineteen forty two. This is the oldest and largest
farmers market in Houston and it is open every single
day six am to seven pm.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You can find out the details.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The Houston Farmersmarket dot Com producer Anthony.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Dan this is definitely some good news.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Forbes and a research firm surveyed employees to find the
best in every state, and after surveying almost two hundred
thousand employees, there's a Houston based healthcare provider that's top
the list. It's Houston Methodists. They came in at number
one on the Forbes list of best employers in Texas.
They employed more than thirty two thousand workers. Another one
of our faiths came in tops.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's agb Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, they came in third, employing more than one hundred
and fifty four thousand workers. Our own NASA comes in
at number eight on the list of best employers. Healthcare
provider M d Anderson also makes number eleven. You can
also find Conraid number thirteen and Houston Community College coming
in at number twenty four.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Wow Wright.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Other notable companies making the list Progressive Insurance, IKEA, also Intel.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So feel good being in Texas.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Forbes says, there's a lot of amazing companies to work
for right here in the age.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That is wonderful, and all you college football fans listen up.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Texas is now on top.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
The Longhorns takeover the number one spot in the AP
Top twenty five pole the first time in sixteen years,
replacing Georgia.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's number two.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Texas and Georgia will meet October nineteenth in Austin, and
Ohio State came.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
In number three. OK. Thankings, Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So we always put our tell me Something Good stories
up for you to check out at Sunday ninety nine
dot com. You can also follow us on Facebook, x, Instagram,
and Twitter at Sunday ninety nine. Sunday ninety nine point one,
It's seven twenty one. Dana in the Morning and producer
Anthony we have Houston's Best variety of the eighties, nineties
and today talking memories of our first car, Volkswagen Rabbit.
(03:57):
I loved it so much. I remember driving it with
my grandparents and then they gifted it to me and
I drove it for a couple of years until I
couldn't anymore because I well, it got totaled. I'm not
going to say I totaled it, but anyway, it was
stick shift, it was off white. I loved it. I
love cars, and we're talking about our first car. Memories
(04:18):
because twenty five percent of us say we remember our
first car's license plates.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Insane, which is.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Crazy anyway, for you numbers people, I could totally see it.
We're asking you about your first car memories, and we've
got Roseanne and calling in from Cyprus.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Now, what was your first car?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It was a Toyota Corolla. Okay, I bought it when
I moved to Texas eighteen years ago. I didn't know
how to drive.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh where did you move here? From New York? You
moved from New York?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Or you come to Texas and you realize, oh my gosh,
I've got a drive to get around this place.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Right exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So you move here and you don't know how to drive.
How did you? How did you learn how to drive?
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
The cab drive that brought me from the airport? You
know how New York is? Mine? Go work?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
So I said, hey, I need to learn how to drive.
Can you train me? And he looked at me, he said,
are you serious? I said, yeah, better, that's been a
taxi driver. Do you know anywhere around this place?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
How genius that is?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And that is how I learned to drive.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That is so.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Crazy jes What did you give him your number and
say I'll meet you somewhere.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
No, he came into my subdivision. My subdivision was being
newly built. Yeah, so he would come in and he
would start me driving around in the subdivision and then
he'll kick me out on the Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Did you have family here or did you just like
go for it?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Family, My job moved me out here.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That is amazing that such a great story is asking
the cab driver to teach you how to drive.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Gus, I'm gonna say, who better?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Now?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
How did you find Sonny?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Since I've been taking my granddaughter to SCLAM like the
music here is more good for her. It's better for her,
you know. So I've been listening to you guys for
quite a few months.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now, Brazil, so glad consistently we try to make it
fun for everyone, real positive and definitely great for your grandkids.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yes, and I do enjoy the atmosphere when the vibe
that guts from you guys should have radio.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We love it. You just made our monday.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I'm glad I did well.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You have a great great and you call back anytime.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And we've got Crystal calling in from the Briar Forest
area a pet sitter. Crystal, do you have memories of
your first car that you'd like to share.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Oh? Yeah, my husband at the time made me get
rid of it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
After a while.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
My best friend and I were going to go work
out and there was this ramp that we just came
off of and we're in the parking lot and I
tell my best friend Sharon, I'm like, I have no steering.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
She does not.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I want I have no steering and the steering wall
just went in circles and I'm like, oh, there was.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
This one screw.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
It was in nineteen sixty nine blue Camaro. Oh my,
there was just one screw that would hold it and
it came. Then my husband at the time drove it.
He said I need to drive that. You need to
drive the other and he was going down a parking lot.
He says, you get rid of that. It happened to him.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh my day, Crystal.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
So that's my memory.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It was a good car. That's good to say. But man,
what a sweet ride, Crystal. A blue Camaro.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, it was in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Man, if you had just kept to be worth a
fortune today, get that new screw stick in the steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
If I lived, I was Yeah. Oh man, my story.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well glad that you shared them. Thank you so much
for listening. We truly appreciate your stories.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh. I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You keep me going in the morning. Ah.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Thanks Crystal, Let's go and Crystal, I have a good
one to stick around.
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