City of Houston addresses lack of trash pickup, Astros outfielder helps with baby reveal, Some of us have already eaten Halloween candy

Dana In The Morning Highlights 9/30

Houston cites old trucks, lack of drivers as culprits - says relief is coming in October
Astros outfielder Taylor Trammell helped assist with a baby gender reveal for some superfans
If you bought Halloween candy early - there's a good chance you've eaten it already

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best Variety of the
eighties nineties and today I'm Dana with producer Anthony and
the three Things you need to Know to get your Tuesday,
September thirtieth started, well, we get our partners, our kids
to excuse me, put out the trash.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
But then the city is leaving it out there. They
haven't been picking it up.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Solid Waste is saying it's trucks are old, they're breaking down.
They have new ones, but they need new drivers. They
say relief will happen in October and November. Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well another whow.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is going to transform this neighborhood, Rosenberg Listen up.
The Fort Bend Epicenter set to expand with a two
hundred and thirty five million dollars new event area, a hotel,
a convention, a retail space. It's going to happen in phases.
Parking spaces will come first. And we are entering the

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drought and zone. Yes, this dry weather that we've been
experiencing no end in sight, so we've got a fire
risk has been this week. We've got the weather is
going to heat up tomorrow the first day of October.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
The ozone levels are high. We actually have an air
quality alert today as well.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
So today we go up to ninety two, but your
first day of October up to ninety four and again
dry humidities. Back these cooler mornings that we had out
of here. Yep, it's seventy three now in Uptown and
Europe to day, I'm sunny. Tell me something good brought
to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. We'll ask
those picture. Lance mccullors changing lives through his restaurant. It

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started out as a coffee shop, then a mentorship, now
a path for youth who are feeling disconnected to get
the job of their dreams.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Lance shares his Cuban culture.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
He says he grew up with coffee, playing dominoes, so
he opened Rex Hospitality and Maven. Now his coffee is
at Sawyer Yards and restaurants all around and once a
month they do a membership meal. This latest with p X.
It's a nonprofit for disconnected youth. Teens actually can get
jobs from this program. So p X is his latest nonprofit.

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So Lance, thanks for doing that for our community. Really,
that really is amazing. Producer Anthony Dane, This is really sweet.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
We have a couple that are super Astros fans, Hector
Azoa and Claudia Villa Reale. They've been Astros fans for life.
In fact, Hector took a baseball bat to reveal that
they were having a girl for their firstborn. We'll enter
their next pregnancy and this go around, they wanted to
include the Astro so at the end of the Stros
sweep of the Rangers at Dyke and Park a few
weeks back, the couple caught outfielder Taylor Trammell's attention with

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a sign that read, take a swing at our gender reveal.
There's a video that shows the couple counting down and
then Taylor takes a swing smashes the ball, which explodes blue,
revealing the couple second child will indeed be a boy.
It's so cool, a special way for the Stros to
be involved in the reveal, and Hector and Claudia say
their future family of four will be there on Stro's
opening day twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know, there's Astros baseball, then there's Banana Ball baseball,
and Trey Jones plays with this amazing team. The Jersey
Village native actually plays for the Texas Tailgators in the
Banana Ball League, and he graduated from Jersey Village High School,
went to Texas A and m Corpus Christy then you
of h but still no conventional baseball until the Savannah Bananas.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
And it was actually his guitar skills that got him
the job.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
He sent in a video of him playing Tennessee whiskey
on his guitar.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, it turns out the Tailgators have a band and
he plays guitar. I love how he's doing his dream
job playing guitar and playing baseball. And they had their
final game at Dykin Park this past weekend. So Trey Jones,
so cool, so exciting. Congratulations and for our feel good stories.
Each weekday mornings set a preset on the new and

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Speaker 2 (03:52):
Point one Monday, naty nine point one. It is seven
to ten. Now I'm Dana with producer Anthony.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So I'm looking at a report by instag Card and
it's checking out. You know, for all of you who
we learned at our nearly impossible question, you buy the
Halloween candy in September, maybe it's on sale.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Problem is it's done.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
You've eaten it all before Halloween's even before we've even
gotten into October.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
So what are you buying?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, according to instacart, once again, the number one most
favorite Halloween candy Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, followed by Peanut Eminem's,
then regular Eminem's round out the top three, kit Kat
number four, Snickers rounding out the top five, then Anthony
Your Sour Patch Kids, Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Milky Way, Twigs,

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and Harribo gold Bears.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's the gold Beers, Yeah, the gold Beers one.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, So chocolate dominates once again, and candy corn polarizing nature.
They remain a significant wild card, love in some parts
of the country, disliked in others, making it a fascinated
part of the Halloween tradition.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
I love them.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
They're very candy corn.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Cardboardy, kind of what's the word like candle, like wax
with a little bit of flax.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean, none of that's all the colors. There's
just yes, they're very appropriate for the season. But there
there's just better candies out there. That's That's where I've
always landed behind.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, you're you're the gummies, you're the gold Bears, the
gummy person man.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
And hairbo has all sorts of Like the gold Bears
are just like the traditional, like go to standard. They've
got so many iterations. Now there's like the watermelon one,
there's like the cherry ones, but just the standard.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Gold Bears are where it's at.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
When you take the first bite of a gold Bear,
your mouth it just lights up, like it just the
saliva starts because it's such a great flavor.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, you know when you get a fresh bag of
those bears, Man, they're so good, the best.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, what's your relationship with Halloween candy as an adult?
I mean, kids are gonna eat it, But as an adult,
have we grown out of it? Are we still just
as obsessed with it as we are when we were kids.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Gold Bears are year rounding.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
I can eat those whenever, but we'll we'll sometimes, like
Jesse'll stock up on stuff. I'm totally fine having it
in the house, Like, but if it's if it's the
gold Bears, like that's the risky stuff, so we don't
buy extra that.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's so funny.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I started out when we'd put the candy in the
refrigerator because I liked it cold. Yeah, Then I started
putting it in the freezer, thinking, oh, it'll slow me
down from eating it. Then I took me and brought
it out to the garage freezer. Oh, out of sight,
out of my where it was, right of course. Well,
I finally just had to get it the heck out

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of the house.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
But you knew.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
I knew what I was gonna do, So it's like,
why put myself through that?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I've finally gotten through it, and I just I know
my weaknesses and Halloween.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Candy is definitely one on one of them. Yeah, what
about you? Seven one three, two one two five ninety
nine one Sunny naty nine twenty one on Dana with
producer Anthony.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
We've got Houston's best variety of the eighties, nineties and today,
and we've been talking about our nearly impossible question. Found
that for those of us who bought candy for Halloween
in September, we're done with it.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
What was the percent? Whoops?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Us?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Okay too, and that's.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
The ones that admitted we knew, Yeah, we knew what
we were going to do. Anyway, we're asking you about,
as an adult, your relationship with Halloween candy?

Speaker 2 (07:20):
All right?

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Are you over it? Are you still obsessed with it?
Is it a big part of your life? Coming up
this time of year? And we have got Lindsey calling
in from Katie. Now you're a nurse, Lindsay, but put
that aside. Be honest with us. What is your relationship
with Halloween candy?

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I love the Halloween candy and I couldnot even buy
it until right before Halloween or I'll slid at all.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
See those happens exactly. She knows those.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
So do you buy the candy that you like, the
candy that's on sale, or the candy that you think
the kids will like?

Speaker 4 (07:52):
I'm try about candy that I think the kids will like.
Lots of chocolate, of.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Course, Yeah, what are you what are you getting this year?

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Like?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Big bags of what types of candy?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Couple? Do some kit Kats and some hershees? Maybe some
non chocolate options as well.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
She's got it down. I love that. Do you have
a lot of kids who come to your house for Halloween?

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Not too many, but quite a few, I guess.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, that's excellent.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
And do you dress up at all? Like, do you
partake in the festivities or are you just there? Kind
of being Lindsay handing out candy.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
I do not dress up. I just hand out the
candy and accompany my kids.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh that's good. And how many kids do you have,
Lindsay too?

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Do you have their costumes picked or do they have
their costumes picked out? They do?

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Actually, my daughter's going to be something from K pop,
Demon Hunters and those much not.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Actually, that's awesome, so cool.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Save some candy for the kids. Enjoy your Halloween indulgence.
And we're so glad you listened to Sonny Lindsay. We
appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Thank you so much. Fellows and every day