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November 26, 2024 7 mins
Dana In The Morning Highlights 11/26

Houston comes in as the #40 Best City in the WORLD list
You have lots of options for holiday lighs around town
Almost 30% traveling to see family decide to stay in hotel instead
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sunday ninety nine, twenty one, Houston's holiday music station Dan
in the Morning and producer Anthony and the three Things
you Need to Know to get your Tuesday November twenty
third started Well, the list is out the fifty world's
best cities and guess what Houston comes in at number forty.
They looked at loveability, liveability, and prosperity. Last year we

(00:23):
were number sixty six. Year before we were number forty two.
Remember this year we're number forty. Dallas comes in at
fifty five, Austin at forty three. Top three on the list, London,
New York and Paris. Well Today tomorrow Sunday the busiest
travel days for the Thanksgiving holiday. At the airports, you're
being encouraged to arrive early. Remember reserve your parking before

(00:48):
you leave home, and believe it or not, TSA says
it's not unusual to come across travelers who end up
at the wrong airport. Oh now that's a Thanksgiving night.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, really, check your ticket. It's check it twice.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
And the Lone Star Showdown is going to happen this
week in Texas. Taken on Texas A and M The
Games at Kyle Field we'll be able to watch it
six thirty Saturday night kickoff on ABC thirteen. If you
go to Vivid Seats, you'll see that tickets start at
just under six hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Then you've got to get parking. Oh that could be
in the hundreds of dollars, so easily.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Thank you, ABC thirteen. Glad we can watch it in
the comforts of our home. Weather today beautiful, sunny, cool seventy,
tomorrow hot eighty five, and then another cool front moves
through on your Thanksgiving Thursday. Love, Hi's in the low sixties.
Right now it's fifty eight and uptown and you're up
to date. I'm sunny. Tell me something good brought to

(01:45):
us by our friends at Goodwill Houston, always looking for
gift ideas, and I think you're gonna love this, you
in particular producer Anthony, who's a candle lover burning desires.
Now you walk in, it looks and smells like a
candy store, but Tracy Best says it is so much more.
It's in copper field and it smells delicious. You want

(02:08):
to almost bite into the wax, and then you realize, Wow,
this isn't candy.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
This is wax.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
She's got all kinds of sense. She's got pie filling,
Christmas sense, sugar, cookie, fruit, teak wood, all handmade by Tracy.
Her recipes she's been working on for thirty years. She
makes fifteen pound batches at a time and will not
make any more until this batch is gone. Her mom

(02:34):
and Grandmam were also candle makers. Oh cool burning desires
hand ord candles and she just loves doing them. She
loves her customers, she loves feedback, she loves Christmas. And
you can find her at sixteen o four to oh
West Road. She's open weekdays ten to seven, Saturdays ten

(02:54):
to five. You can also go to her web hand
dash ord wax Melt Houston dot Com producer Anthony Dane
no shortage of Christmas lights to enjoy around Houston.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Maybe you've got company coming to town, looking to take
the family out, or trying to spruce up date night.
There's tons to check out. There's the City Lights Downtown
Holiday Magic, back for its thirty year, includes eleven unique
themed villages dozens of instaworthy spots. Of course, there's Zoo
Lights featuring life sized animal lanterns and enchanted forest colorful
holiday light Tunnel and even Santa's Workshop. You've also got

(03:26):
the Mayor's Holiday Spectacular over in Herman Square. Sugar Land
also going to have their own holiday lights. Magical winter
lights can be found over in Rosenberg. Then there's also
the light park that you can find in Katie and Spring.
This is just some the main takeaway here. You've got
a sleigh full literally of holiday lights to check out
around town.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I love that. I love that. This is so sad,
but it does have the happy ending.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
So the Jordan family they make a decision, quit their
jobs and they're going to start their dream family business
with a truck, an eighteen wheeler, and it's going to
be a trucking company. But then their semi truck is
stolen from a trucking center. I mean, this is your business.
It happened earlier this month. The Jordan family devastated. They

(04:11):
saw the surveillance yep and showed a man getting into
the truck and then driving away in the stolen truck.
They did set up a go fundme, which is really good.
It was to buy a new truck. Four thousand dollars
raised so far. But then they got absolutely incredible news.
They got word that a donor had gifted the family.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
A brand new eighteen way to.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Start their business, so now they can continue on their
business and vention. This is that so great, So congratulations
the Jordan family and to your angel, you know who
you are.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
What an really credible deed you did.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Hey, we always have our tell Me Something store, Tell
Me Something Good stories up at Sunday ninety nine dot com.
You can also follow us on Facebook, x, Instagram, and
TikTok at Sunny ninety nine Piece Sunday ninety nine point one.
We are Houston's holiday music station where Santa's favorite, We're
Rudolph's favorite, and Anthony, we were talking about thirty percent
of us, we learned are just gonna stay to a hotel.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
As they go to visit family. Yes, Thanksgiving, and it
does It keeps it much easier.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
You can get a super cheap hotel and then you
spend most of your time at your family's.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
House and then just go sleep at the hotel. Yeah,
well you can do. You'll do break get to breathe exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
And we've got Christina asking about your Thanksgiving, calling in
from spring working at a pipe yard. Now you're doing
Thanksgiving in Houston. Is it going to be at your
home or a family member's house.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Well, we're gonna have to do it on Saturday because
my mom works.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh one of those.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, Well, then what will you be doing on Thanksgiving
Day itself?

Speaker 2 (05:48):
What will you be doing?

Speaker 4 (05:49):
My husband and my kids are going to put up
our decorations.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
That's hey, that's.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Perfect, really good. Yeah, I love that. And will you
cook the turkey on Thursday? Are you going to wait
for mom on Saturday?

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Wait for my mom and my sister?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
And how many sisters do you have?

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Sisters?

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
My busyte Okay, who's in charge of?

Speaker 4 (06:08):
What?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I mean? I'm sure you all have a role to play,
a big role.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
My mom always does the home. She does a turkey,
My own older sister always does a turkey as well,
and my third sister does a turkey.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
So is this you're you're bringing different turkeys or are
you all working on the same turkey?

Speaker 4 (06:26):
No different turkeys?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh? Lord, multiple family? Yeah. And then the side dishes,
is that what you're in charge of?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yes, me and the rest of my sisters side dishes
during roles.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Literally everything else?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
What are what are the top do you have a
special unique side dish?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
For your family.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Christina, just the typical mac and cheese?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
What is you?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
What's the side dish that you're the best at the
mac and cheese?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's my daughter too, that is her thing. It's so good.
So how many people are going to be gathering on Saturday?

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Oh wow about Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
It's a christy good group, something so fun to look
forward to. Thank you for sharing and we wish you
guys a very happy Thanksgiving and we hope you listen
to the Christmas music all day long.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
We'll be here for you.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Thank you so much
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