Houston's Make Music Day coming up, Houston area kids in National Spelling Bee, Demi Lovato stops by Buccees

Make Music Day will celebrate FIFA and Father's Day in June
3 area kids are in the semi-finals today - with the winner being crowned tomorrow
Demi followed a list of artists who make a tradition of hitting up Buccees before performing

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sunday Night nine, twenty one, Houston's Festival of the eighties
nineties and Today I'm Dana with producer Anthony and the
Three Things You Need to Know to get your Wednesday,
May twenty seven started. It was a runoff landslide, Ken
Paxton beating US Senator John Cornyn for his seat in
the general election. Paxton will be up against James Tallerico
in November. Christian Manafee b to Al Green in the

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Democratic runoff for the Texas eighteenth Congressional district. And yesterday
in Fort ben County, technical issues disrupted voting for a
couple of hours.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Happened around two thirty yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
It was nothing to do with didn't affect election security
or voting accuracy.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It was kind of just.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Back office type thing that apparently they put a school
board election on their by mistake and it screwed up
the system. Big Day, first day of summer June twenty first,
Houston will transform into a giant.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Make music Day.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh Yes, going to be celebrating two big things FIFA
part of the entertainment and Anthony.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What holiday comes in June U Fathers Honesday. Yesterday, Big celebration.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's led by a group called Fresh Arts, and they'll
be live music all over town again. That's something to
look forward to on June twenty first. Now, weather today,
we still have rain all day long, so slipping and
sliding in hydroplaning drive slow cool things down a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We're only going to go up to eighty Right now.

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It is sixty nine in Uptown and you're up to
date from Sunday ninety nine point one as we get
ready for the eight o'clock All Music Hour and at
eight ten it's our Battle of the Verbs on Sunday,
Sunny ninety nine point one. Dana in the morning, it's
the eight o'clock All Music Hour and we have got
our Battle of the Verbs contestants.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
We've got Jeff representing the Woodlands, has been there eight
years and.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Manisha representing sugar Land, also living there eight years.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Jeff, what are you loving about the Woodlands?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh? I really like the pools in the park.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
We have out here, Eggs and Menisha. What about you
and sugar Land? What are you love it?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I love it everything, community accepts to everything.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I don't need to go out.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Of It's all right there, excellent we'll say hi to
each other.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Good morning, Hi morning, both of y'all.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Welcome to our battle of the verbs. Going to jump
start your hump day with questions easier than trying to
avoid all the rain this morning. You want to buzz
yourself in by shouting your name, not the answer, not
your suburb, just shout your name, and the first one
to get too correct takes the wind for today.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Are you all ready all right?

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Go?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Question number one, Remember buzz in by shouting your name.
Yesterday was runoff election day. Ken Paxson wins for US
Senate seat. He's gonna go up against James tall Rico
on the actual election day, which is coming up later
this year. It's actually the month after October. What month
would that be.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Jack, November?

Speaker 4 (02:53):
You're right, November is the month that follows October. Yes,
woodlands on the board. Question number to remember buzz in
by a shouting your name. Talk this morning about how
Demi Lovado stopped off over at BUCkies before a concert
at Toyota Center. And she's not alone. There's another singer
who did the same thing. He's famous for his song
I Wanna Fly Away. His name is Lenny What Jeff jud.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Jeff for the win.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
He looked so fun.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, he did tour bus walking around with his six
pack in the BUCkies.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
E Bucky's Nuggets. Hey, Manisha, will you play with us again?
You did great? Yes, all right, take you here in
this show.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Welcome anytime, and Jeff, way to go. We're sending you
in a plus one out to see the band The Fix.
The group is heading to the House of Blues for
their Houston show and we got you into the show
coming up July twenty third.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Jeff, enjoy this show.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Thank you so much for listening to Sunday ninety nine
point one.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
We appreciate you every morning Sunny ninety nine point one
with Dana in the morning.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Getting your day started, feeling goods, Give us your good news.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Tell me something good brought to us by our friends
at Goodwill Houston.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
The National Spelling Bee began yesterday in Washington.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
D C.

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New venue.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Mixed reviews on the venue, but that doesn't matter. What
matters is there are three Houston area kids who made
it to the National Spelling Bee.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Haven or Sua, twelve.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Years old, a sixth grader at Melito Middle School in Pasadena.
Logan Bailey also twelve years old is a home schooled
sixth grader. And then we've got Zachary Teo, nine years old,
a third grader at River Okes Elementary School and the
National Spelling Bee. The finals will be today and then
tomorrow is when we get the know. The semifinals are

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today tomorrow. The trophy fifty two thousand in cash and
prizes for the winner.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Joe Houston Kids and you can dream it.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, you just go to spellingb Spellingbee dot com and
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