Dana In The Morning Highlights 9/24
$6.5 billion manufacturing plant coming to the area
US News & World Report ranks Houston area universities tops in the US
Frozen pizza is the most common easy meal - what's your favorite brand?
$6.5 billion manufacturing plant coming to the area
US News & World Report ranks Houston area universities tops in the US
Frozen pizza is the most common easy meal - what's your favorite brand?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best Variety the eighties nineties,
and today I'm Dana with producer Anthony and we've got
the three things you need to know to get your Wednesday,
September twenty fourth started well, four thousand new jobs construction
jobs on the way to Houston because Eli Lilly has
announced plans for originally is five point nine billion, now
it's six point five billion dollar manufacturing plant. It's going
(00:25):
to go up in the Generation Park development area, and
then when the construction stops, there'll be six hundred jobs
at Eli Lilly. So great news for our city. So
you just parked your car in a restaurant parking lot
and you hear someone telling you to secure your belongings.
But it's not a human, No, it's ai Axelrad Beer
(00:46):
Garden in Midtown just installed this new type of security.
The local company, Central Force has this security available and
it's also got other features including flashing lights and active
video surveillance.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's all an effort to deter car brakens.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And Fort ben County Animal Shelter or Animal Services has
just unveiled a brand new state of the art mobile
pet adoption service.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
On demand on the spot adoptions.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yes, this mobile adoption unit will have as many as
twenty one dogs or cats per outing. Pet services will
also be available. It made its debut over the weekend
in fullsher so if you are just craving some love
from a furry friend, you can check them out the
Fort ben County Animal Services Mobile Pet Adoption Unit. And
(01:36):
your weather today start out pretty nice, but we do
have stormy weather on the way, lowering the.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Temperatures a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well tomorrow it's still going to be in the eighties,
but the humidity will drop, so it'll feel better today though.
Up to ninety two right now, eighty and uptown and
Europe to date on sunny. Tell me something good brought
to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. Arneckie Medal
for Heroism is the highest honor for civilian heroes, and
(02:05):
a man from Conroe is one of eighteen people to
earn this honor, this time around, risking their lives to
save their fellow man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It happened May twenty eighth of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Robert Chance, a twenty eight year old contractor from Conra,
was driving through spring lots of high water around he
was with his girlfriend and her daughter. He spotted fifty
three year old Jeffrey Jones the vehicle stuck in high water.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Jeffrey couldn't get out well.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Chance stops his car, grabs a hammer and starts pounding
the front windshield and was able to get Jeffrey out
of that vehicle and his girlfriend Renee filmed the whole
entire scary event. Imagine what the little girl was seeing
when she saw this heroic act. Anyway, congratulations to our
(02:54):
Conroe hero Robert Chance, a job well done. Save in
his fellow man, producer and.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Dane, you love to see this.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
We've got three Houston universities that earn spots in the
twenty twenty six US News and World Report Best Colleges
rankings that just dropped yesterday. They evaluated nearly seventeen hundred
colleges using seventeen indicators of academic quality student success, and
as I mentioned, we've got three of our own on
the list. At number one ninety eight, we find the
University of Saint Thomas, recognized for educating underprivileged students. Approximately
(03:24):
eighty percent of their undergrads receive financial aid, making education
possible for so many more. At number one thirty two,
it's our U of Age cited for not having raised
tuition in several years.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They also get recognized as are.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They also recognize their largest freshman class ever this year,
and at number seventeen overall is our Rice University, cited
for their undergraduate teaching, innovation, research projects, learning committees, and
social mobility. It's really cool to see be proud. Some
of the top schools in the country are found right
here in Age Town.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
We seems to be that way, doesn't it. It does happen,
doesn't it now? Anthony, I know you love your ramen.
How about self serve ramen? Yes, you can create your
own bowls of steaming hot ramen and cook them. Ramen
Alley is coming to Chinatown. There's going to be sixty
different flavors over fifty toppings to choose from. You build it,
(04:14):
you add water, you pop it in an induction oven.
Four minutes later, Whila, it's yours. Lots of K pop
group posters going to be all over this place. The
grand opening will be announced city sounds so good. Looking
forward to that and for our feel good stories. Each
weekday mornings set a preset on the new and improved.
iHeartRadio app to Sonny Natti nine point nine. Sunday, Natti
(04:38):
nine played one Houston's Best variety of the eighties nineties.
And today I'm Dana with producer Anthony, and we were
talking about midweek meal prep, a staple that people have
in their freezers just in case you're just tired by Wednesday,
you know, So pizza was the answer, frozen pizza, and
Anthony I started doing some midweek meal prep.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yesterday I cooked.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Whole chicken and then what I do is we had
chicken last night, but the leftover chicken I then could
use like mason jar salads. You can have chicken taco bowls.
There's this really great recipe for you take a large
batch of chicken, shredded or cubed brown rice quene while
black beans, sauteed peppers and onions, and you can put
(05:22):
them in glass containers so you can have them for
the rest of the week. Now, there's not a lot
of variety, but it's healthy food and it's there for
you when you get home from work. Yes, and yeah,
I love that. And then with the leftover chicken bones
and the kind of the broth that it was cooking in.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Wow, I add more water, I add spices, I add
leftover vegetables, and I start cooking a chicken broth.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
When does that chicken feet thing that you do?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And I have chicken feet too.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I live out near farms, so I ordered chicken feet
package chicken feet, and I throw that into the broth.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
She showed me the picture and I was like, wow,
that's actual chicken feet in the broth.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It is actual chicken feet in the broth.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yes, and then you have chicken broth for a nice
healthy heart when the weather gets cooler.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh, a nice hearty chicken. Yeah, soup good love it.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Now we want to ask you about if you've got
any midweek meal prep ideas or if you just go
to the frozen pizza.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Pizza does come through? I know what kind do you
like the best?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Give us a call seven one, nine one, Sunday ninety
nine point one. I'm Dana with producer Anthony, and we've
got Houston's best variety of the eighties nineties and today
we learned in our nearly impossible question midweek we love
going for that frozen pizza has to go to in
the freezer. That's right, there I know, and we're asking
(06:47):
you about your mid week meal prep if you've got
any ideas. Now we've got Linda calling in from the Woodlands.
Very busy lady. You're a professor at sam Houston State
in nursing.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Do you have time to meal prep or do you
have a cook?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well, I'm just restarting my career. So my husband he
kind of cooked for me. So the tables have turned.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh that's awesome, actually pure heavens.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So what kind of meals does he create for you?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
He's big in the shrimpsy's day with doing some sort
of shrimp dish, but he tries to keep it healthy casinos.
I'm trying to be healthier, So he does a good job.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Linda, that is amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Now you live in the Woodlands and you drive to
sam Houston State. What is it about a forty five
to fifty minute drive.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's actually only three miles because our nursing program is
now in the Woodlands. It's been there for about eight years. Y.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think you are the luckiest lady around a three
minute commute and a husband who cooks for you.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
What I cannot complain after thirty five years of marriage
in almost fifteen years at SAM It's been a good experience.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That is fantastic. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, how is it teaching the kids about nursing the students,
It's it's it's.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
A challenge, you know, it's it's as you know, we
want healthcare providers that are gonna look after us well
and we need to. We're moving towards new ways of
teaching them, using more technology and really making them critically
think about how all the parts of the humans fit together,
(08:22):
both physically, emotionally, spiritually, holistically to provide that best care
and and have the best outcomes for our patients, both
in hospital and in the community.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I love that man. That is spot on.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And congrats to your husband for cooking healthy food for
you really so you can go off be a healthy professor.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Now what is your husband's name?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
His name is Scott.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And what was it.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
About Scott that made you just fall in love and
know he was the one?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Wow, it's been thirty five years. We just we just
have a connection. He's kind, he's sensitive, he's loving, very supportive.
You know, he just he just does it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I guess that is amazing. And he cooks that is
so amazing. Linda, You're lucky lady. Thanks for sharing a
little bit of your life with us. We appreciate you
and I'm glad that you listen well.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Thank you so much for having me listening around
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best Variety the eighties nineties,
and today I'm Dana with producer Anthony and we've got
the three things you need to know to get your Wednesday,
September twenty fourth started well, four thousand new jobs construction
jobs on the way to Houston because Eli Lilly has
announced plans for originally is five point nine billion, now
it's six point five billion dollar manufacturing plant. It's going
(00:25):
to go up in the Generation Park development area, and
then when the construction stops, there'll be six hundred jobs
at Eli Lilly. So great news for our city. So
you just parked your car in a restaurant parking lot
and you hear someone telling you to secure your belongings.
But it's not a human, No, it's ai Axelrad Beer
(00:46):
Garden in Midtown just installed this new type of security.
The local company, Central Force has this security available and
it's also got other features including flashing lights and active
video surveillance.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's all an effort to deter car brakens.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And Fort ben County Animal Shelter or Animal Services has
just unveiled a brand new state of the art mobile
pet adoption service.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
On demand on the spot adoptions.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yes, this mobile adoption unit will have as many as
twenty one dogs or cats per outing. Pet services will
also be available. It made its debut over the weekend
in fullsher so if you are just craving some love
from a furry friend, you can check them out the
Fort ben County Animal Services Mobile Pet Adoption Unit. And
(01:36):
your weather today start out pretty nice, but we do
have stormy weather on the way, lowering the.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Temperatures a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well tomorrow it's still going to be in the eighties,
but the humidity will drop, so it'll feel better today though.
Up to ninety two right now, eighty and uptown and
Europe to date on sunny. Tell me something good brought
to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. Arneckie Medal
for Heroism is the highest honor for civilian heroes, and
(02:05):
a man from Conroe is one of eighteen people to
earn this honor, this time around, risking their lives to
save their fellow man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It happened May twenty eighth of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Robert Chance, a twenty eight year old contractor from Conra,
was driving through spring lots of high water around he
was with his girlfriend and her daughter. He spotted fifty
three year old Jeffrey Jones the vehicle stuck in high water.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Jeffrey couldn't get out well.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Chance stops his car, grabs a hammer and starts pounding
the front windshield and was able to get Jeffrey out
of that vehicle and his girlfriend Renee filmed the whole
entire scary event. Imagine what the little girl was seeing
when she saw this heroic act. Anyway, congratulations to our
(02:54):
Conroe hero Robert Chance, a job well done. Save in
his fellow man, producer and.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Dane, you love to see this.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
We've got three Houston universities that earn spots in the
twenty twenty six US News and World Report Best Colleges
rankings that just dropped yesterday. They evaluated nearly seventeen hundred
colleges using seventeen indicators of academic quality student success, and
as I mentioned, we've got three of our own on
the list. At number one ninety eight, we find the
University of Saint Thomas, recognized for educating underprivileged students. Approximately
(03:24):
eighty percent of their undergrads receive financial aid, making education
possible for so many more. At number one thirty two,
it's our U of Age cited for not having raised
tuition in several years.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They also get recognized as are.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They also recognize their largest freshman class ever this year,
and at number seventeen overall is our Rice University, cited
for their undergraduate teaching, innovation, research projects, learning committees, and
social mobility. It's really cool to see be proud. Some
of the top schools in the country are found right
here in Age Town.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
We seems to be that way, doesn't it. It does happen,
doesn't it now? Anthony, I know you love your ramen.
How about self serve ramen? Yes, you can create your
own bowls of steaming hot ramen and cook them. Ramen
Alley is coming to Chinatown. There's going to be sixty
different flavors over fifty toppings to choose from. You build it,
(04:14):
you add water, you pop it in an induction oven.
Four minutes later, Whila, it's yours. Lots of K pop
group posters going to be all over this place. The
grand opening will be announced city sounds so good. Looking
forward to that and for our feel good stories. Each
weekday mornings set a preset on the new and improved.
iHeartRadio app to Sonny Natti nine point nine. Sunday, Natti
(04:38):
nine played one Houston's Best variety of the eighties nineties.
And today I'm Dana with producer Anthony, and we were
talking about midweek meal prep, a staple that people have
in their freezers just in case you're just tired by Wednesday,
you know, So pizza was the answer, frozen pizza, and
Anthony I started doing some midweek meal prep.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yesterday I cooked.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Whole chicken and then what I do is we had
chicken last night, but the leftover chicken I then could
use like mason jar salads. You can have chicken taco bowls.
There's this really great recipe for you take a large
batch of chicken, shredded or cubed brown rice quene while
black beans, sauteed peppers and onions, and you can put
(05:22):
them in glass containers so you can have them for
the rest of the week. Now, there's not a lot
of variety, but it's healthy food and it's there for
you when you get home from work. Yes, and yeah,
I love that. And then with the leftover chicken bones
and the kind of the broth that it was cooking in.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Wow, I add more water, I add spices, I add
leftover vegetables, and I start cooking a chicken broth.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
When does that chicken feet thing that you do?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And I have chicken feet too.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I live out near farms, so I ordered chicken feet
package chicken feet, and I throw that into the broth.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
She showed me the picture and I was like, wow,
that's actual chicken feet in the broth.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It is actual chicken feet in the broth.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yes, and then you have chicken broth for a nice
healthy heart when the weather gets cooler.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh, a nice hearty chicken. Yeah, soup good love it.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Now we want to ask you about if you've got
any midweek meal prep ideas or if you just go
to the frozen pizza.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Pizza does come through? I know what kind do you
like the best?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Give us a call seven one, nine one, Sunday ninety
nine point one. I'm Dana with producer Anthony, and we've
got Houston's best variety of the eighties nineties and today
we learned in our nearly impossible question midweek we love
going for that frozen pizza has to go to in
the freezer. That's right, there I know, and we're asking
(06:47):
you about your mid week meal prep if you've got
any ideas. Now we've got Linda calling in from the Woodlands.
Very busy lady. You're a professor at sam Houston State
in nursing.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Do you have time to meal prep or do you
have a cook?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well, I'm just restarting my career. So my husband he
kind of cooked for me. So the tables have turned.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh that's awesome, actually pure heavens.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So what kind of meals does he create for you?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
He's big in the shrimpsy's day with doing some sort
of shrimp dish, but he tries to keep it healthy casinos.
I'm trying to be healthier, So he does a good job.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Linda, that is amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Now you live in the Woodlands and you drive to
sam Houston State. What is it about a forty five
to fifty minute drive.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's actually only three miles because our nursing program is
now in the Woodlands. It's been there for about eight years. Y.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think you are the luckiest lady around a three
minute commute and a husband who cooks for you.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
What I cannot complain after thirty five years of marriage
in almost fifteen years at SAM It's been a good experience.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That is fantastic. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, how is it teaching the kids about nursing the students,
It's it's it's.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
A challenge, you know, it's it's as you know, we
want healthcare providers that are gonna look after us well
and we need to. We're moving towards new ways of
teaching them, using more technology and really making them critically
think about how all the parts of the humans fit together,
(08:22):
both physically, emotionally, spiritually, holistically to provide that best care
and and have the best outcomes for our patients, both
in hospital and in the community.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I love that man. That is spot on.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And congrats to your husband for cooking healthy food for
you really so you can go off be a healthy professor.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Now what is your husband's name?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
His name is Scott.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And what was it.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
About Scott that made you just fall in love and
know he was the one?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Wow, it's been thirty five years. We just we just
have a connection. He's kind, he's sensitive, he's loving, very supportive.
You know, he just he just does it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I guess that is amazing. And he cooks that is
so amazing. Linda, You're lucky lady. Thanks for sharing a
little bit of your life with us. We appreciate you
and I'm glad that you listen well.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Thank you so much for having me listening around
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