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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. We've
got the three things you need to know to get
your Wednesday, September seventeen started lots of billboards around. Look around,
you're going to see eighteen new ones. They're from HISD.
Yep braggnon improved academics at HISD schools. The cost of
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the eighteen billboards three hundred and fifty thousand, the purpose
to encourage more kids to enroll. The district has lost
thirty thousand students over the last ten years, and with
vouchers coming next year, enrollment could continue to decline well.
The US Census Bureau data shows Houston now has the
highest poverty rate among the largest US cities, and apparently
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its rent increases and stagnant wages to blame. Hopefully the
report will create better policies to help Houstonians, and the
Houston Zoo has been giving updates on their own This
big line seventeen year old Maddie. She's been moving slow.
They find that she's got kidney disease and some other
health ailments. She is being cared for by veterinarians behind
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the scenes, but you can still see the other lines
at the zoo. Maddie's sister, for instance, Ouzima, and a
male line, Hasani.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
The zoo will continue to give us updates on Maddie's progress.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well, your weather today, it's kind of partly sunny right now,
but we do have a forty percent chance that we
could get a strong storm. Gonna go up to ninety
three right now, seventy five in uptown and you're up
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To get your tickets, you want to call one eight
hundred three zero three four four one three producer Anthony Dane.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
This is really cool.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
We have people all over the world watching one of
our Houston storm chasers. His name is him Garcia. He's
known online at storm Chaser HDX, and over the past
eight years, his footage has reached hundreds of thousands in
Texas and beyond. It started like eight years ago with
one video. He was at home in North Houston during
a heavy downpour. He pulls out his phone, opens up
Facebook Live, starts filming. Before he knows it, he's on
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the Weather channel and he ends up on National TV
and other media outlets start reaching out. He begins up
posting more content, gradually growing from a following of a
few hundred, it's more than one hundred and fifty thousand
across instax, TikTok. His videos have been picked up by
Texas storm Chasers, even Jimmy Kimmel Live Khou. He's also
served as ABC thirteen's official Houston storm tracker. He has
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no degreed, a just instinct experience a sharpey. He tells people,
I'm just a regular guy. You can do this too,
and the key is to get footage that no one
else has. He says, I feel like this is going
to be what I do for the rest of my life.
So thank you, Hi May Garcia, Jason, our crazy Houston
weather and helping keep all of us a little safer and.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Nothing like following his calling. Didn't even know, right?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Really amazing?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well here's another one, following his calling and earning a
spot on the New York Times prestigious Best fifty Places
to Eat an America list, The only Houston restaurant to
make the list. Shop and Block, specializing in West African cuisine,
chef Opie Amosu grew up in London, spent time in Nigeria,
then ended up in Southwest Houston. He always wanted McDonald's
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as a kid, but his parents were like, no, there's
food at home. He learns skills at Chipotle and then
started studying West African home cooks. He is proud of
having the most diversive dining room in the entire city.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Isn't that an amazing job? Great job?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Chopping Block Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best variety
of the eighties, nineties, and today. I'm Dana with producer Anthony.
I spent last week with family Anthony, nine grandkids, and
a bunch of adults, and I put down some rules.
I said, there are to be no dishes left in
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the sink. You eat, you put your dishes in the dishwasher.
No dishes in the sink. Yeah, and no shoes everywhere.
I put them all downstairs. So here's the deal. I
don't need a cleaning lady because I'm kind of militant
about that stuff, and it just goes for a kind
of a smooth functioning household. I'm a mom of five kids,
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so we have to be very efficient. I worked, and
it's you know, you gotta have some rules. But when
we did. My mother in law convinced me one year.
She said, I'm going to get you a cleaning lady
for Christmas. And I said, all right, mom, we'll do it.
She lasted six months. It was the most miserable experience
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because my kids became so lazy.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Ooh complacence.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, if she wasn't there, she only came twice a week.
Then what did the kids do with their stuff? Will
they leave it out? And wait for the cleaning lady
to go.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
We're going to take care Oh yeah, so we nipped.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That in the button and I said, no more so, Anthony.
How are you about dishes in the sink, shoes everywhere?
Are you kind of like a laid back, chill guy.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
No, the dish dishes, we we usually take care of that, jessin.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And the shoes. The shoes, yeah, the shoes are usually
put away as well too.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Jess and I always say, like, if there's any mess
in the house, it's usually just like some stuff. It's
never dirty stuff though. It's never dishes. We could say
we have a messy house, but we'll never we never
will have a dirty It's not a dirty yeah, because
we always stay up on like that, like anything that
would would get gross. Dishes, floors, bathrooms, will usually stay
on those pretty pretty regularly. We're pretty good about that week.
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When we first moved into the house, we had a
week or I think Jess had.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
She did.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
They had a housekeeper from her mom's house, I think,
and so we had her over for like a little
bit in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But we realized, what, you know, we're already doing all this. Anyways,
we don't really.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Need her money.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It can be oh yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And we didn't have kids or anything, so it was like, okay,
we this is stuff we can just take care of
ourselves and it's no problem some like. But we did
ask on our Facebook, and I remember there was a
guy we were just mentioning his comment. I think it
was Donald. He mentioned, like them having one maybe on
a bi monthly basis.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I could see that for maybe like the bigger things,
or like maybe some of the bathrooms you don't get to,
or like that.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I could see, like that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We did ask you because it was our nearly impossible question.
Sixty five percent of people say that having a housekeeper
help their relationships with the family. All right now, I
disagree on the other percent. But Sergio says, yes, it
would help me get organized. Bobby said it would make
my life so easy. Ron said, oh yeah, it would
affect me. It would affect my wallet, and Karina said,
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I'd finally have a life. I mean, what about you
your experience with a house cleaner, would it really change
or are you kind of like a hands on person
like you sure you don't have to do it yourself
and you expect the kids to clean up after themselves
seven one three two one.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Two five ninety nine one Sunday ninety nine point one.
It is seven twenty two.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Now we've got Houston's Best Party at the eighties, nineties
and today I'm Dana with producer Anthony and our nearly
Impossible question. Sixty five percent said a housekeeper really helped
with their relationships. I guess there was no bickering about
doing the dishes, making the beds, vacuuming, dusting, all that
stuff that we don't like to do. But for the
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rest of us, it did not help relationships. A matter
of fact, when I had a housekeeper that my mother
got from me for Christmas, it made the kids super lazy.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The days that she was there, which was like most days.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They didn't put their stuff away because they were waiting
for her to come. So it kind of backfired. So
we're asking you about your experience. We even asked the
question how to housekeeper affect your life up on our
Facebook At Sonny ninety nine Houston. Corarina said, I'd finally
have a life. Sheila said, don't need one. I live
in an RV. Cleaning is easy. I love that one,
and Bobby says it would make my life so easy.
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Searchill thought it would be a great idea to help
me get organized.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And we're asking you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
We've got Jerry on the line. Jerry, have you ever
had a housekeeper?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Never had one, and probably never will.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
How come, Jerry, my wife is very picky about the
house I figured, Yeah, So, what's what's it like living
with a very picky wife like that?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It's pretty good in a way.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I try to help, but she still.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Comes behind me in.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Jerry.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I know, my poor husband, he can't win yet. Jerry,
you can't do anything right right, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Except just said down on the couch and watch your doing.
That's what you do. That's what Bom does. All right?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Talk about making the bed? Did you ever try to
make the bed? Now?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I do a real good job on the bed. Really
did you learn? I'm very very picky about.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It, Jerry?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What's your wife? What's your wife's name?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Rohnda? And so you thought this is a keeper because
you'll just be able to sit on the couch for
the most part, right right?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah? Well December years.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Wow, ye's amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Does she ever leave dishes in the sink?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Or is the house just pristine once she gets through it.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh no, no, no dishes in the sink, no dishes
on the counter.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I do have out on the dish apart.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Jerry, let me ask you dishes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So it sounds like you guys have really come up
with a happy medium in your relationship.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh. Absolutely, Oh that's excellent, Jerry. Well, how did you
meet her? She state my brother? She did your brother hot?
Tell me more. Well, when when we were sixteen, she
come over, come over the sea, my brother and I
was there and you know, uh huh, I am the.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Amazing Jerry.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, you're a sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'm so glad you shared with us, and I'm glad
that you listened to Sonny.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
We truly appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You guys are my number one.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Took around