Dana In The Morning Highlights 4/10
Signs and other popular items from Minute Maid Park are currently being auctioned off
American Idol audition breathes new life into music of local gospel singer - Earnest Pugh
Apparently most of us actually LIKE mowing the lawn
Signs and other popular items from Minute Maid Park are currently being auctioned off
American Idol audition breathes new life into music of local gospel singer - Earnest Pugh
Apparently most of us actually LIKE mowing the lawn
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sonny Matty nine point one, Houston's Best Variety of the
eighties nineties and today Dana in the Morning and producer
Anthony and the Three Things You Need to Know to
get your Thursday April tenth started. Well, he's a Houston legend,
grew up in the fifth Ward. Monday, he will be honored.
There's going to be a celebration of the life of
George Foreman at the Wortham Center. He was a successful
(00:22):
heavyweight boxer and a businessman. Died March twenty first. He
was seventy six ten forty five. Monday morning, that's when
it's going to start. And I had no idea that
George Foreman grill was so huge, selling one hundred million units.
He had ten children and five sons, famously.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Named George Ford.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yep, yep. Well, the world's biggest celebration of art cars
and innovative vehicles will parade downtown on Saturday, drawing more
than three hundred thousand in years past. This is the
actually the thirty ninth annual Art Car Parade, featuring hundreds
of cars and vehicles from twenty three states. And there
are all kinds of shapes and sizes, some as dogs
(01:03):
or bananas, the Rising.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Phoenix and more.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And it's going to begin at Dallas Street at Bagbie
Saturday at two. And if you want a piece of
Minute Maade Park, the letters, the signs, the oranges, oh h,
there's an auction going on. Yep. The Astros auctioning off
these signs is as of yesterday, the highest bid the
Minute Made Park sign at the home Plate Southgate that
(01:26):
was going for nineteen hundred dollars, the travit the excuse me,
the Train's orange that has a ladybug on top. Latest
bid one thousand dollars. You can go to Astros dot
auctions dot MLB dot com and Weather today beautiful, but
we do have an ozone alert. We're going to be
sunny going up to eighty seven eighty eight and actually
we're gonna have this weather right through next week.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's rain.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, beautiful for all kinds of activities. And right now
it's sixty in Uptown and you're up to date from
Sunday ninety nine point one. Tell me something good brought
to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. I would
like to introduce you to the dogs who are helping
shoppers find their next favorite reads. Yup, Houston area booksellers
(02:10):
have furry friends to help you find your next favorite book.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
They are good girls and boys.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
They greet customers, they attend events perfect for social media posts.
Every bookshop buddy that's what they're called, has a unique personality.
They're very chill, trustworthy. So far, there are four Houston
area bookstores with these doggie ambassadors. They include Blue Willow
Bookshop that would be Jackie Dawson, Kaboom Books has Olive
(02:40):
Murdered by the Book has Sir Benedict and check this
one out. Bras's Bookstore has Codazi.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I love that producer Anthony Dane. This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
There's several high school teams currently competing over at Space
Center Houston, competing in a cooking competition to have their
dishes set to space. The competition is all part of
the Hunch Culinary channel that allows high school students to
combine their passion for the culinary arts and science. The
winning team of this contest will have their dish sent
to space to support astronauts aboard the International Space Station,
as well as earning a scholarship. And one local team
(03:12):
from Angleton High schools hoping their chicken and chickpee pasta
dish will be crowned the victor. They say the top
three teams will be revealed next month. But this is
really cool. Good luck to Angleton High School creating a
dish that's truly out of this world.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I love that. I also love this story. Wow, who
would have thought so?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Ernest Pugh, he's a Houston based gospel singer has been
creating beautiful gospel music for years. He had this surprise
of his life March thirtieth. His phone is blowing up
palls and text. He's like, who was born?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Who died? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, it turns out a seventeen year old contestant on
American Idol named James Hill performed one of Ernest's songs,
I Need Your Glory. The judges were blown away by
the song, especially Lionel Ritchie, and Ernest said when he
found out about this, it made him smile that his
(04:05):
body of work was kind of being reinvigorated with a
new generation and.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
They're putting their own spin on it. It's created a
renewed interest for his work.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's Ernest Pew and he is actually going to be
releasing a new album on May thirtieth. It's like timing
is destiny right. It's called We Want to See You.
So check out Ernest Pew. What an incredible story. And
if you want to see or tell me something good
stories up at Sunny ninety nine dot com.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's where you'll find them.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You can also follow us on Facebook, x, Instagram, and TikTok.
Sunny ninety nine Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's best
variety of the eighties nineties and today we're talking about
outdoor chores during this time of the year, and one
of them we learned in our Nearly Impossible Question. We
really enjoy it, and it is mowing the grass. I
(04:54):
love it so much. Anthony likes it periodically, doesn't like
to do it in the heat.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I'm all about doing in the heat.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I feel like it's excellent exercise, good source of vitamin
D and your skin will glisten when you're.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
All said, yeah, I will.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And we have got Kyle calling in from Houston. Kyle, Now,
what's mowing for you?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So I own a landscaping company.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Ah, okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Kyle owns a landscaping company. Now, Kyle, you do this
for a living because you love it or because it
makes you good money.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Both, you know. I started when I was six years old.
I loved mowing the grass. I love the way it smells.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes, yeah, that's true. That's a great point. Fresh cut grass, Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Fresh cut grass. Yeah, I absolutely loved it. I was
that kid on the weekends that was mowing grass.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And then you have to go find a neighbor who
needs their grass mode right, absolutely. Yeah. And so at
six years old you start mowing, you get your allowance.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You're getting money from the neighbors. When did you start
your own company when you were fifteen?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Oh? Yeah. That's what got me through high school and
some in college and then I was like, hey, I
think I can make a career out of this.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Wowchday. So what does your landscaping company do? What are
your specialties?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So we're residential, we mainly focus. We actually do design, installation,
and we do full scale maintenance.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Wowday.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
What part of town are you?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Pretty much? Houston proper?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Uh huh. What is the name of your landscaping company?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Grow and Company?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Grow and Company?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And how do you get your employees, Like what do
they have to do to be come working?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
With Kyle.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Oh my goodness. So it's a lot of word of
mouth and a lot of our team members who are
excellent at what they do. They're they're definitely like craftsmen.
We just lean on them to bring in people they know,
and uh, we have some great people.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh Kyle, that is ky.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Started out as a childhood passion and now you're able
to make a living to be Do you have kids
and everything?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I do? Yep. I have three young girls and I'm
trying to get them into it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So we'll see going to say, because I mean, honestly,
why not. I mean I love yard work and I
think gardening is a huge hobby for people and grass
and maintaining your grass and edging and putting out the
flower beds. I bet your daughters would be great assets
to you, Dad, give you a whole different perspective, right absolutely.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And it's never they're never too young to start because
you just plant the feet in the ground and it
really that's what got me into it too.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's so cool. I love that story.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's excellent, Kyle. Thank you so much for sharing. And
how do you fare in the Houston heat?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Oh? Yeah, well I'll tell you and I tell a
lot of our clients. Irrigation is not a supplement for
ring off, so landscaping is always going to struggle in
the heat of the summer.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I always recommend water less frequently, but water deeper.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, advice excellent, super great. And what about the three
o'clock in the morning watering? Am I right on that
or is that a myth?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
No? You're perfect.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Ye, my plans love it, they do. Kyle, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Enjoy time with your little girls, and we thank you
so much for sharing.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Amen, Thank you all.
Sonny Matty nine point one, Houston's Best Variety of the
eighties nineties and today Dana in the Morning and producer
Anthony and the Three Things You Need to Know to
get your Thursday April tenth started. Well, he's a Houston legend,
grew up in the fifth Ward. Monday, he will be honored.
There's going to be a celebration of the life of
George Foreman at the Wortham Center. He was a successful
(00:22):
heavyweight boxer and a businessman. Died March twenty first. He
was seventy six ten forty five. Monday morning, that's when
it's going to start. And I had no idea that
George Foreman grill was so huge, selling one hundred million units.
He had ten children and five sons, famously.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Named George Ford.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yep, yep. Well, the world's biggest celebration of art cars
and innovative vehicles will parade downtown on Saturday, drawing more
than three hundred thousand in years past. This is the
actually the thirty ninth annual Art Car Parade, featuring hundreds
of cars and vehicles from twenty three states. And there
are all kinds of shapes and sizes, some as dogs
(01:03):
or bananas, the Rising.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Phoenix and more.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And it's going to begin at Dallas Street at Bagbie
Saturday at two. And if you want a piece of
Minute Maade Park, the letters, the signs, the oranges, oh h,
there's an auction going on. Yep. The Astros auctioning off
these signs is as of yesterday, the highest bid the
Minute Made Park sign at the home Plate Southgate that
(01:26):
was going for nineteen hundred dollars, the travit the excuse me,
the Train's orange that has a ladybug on top. Latest
bid one thousand dollars. You can go to Astros dot
auctions dot MLB dot com and Weather today beautiful, but
we do have an ozone alert. We're going to be
sunny going up to eighty seven eighty eight and actually
we're gonna have this weather right through next week.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's rain.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, beautiful for all kinds of activities. And right now
it's sixty in Uptown and you're up to date from
Sunday ninety nine point one. Tell me something good brought
to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. I would
like to introduce you to the dogs who are helping
shoppers find their next favorite reads. Yup, Houston area booksellers
(02:10):
have furry friends to help you find your next favorite book.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
They are good girls and boys.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
They greet customers, they attend events perfect for social media posts.
Every bookshop buddy that's what they're called, has a unique personality.
They're very chill, trustworthy. So far, there are four Houston
area bookstores with these doggie ambassadors. They include Blue Willow
Bookshop that would be Jackie Dawson, Kaboom Books has Olive
(02:40):
Murdered by the Book has Sir Benedict and check this
one out. Bras's Bookstore has Codazi.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I love that producer Anthony Dane. This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
There's several high school teams currently competing over at Space
Center Houston, competing in a cooking competition to have their
dishes set to space. The competition is all part of
the Hunch Culinary channel that allows high school students to
combine their passion for the culinary arts and science. The
winning team of this contest will have their dish sent
to space to support astronauts aboard the International Space Station,
as well as earning a scholarship. And one local team
(03:12):
from Angleton High schools hoping their chicken and chickpee pasta
dish will be crowned the victor. They say the top
three teams will be revealed next month. But this is
really cool. Good luck to Angleton High School creating a
dish that's truly out of this world.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I love that. I also love this story. Wow, who
would have thought so?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Ernest Pugh, he's a Houston based gospel singer has been
creating beautiful gospel music for years. He had this surprise
of his life March thirtieth. His phone is blowing up
palls and text. He's like, who was born?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Who died? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, it turns out a seventeen year old contestant on
American Idol named James Hill performed one of Ernest's songs,
I Need Your Glory. The judges were blown away by
the song, especially Lionel Ritchie, and Ernest said when he
found out about this, it made him smile that his
(04:05):
body of work was kind of being reinvigorated with a
new generation and.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
They're putting their own spin on it. It's created a
renewed interest for his work.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's Ernest Pew and he is actually going to be
releasing a new album on May thirtieth. It's like timing
is destiny right. It's called We Want to See You.
So check out Ernest Pew. What an incredible story. And
if you want to see or tell me something good
stories up at Sunny ninety nine dot com.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's where you'll find them.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You can also follow us on Facebook, x, Instagram, and TikTok.
Sunny ninety nine Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's best
variety of the eighties nineties and today we're talking about
outdoor chores during this time of the year, and one
of them we learned in our Nearly Impossible Question. We
really enjoy it, and it is mowing the grass. I
(04:54):
love it so much. Anthony likes it periodically, doesn't like
to do it in the heat.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I'm all about doing in the heat.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I feel like it's excellent exercise, good source of vitamin
D and your skin will glisten when you're.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
All said, yeah, I will.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And we have got Kyle calling in from Houston. Kyle, Now,
what's mowing for you?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So I own a landscaping company.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Ah, okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Kyle owns a landscaping company. Now, Kyle, you do this
for a living because you love it or because it
makes you good money.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Both, you know. I started when I was six years old.
I loved mowing the grass. I love the way it smells.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes, yeah, that's true. That's a great point. Fresh cut grass, Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Fresh cut grass. Yeah, I absolutely loved it. I was
that kid on the weekends that was mowing grass.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And then you have to go find a neighbor who
needs their grass mode right, absolutely. Yeah. And so at
six years old you start mowing, you get your allowance.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You're getting money from the neighbors. When did you start
your own company when you were fifteen?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Oh? Yeah. That's what got me through high school and
some in college and then I was like, hey, I
think I can make a career out of this.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Wowchday. So what does your landscaping company do? What are
your specialties?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So we're residential, we mainly focus. We actually do design, installation,
and we do full scale maintenance.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Wowday.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
What part of town are you?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Pretty much? Houston proper?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Uh huh. What is the name of your landscaping company?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Grow and Company?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Grow and Company?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And how do you get your employees, Like what do
they have to do to be come working?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
With Kyle.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Oh my goodness. So it's a lot of word of
mouth and a lot of our team members who are
excellent at what they do. They're they're definitely like craftsmen.
We just lean on them to bring in people they know,
and uh, we have some great people.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh Kyle, that is ky.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Started out as a childhood passion and now you're able
to make a living to be Do you have kids
and everything?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I do? Yep. I have three young girls and I'm
trying to get them into it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So we'll see going to say, because I mean, honestly,
why not. I mean I love yard work and I
think gardening is a huge hobby for people and grass
and maintaining your grass and edging and putting out the
flower beds. I bet your daughters would be great assets
to you, Dad, give you a whole different perspective, right absolutely.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And it's never they're never too young to start because
you just plant the feet in the ground and it
really that's what got me into it too.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's so cool. I love that story.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's excellent, Kyle. Thank you so much for sharing. And
how do you fare in the Houston heat?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Oh? Yeah, well I'll tell you and I tell a
lot of our clients. Irrigation is not a supplement for
ring off, so landscaping is always going to struggle in
the heat of the summer.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I always recommend water less frequently, but water deeper.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, advice excellent, super great. And what about the three
o'clock in the morning watering? Am I right on that
or is that a myth?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
No? You're perfect.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Ye, my plans love it, they do. Kyle, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Enjoy time with your little girls, and we thank you
so much for sharing.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Amen, Thank you all.
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