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Figgy’s Mixtape dives into whether Houston is getting too futuristic — from driverless trucks to 3D-printed homes — plus the wild Christopher “Kid” Reid high-top story you’ve gotta hear.
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00:00Pass the aux cord and crank up the volume, Figgy Figg's in the driver's seat.
00:07Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
00:10It's time for Figgy's Mixtape on Sports Radio 610.
00:15Yes, it is the Mixtape in the Loop, Sports Radio 610.
00:18It's your man, Figgy Figg, holding it down on a Tuesday.
00:21Happy Tuesday to everyone out there.
00:24I feel like it's getting a little, I guess, too advanced in the city of Houston now.
00:30We talked about the whole Waymo thing coming to Houston, I want to say, next year.
00:35We see it's a disaster in L.A. pretty much.
00:38I'm planning my attacks on Waymo.
00:41Yeah, I can't wait to see it.
00:44Except not mine, if anybody's listening.
00:47Did you see what they did in L.A. real quick, Figgy?
00:49In L.A.?
00:50Yeah, a group of like 10 friends.
00:52Oh, yes, I did see this one.
00:54Went to the longest dead-end street in L.A. and all called for a Waymo.
00:58And so 10 Waymo's drove up and were like lost.
01:02They were just stuck there for, I think, like, what was it, like 30 minutes to an hour or something like that?
01:06They were trapped.
01:06Yeah.
01:07Yeah.
01:07So I feel like that's becoming the way of the world.
01:10And it could be the way of the city.
01:12Because, first of all, I just want to salute all the truck drivers out there.
01:16Without question.
01:17Yeah, I know a bunch of them listen to us while they're on the roads.
01:21And they be on the roads day and night and all that stuff all throughout the night.
01:25But a local company in Houston is trying something for the first time.
01:29And I think it might tick off the truck drivers out here.
01:34So here's KHOU with this update.
01:36Bot Auto just hit a major milestone in autonomous trucking.
01:40The Houston-based company completed its first fully driverless test run.
01:44So no one in the cab, no one in the backseat, no one controlling it remotely.
01:49The truck handled Houston traffic on its own, even at sunset, proving, the company says, that it can operate around the clock.
01:56The company adds this successful run sets the stage for humanless commercial cargo trips between Houston and San Antonio in the coming months.
02:05Is this too much?
02:07Yes.
02:08Because it said it handled Houston traffic during sunset.
02:11And I was like, did it get the full Houston traffic experience?
02:14Because I can't handle Houston traffic all the time.
02:17And you talk less.
02:19Look, y'all believe it if y'all want to.
02:22And that is the last vehicle, motor vehicle that I want being automated.
02:27Do you imagine, I hate to be morbid, but the damage that can be done by a mistake.
02:33Just from a miscue.
02:34Oh my goodness.
02:36You're right on the damage, but that's not what I was thinking.
02:38What you was thinking.
02:39They carry some cargo that is highly toxic and or explosive.
02:43Also a great point.
02:45Also a great point.
02:46And or explosive.
02:47You're going to put a petroleum driverless 18-wheeler from Valero or whatever barreling down the highway to San Antonio.
02:57And to be fair, these things get dangerous with some of the, all right, I'm getting to see this.
03:01It gets dangerous with like real people who are overworked and can't get the sleep necessary.
03:05That gets problematic as well.
03:07I acknowledge that.
03:09I, hoof, we, there's a lot of trust.
03:11And maybe, maybe I'm just doing the thing where, you know, we're all technologically averse and we get a little scared of things that we don't fully understand.
03:20Maybe that's what it is.
03:22But, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:23I'll be scared.
03:24Don't do that.
03:25Don't do that.
03:25Man, that's a little too much for me, man.
03:27That's a little scary.
03:29You at least have somebody in the car.
03:30Yeah.
03:31If anything.
03:32But nobody controlling it.
03:33It's just, I don't know, that's giving me anxiety a little bit.
03:37I've always been a big fan of like these types of things, but that one makes me a little unnerved.
03:42That one makes me a little unnerved.
03:44Yeah.
03:47As I continue on the mixtape in the loop, Sports Radio 16.
03:51Can I do the thing I'm not supposed to do and press pause here on the mixtape?
03:54Go ahead.
03:54I just thought about the fact, you know how the Waymo's be getting stuck sometimes?
03:58Do you know how bad Houston traffic could be?
04:00Oh, yes.
04:01If the semi truck gets stuck off some stupid stuff?
04:04Yeah, just a malfunction.
04:06Oh, my God.
04:07Yeah.
04:08Oh, sorry.
04:09Sorry.
04:10No, that will be terrible.
04:11Let me know if this is terrible to you.
04:13So, there's some more interesting things going on in the city of Houston.
04:17We talked about the driverless truck.
04:19What about 3D printed homes?
04:22Have you heard about this?
04:23Yeah, I have.
04:23They've been trying to do this for like a decade at least.
04:26Yeah, yeah.
04:27So, here's KPRC2 with this update.
04:30Imagine your next home getting printed by a robot.
04:34In Houston's hobby area, that's exactly what's about to happen.
04:37This is the soon-to-be Zuri Gardens community, the first 3D printed neighborhood in Houston.
04:42Vanessa Cole is behind the project.
04:4480 homes she designed to be affordable and resilient.
04:48Each home is two beds and two baths.
04:50They'll start in price around the mid to upper $200,000.
04:53So, we'll print a 10 by 10 foot wall in about 35 to 40 minutes.
04:56What they're doing is they're printing layers.
04:57Now, for the house behind us here, they need 9 foot tall walls.
05:01They'll have to put down more than 200 of these layers, but they can build that entire first floor in roughly 4 to 5 days.
05:08And those walls? Hurricane winds can't knock them down.
05:11Flood water can't destroy them.
05:13And termites, well, they don't stand a chance.
05:15They're made from a special kind of concrete.
05:17That's a byproduct of coal and energy generation traditionally.
05:21So, there's a lot of, you know, recycled and reused materials already in the system.
05:26By summer 2027, this could be Houston's most futuristic neighborhood.
05:31Now, this is something, Figgy, I completely endorse and support because this is what AI and advanced technology is supposed to be best at and used for.
05:53You know, not like, you know, using it as whatever, some search engine that gives you wrong information.
05:57But, like, if you can program it the right way, I mean, it's probably going to come up with the cheapest materials, as you just heard there.
06:04Maybe some of the strongest, you know, whatever products and the things you use, you know, to build the house.
06:12I think this is what it's designed to be at its best for.
06:16Yeah, this has always been a thing that was very interesting in theory.
06:20Materials, that's the word I was thinking.
06:21Yes.
06:22There's been a problem with it consistently because, again, people have started doing this at least a decade ago.
06:27This is where my architecture nerd pops out.
06:31I can't remember exactly what the issue was, whether it was, like, interestingly enough, like, having the quality control of it, which you would think 3D printing would work.
06:42But for some reason, like, there has been an issue that has constantly stopped the notion of 3D printing.
06:47I'm interested to see and dig more into this story, if you could actually send it to me.
06:51Yeah, because I am interested, and I have been following the notion of 3D printing.
06:54But wouldn't you agree, like, you know, cheaper materials, stronger materials, good designs down to the millimeter, you know, as opposed to some dude like, yeah, I can build that.
07:02And then you get the estimate, and then you get who knows what materials they're getting and all that.
07:06Yeah, I'm in on this.
07:07And it might just be the idea that the machinery needed to do it, you know, having to set that up and make sure that, you know, obviously it all continues to work.
07:15I can't recall exactly what the problem was, but there has always been a problem.
07:19So I'm interested to see if they've been able to navigate that issue.
07:23But, and construction, construction, having the hands and everything, I understand, ends up being an issue as well.
07:29But I'm very intrigued by the possibility of this.
07:32Yeah.
07:33Yeah, so we all in on this one, but not the driverless trucks.
07:36Correct.
07:37All right.
07:39It's a misstaping Luke Sports Radio 610.
07:42Remember a couple months ago, we were talking about the prison break from New Orleans?
07:48Oh, yeah.
07:48That's right.
07:49Well, apparently, it's another break in Louisiana somewhere.
07:52Oh, boy.
07:53Let's go to ABC 13 News here with that story.
07:57Prison officials in Louisiana dealing with another escapee.
08:01After officials say there, three inmates broke out through a hole in a jail's wall.
08:06So take a look at your screen.
08:08This is the hole officials say the inmates squeezed through, adding that they used a sheet to climb up and through the opening before running off.
08:16One inmate was recaptured shortly after this escape, while another broke into a home, stole a gun, and we're told turned it on himself as officers closed in.
08:25This morning, police are still looking for the last missing inmate, 24-year-old Keith Eli.
08:31He was being held on an attempted second-degree murder charge.
08:34As the search continues, an investigation is underway to look at the jail's security.
08:39All right.
08:40We got to get this guy.
08:41Yeah.
08:41We got to get this guy.
08:42And what's up?
08:43What's up?
08:43Why everybody keep breaking out of these prisons in Louisiana?
08:48What they got going on?
08:49I don't know.
08:50That's a good question.
08:50But whatever they got going on isn't working.
08:53It's not working.
08:54Yeah.
08:55And they kind of labeled this as a Shawshank Redemption type of escape.
09:00Yeah.
09:01Yeah.
09:02So hopefully we get these cats off the street or this guy off the street.
09:06Yeah, the one guy.
09:07Yeah, this ain't cute no more.
09:08That's what I'm saying.
09:09Yeah.
09:09It ain't.
09:10Yeah.
09:11It ain't cute.
09:11And I recognize.
09:12It wasn't as fun as the last one, Figgy.
09:14Yeah, it's not.
09:16But clearly there's an issue going on with Louisiana and their prison systems, man.
09:23I ain't know it was that easy to break out like that.
09:25Apparently so.
09:26And that was an old school one with the bedsheets tied and they just climb on down.
09:31I don't think I could actually do that.
09:33Like the tie in the bed.
09:35Well, escape period.
09:36Yeah.
09:36But like tying the bedsheets and doing the rope climb, I'm like, that sounds good in theory.
09:40But I feel like that's one of those things that's actually harder when you try and do it.
09:44It is.
09:45It is.
09:45Especially or have you ever tried to climb up a rope?
09:48I can't remember the last.
09:49As a kid, I used to do it.
09:50Y'all had to do it in gym and stuff.
09:52I can't remember the last time.
09:53So, I mean, it's one of those things where I've done it before.
09:56Like dunking.
09:57I've done it before.
09:57I have no idea if I can still get to there.
10:00You know what I mean?
10:01Yeah.
10:01Hopefully we get this guy out the streets, man.
10:04It sounds a little scary right there.
10:05Yeah.
10:07All right.
10:08It's the Midstaping and the Loose Sports Radio 610.
10:10I'll get you guys out of here on this.
10:12Remember the group.
10:13Absolutely.
10:16Lopez, you familiar with him?
10:18Not really.
10:19Did you ever see the movie House Party?
10:20Yeah.
10:21Back in the early 90s, the guy with the hot top.
10:23Oh, yeah, yeah.
10:23With the square top.
10:24Yeah.
10:25Christopher.
10:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:26He was big.
10:27Christopher Reed.
10:28He was big for a while.
10:28Yeah, Christopher Reed, also known as Kid, a kid in play.
10:34He was on the Breakfast Club doing an interview, and they asked him about his legendary hot top fade.
10:39Yeah.
10:40And what his parents thought of it when they first saw it, and this is what he had to say.
10:45When you got that flat top and you came home with that, what did your mother say at that time?
10:49Right.
10:49What did your family say?
10:50Well, my mother had passed by then, God rest her soul.
10:54So, I would have gave that white woman a heart attack, okay?
10:57Um, uh, but no, my, my, my, I was raised by my Jamaican father, so he was none too pleased.
11:04He's like, your air look like Abraham Lincoln's act.
11:08And my father was, he was not, although he was Jamaican, he was not a proponent of the hip-hop life.
11:12Say, yeah, you just love this black life, don't you?
11:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:16Like, hold on.
11:21Yeah, just, he never called it hip-hop music.
11:23He said, yeah, just love this yoga, yoga music.
11:26And then, after his name pulls up, you know, he retired.
11:31I took him to the dealership to buy him a car.
11:34He was like, I always believed in you.
11:39I always believed in you.
11:42Give me that black Lexus.
11:47That's the way it usually goes.
11:48Yeah.
11:49Yeah.
11:49You know, I always loved you.
11:51Yeah, I always believed in you.
11:53Yeah, yeah.
11:54Yeah, salute to Christopher Reed.
11:56A.K.A.
11:57Kid of Kid and Play.
11:58What's he doing now?
11:59Does he still wear the hair?
12:00No, no.
12:01The hair is long gone.
12:02But I wonder how, like, that's a, it feels like a uniquely particular, what's right, generation thing.
12:12But, like, every generation has some level of feel of that.
12:15Oh, yeah.
12:15I've never stopped thinking, what is the modern generation of, oh, my parents just don't understand.
12:20Is it streaming?
12:21I think it's streaming.
12:23That's a good question.
12:24Like, the kids wanting to be a streamer?
12:25I know back in my day.
12:27Influencers?
12:28You're going to do what?
12:30Yeah.
12:31I'm a digital influencer.
12:32I know back in my day, it was the big clothes.
12:35Like, my parents didn't understand me wearing a size 42 jeans.
12:39Yeah.
12:40Or just big shirts and all that stuff.
12:42The do-rags, they ain't, they ain't understand the do-rags.
12:45Like, why am I going out in public with that thing on my head?
12:49At one point, it was the braids.
12:51It was the braids.
12:52Everybody trying to get braids, and it was just like, oh, uh-uh.
12:55You ain't walking around with no braids.
12:57Well, I was thinking more in terms of, like, things kids do, but the fashion thing, what is, like, the crazy fashion thing right now?
13:03I don't even.
13:04Like, if you go home as a teenager and say, or a college student, and say, yeah, I'm going to focus on my digital influencing, your parents are probably going to say, the hell you are.
13:14You know, go get a job.
13:15But it is a thing.
13:16Yeah.
13:17But in terms of fashion, what is the fashion they just don't get at thing?
13:22Yeah.
13:23I know, kind of speaking on experience, my hairdresser, my locks lady, as I call her, Reesey, her son wanted to, he wanted to dye his hair gray.
13:34He got some real long locks, and he wanted to dye his hair gray.
13:39She's like, absolutely not.
13:40Uh-uh.
13:41Like, they had a full-blown argument.
13:43He's like, ma, come on, ma.
13:45Everybody else do it.
13:46She's like, no, you're not doing, you're not dyeing your hair gray.
13:49Yeah.
13:50She was just, like, totally against herself.
13:51Maybe, I don't know if it's dyeing your hair or what.
13:56I have no idea.
13:57I think it's like a big fashion thing right now.
13:58Yeah.
13:59The kids are actually starting to go back to the 70s.
14:02Look, bell-bottoms, a little bit of the 90s, according to the A32.
14:05All right.
14:06Yeah, I've seen a little bit of that.
14:08Oh, man.
14:08Bell-bottoms, yes.
14:09I have never felt more like somebody's daddy in this moment than like, what are the youths doing?
14:13But is that something the parents are going to be like, uh-uh, you ain't wearing that?
14:16They probably like that.
14:17Because even back in the day, the short skirts or the short shorts, it's like, oh, you ain't wearing that?
14:23Uh-uh.
14:24Yeah.
14:24So I wonder what that is today.
14:25Yeah, help me out because I'm very intrigued and I just don't have a good answer.
14:29I wonder what that is today.
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