{"id":110867,"date":"2025-08-01T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110867\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:56:19","slug":"retiring-in-houston-aug-1-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110867\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring in Houston (Aug. 1, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saladinpatterson\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-381306 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HM-CC_Banner-FB-Share-1000x525.png\" alt=\"The Houston Matters logo on a white background\" width=\"1000\" height=\"525\"  \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s show: This week, experts from across Texas testified at a hearing on disaster preparedness and flooding in the wake of the deadly Central Texas floods. Among those who testified were representatives from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sspeed.rice.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Rice University\u2019s SSPEED Center<\/a>, whose Jim Blackburn discusses how what happened in Central Texas relates to past storms here.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: A recent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/retirement\/best-and-worst-states-for-retirement\/\" rel=\"noopener\">report from Bankrate<\/a> ranked Texas near the bottom when it comes to the best states to retire. Why? And how does Houston stack up? We consider the pros and cons of retiring here.<\/p>\n<p>Then, from what used to be Houston&#8217;s own Shipley&#8217;s Do-Nuts being sold to a California company, to an ad campaign&#8217;s play on words that has some worried about eugenics, this week&#8217;s non-expert panel weighs in on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/good-bad-ugly\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly<\/a> of the week.<\/p>\n<p>And Hank, Peggy, and Bobby are back as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118375\/\" rel=\"noopener\">King of the Hill<\/a> returns after 15 years. Its showrunner Saladin Patterson talks about bringing back the beloved animated series and its depiction of small-town Texas life.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday\u2019s show: This week, experts from across Texas testified at a hearing on disaster preparedness and flooding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[34004,8580,16304,4345,16305,37790,29139,425,50,700,17171,67661,3996,70445,399,358,42353,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-110867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-central-texas-floods","9":"tag-flooding","10":"tag-full-show","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-matters","13":"tag-jim-blackburn","14":"tag-king-of-the-hill","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-retirement","18":"tag-retiring","19":"tag-shipley-do-nuts","20":"tag-shows","21":"tag-sspeed-center","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-texas","24":"tag-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","25":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114954802429426781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}