{"id":311650,"date":"2025-10-17T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311650\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:51:15","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-october-17-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311650\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (October 17, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HH_Podcast-Cover_The-Commuter-Cut-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d Ernie, Celeste, and Frank discuss the growing sex trafficking problem in Houston with <a href=\"https:\/\/crime-stoppers.org\/about-us\/our-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rania Mankarious<\/a>, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/crime-stoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime Stoppers of Houston<\/a>, who explains what&#8217;s being done to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Then, they are joined by Hope Guidry Groves, Vice President of Experience and Product Operations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmdp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Marrow Donation Program<\/a>, who tells us about their work connecting patients in need of a transplant with a matched donor.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we hear from Kenzie Paul, a stem cell transplant recipient who shares her experience after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we hear the latest installment of Frank\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/tag\/friends-of-frank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends of Frank<\/a>\u201d series, in which he talks with major faith leader and spiritual advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russlevenson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reverend Russell Levenson<\/a>, who discusses his new book \u201cWitness to Belief: Conversations on Faith and Meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d Ernie, Celeste, and Frank discuss the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4219,157263,112095,1213,1142,9973,10098,157264,4345,157265,425,157266,50,18884,365,157267,18114,358,3187,157268],"class_list":{"0":"post-311650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-crime-stoppers-of-houston","10":"tag-friends-of-frank","11":"tag-health-science","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-hello-houston","14":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","15":"tag-hope-guidry-groves","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-kenzie-paul","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-national-marrow-donation-program","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-rania-mankarious","22":"tag-religion","23":"tag-russell-levenson","24":"tag-sex-trafficking","25":"tag-texas","26":"tag-tx","27":"tag-witness-to-belief"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115391489032851408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311650","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=311650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}