{"id":522269,"date":"2026-01-17T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522269\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:43:28","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-january-16-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522269\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (January 16, 2026) \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 and guest host Doris Childress talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/hec\/director.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roderick Jackson<\/a>, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/hec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Emergency Center<\/a>, who discusses how the center stays prepared to provide Houstonians with emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>Then, actor, singer, and comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0641417\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John O&#8217;Hurley<\/a>, known for several film and TV roles, including playing J. Peterman in Seinfeld, joins us to tell us more about his career and his upcoming one-man show in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/McClain_on_NFL\">John McClain<\/a>, a legendary Houston sportswriter and Texas Hall of Famer, joins us with film producer Rob Lynch to discuss the new sports documentary he&#8217;s hosting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepvilstory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The PVIL Story: Separate&#8230;But Equal<\/a>, about the <a href=\"https:\/\/pvilca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prairie View Interscholastic League<\/a>, a Black high school football league that existed in Texas before desegregation.<\/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 and guest host Doris Childress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[10882,9973,10098,4345,232350,232351,232352,425,50,5546,62,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-522269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-city-of-houston","9":"tag-hello-houston","10":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-emergency-center","13":"tag-john-mcclain","14":"tag-john-o","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-pop-culture","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115909322737210273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522269","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=522269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522269\/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=522269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}