{"id":677212,"date":"2026-03-24T01:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/677212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:17:35","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-march-23-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/677212\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (March 23, 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&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; we hear Ernie and Frank&#8217;s conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.rice.edu\/faculty\/reginald-desroches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rice University President Reginald DesRoches<\/a>, who talks about the university&#8217;s initiatives that have been launched in recent years, as well as his priorities moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Houston-area jazz pianist Barry Seelen and neurologist <a href=\"https:\/\/med.uth.edu\/neurosurgery\/2023\/09\/08\/justine-m-chen-md\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Justine Chen<\/a> join us to share Seelen\u2019s health journey after a new treatment helped him regain the ability to swallow and eat certain foods after he experienced a massive stroke last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Houston comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/marcusdwiley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus D. Wiley<\/a> joins us to discuss his comedy career, having previously been a TSU professor, his clean approach to comedy, and his new full-length stand-up special, Rehab.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; we hear Ernie and Frank&#8217;s conversation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[285318,1144,407,1213,1142,9973,10098,4345,121011,285319,425,285320,50,285321,16382,35166,358,3187],"class_list":["post-677212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-barry-seelen","tag-comedy","tag-education","tag-health-science","tag-healthcare","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-comedian","tag-justine-chen","tag-local","tag-marcus-d-wiley","tag-news","tag-reginald-desroches","tag-rice-university","tag-stroke-treatment","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116281517483719915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677212","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=677212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677212\/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=677212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}