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Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n
On today’s Hello Houston, we celebrate the first anniversary of our show’s launch with returning guests, including our first guest, City Controller Chris Hollins<\/a>, who discusses the state of the city one year after joining us on our first show.<\/p>\n Then, Houston comedian and content creator Chinedu<\/a> joins us to celebrate the show’s anniversary, having also joined us on our first show, as well as talk about his stand-up comedy work and his love for Houston.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n In the show’s second hour, Chris Ballard<\/a>, President and CEO of the Memorial Park Conservancy<\/a>, joins us to talk about the park’s transformative 100-acre project that will honor its World War I roots while also introducing new spaces for recreation, learning, and reflection.<\/p>\n Plus, Back to the Future<\/a> co-writer Bob Gale<\/a> talks to us about the iconic movie’s lasting impact, his involvement with the franchise, and its Broadway musical adaptation, which will run in Houston through Sunday, April 5.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste talk about today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including NASA beginning the countdown to launch the Artemis II mission<\/a>, which they discuss with Houston Public Media reporter Michael Adkison<\/a>, and YouTube children\u2019s creator Ms. Rachel calling for the closure of an ICE detention center in Texas.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we celebrate the first anniversary of our show’s launch…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[71871,9971,155770,189138,162821,291125,291126,54443,135568,10882,9973,9974,4345,155130,121011,425,161815,230760,916,50,96739,5546,783,358,9977,3187],"class_list":["post-695587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-artemis-ii","tag-arts-culture","tag-back-to-the-future","tag-back-to-the-future-the-musical","tag-bob-gale","tag-chinedu-ogu","tag-chris-ballard","tag-chris-hollins","tag-city-controller-chris-hollins","tag-city-of-houston","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-budget","tag-houston-comedian","tag-local","tag-memorial-park","tag-memorial-park-conservancy","tag-nasa","tag-news","tag-opera-musical-theater","tag-pop-culture","tag-space","tag-texas","tag-theatre-film","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116325636755744470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695587","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=695587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}