{"id":203731,"date":"2026-03-13T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/203731\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:11:12","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-march-13-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/203731\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (March 13, 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.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/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; Ernie and Frank talk about the upcoming 2026 Oscars with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/daveBackstageOL\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dave Morales<\/a>, co-owner and editor of the entertainment news website BackstageOL.com, who tells us his predictions for this year&#8217;s ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Dom Finetti and Patrick McAlexander of the Houston-based non-profit a cappella ensemble <a href=\"https:\/\/spacecitysound.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space City Sound<\/a> join us to discuss what they do, their upcoming performance, and members of the ensemble treat us to a special performance.<\/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, we discuss the rise of prediction markets with Dustin Gouker, publisher of the Substack newsletter The Event Horizon, who helps us better understand this fast-moving industry and where the idea of betting on anything came from.<\/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; Ernie and Frank talk about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[80326,30087,1174,910,80327,80328,80329,2245,2246,56,58,57,66,278,223,80330,30088,80331,80332,80333,3621,18624],"class_list":["post-203731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-a-capella","tag-academy-awards","tag-arts-culture","tag-business","tag-dave-morales","tag-dom-finetti","tag-dustin-gouker","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-music","tag-news","tag-oscar-predictions","tag-oscars","tag-patrick-mcalexander","tag-prediction-markets","tag-space-city-sound","tag-technology","tag-theatre-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}