{"id":25129,"date":"2025-10-28T21:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25129\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:31:14","slug":"hello-houston-october-28-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25129\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston (October 28, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HH_Podcast-Cover-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: where Houston talks!\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s Hello Houston, we&#8217;re joined by actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Mark-Ivy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Ivy<\/a>, who tells us all about his role in the Theatre Under the Stars production of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehobbycenter.org\/events\/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee<\/a>, in the first hour of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the second hour, we hear from Reverend Michael E. Garrett, co-chair of the Public Relations subcommittee of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonwcsd.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston White Cane Safety Day<\/a> Committee, who tells us about this event, his experience as a blind man, and the accessibility challenges faced by Houston&#8217;s blind community.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we&#8217;re also joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/spacecityweather.com\/author\/eric\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Berger<\/a>, a Houston-based meteorologist and editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacecityweather.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space City Weather<\/a>, who gives us the latest on Hurricane Melissa after it made landfall in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>And, as always, Ernie, Celeste, and Frank discuss the top stories of the day at the top of each hour, including a federal appeals court rehearing a lawsuit over a drag show ban at West Texas A&amp;M University and former Vice President Kamala Harris saying she might run for President again.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today&#8217;s Hello Houston, we&#8217;re joined by actor Mark Ivy, who tells us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,17757,2245,4103,56,58,57,17758,17085,66,11838,17759,223,5351,287,17760,17761,17762,15162,172],"class_list":["post-25129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-eric-berger","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-white-cane-safety-day","tag-hurricane-melissa","tag-local","tag-local-arts","tag-mark-ivy","tag-news","tag-performing-arts","tag-politics","tag-reverend-michael-e-garrett","tag-space-city-weather","tag-the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee","tag-theatre-under-the-stars","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129","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=25129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}