{"id":312931,"date":"2026-05-28T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312931\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:01:09","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-may-28-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312931\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (May 28, 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; we hear Ernie&#8217;s conversation with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, who gives his reaction to facing off against Republican nominee Ken Paxton in November&#8217;s general election following Tuesday&#8217;s GOP primary runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Houston-based author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalyaniadusumilli.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kalyani Adusumilli<\/a> talks to us about her newly released debut novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalyaniadusumilli.com\/books\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Invisible Canvas<\/a>, and how it explores mental health, trauma, and personal identity.<\/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>And finally, Ernie and guest host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/courtzubowski\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Zubowski<\/a> share the things they&#8217;ve been obsessed with lately as part of our regular Thursday feature, Current Obsessions. You can send Hello Houston your Current Obsessions anytime by emailing us at talk@hellohouston.org.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/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&#8217;s conversation with Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64638,13613,112668,6983,39794,288,2245,2246,56,58,57,2135,112669,1967,66,223,287,1175,75482,27,112670],"class_list":["post-312931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-2026-senate-race","tag-books-libraries","tag-courtney-zubowski","tag-current-obsessions","tag-election-2026","tag-elections","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-james-talarico","tag-kalyani-adusumilli","tag-ken-paxton","tag-local","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-senate-race-in-texas","tag-texas","tag-the-invisible-canvas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312931","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=312931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312931\/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=312931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}