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On today’s Hello Houston, we’re joined by Joshua McGinty<\/a>, a professor and agronomist at Texas A&M University, who discusses this year’s widespread drought and what it could mean for Texas farmers, food production, and the growing season ahead. <\/p>\n Then, in this week’s Five Simple Questions, Hello Houston Executive Producer Jim Kovacik sits down with Andrew Youngblood, founder of The Secret Group, for a conversation about work, life, and the experiences that have shaped him.<\/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 second hour, we turn to health and talk with Dr. Gary Seale, Regional Director of the Centre for Neuro Skills<\/a>, who talks to us about concussions, the long-term effects of traumatic brain injuries, and the misconceptions that still surround these kinds of injuries.<\/p>\n And finally, Angle Bush, a Houstonian and the founder and CEO of Black Women in Artificial Intelligence<\/a>, discusses being named to the TIME100 AI list, why diversity in artificial intelligence matters, and how she’s helping shape the next generation of AI innovators.<\/p>\n And, as always, our hosts Tessa Barrera and Michael Adkison discuss today’s top stories, including Mayor Whitmire withdrawing Houston\u2019s application<\/a> for the DOJ\u2019s \u201cModel Cities Initiative,” a federal appeals court deciding if a Texas law restricting protests on college campuses is constitutional, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth creating an Office of Religious Affairs.<\/p>\n Plus, at the top of the show, we talk with Kimberly Smith, Regional Clinical Manager with The Forensic Center of Excellence<\/a>, and trauma therapist Chau Nguyen<\/a>, who both share their thoughts on the latest on the alleged gang rape at Cornell University and the psychological tolls of sexual assault.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we’re joined by Joshua McGinty, a professor and agronomist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[142583,156814,3436,156815,143197,97172,156816,82272,470,2327,146165,156817,2940,2244,2245,4103,56,58,57,156818,156819,66,27248,91951,223,4031,3621,11696,156820,89517],"class_list":["post-458303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-andrew-youngblood","tag-angle-bush","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-black-women-in-ai","tag-brain-injuries","tag-chau-nguyen","tag-concussions","tag-cornell-university","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-five-simple-questions","tag-gary-seale","tag-health-science","tag-healthcare","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-joshua-mcginty","tag-kimberly-smith","tag-local","tag-medicine-wellness","tag-michael-adkison","tag-news","tag-sexual-assault","tag-technology","tag-texas-drought","tag-the-secret-group","tag-traumatic-brain-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458303","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=458303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}