{"id":8830,"date":"2025-10-17T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:16:08","slug":"hello-houston-october-17-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8830\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston (October 17, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"HelloHello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n

On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Celeste, and Frank are joined by Rania Mankarious<\/a>, CEO of Crime Stoppers of Houston<\/a>, who discusses the growing sex trafficking problem in the city during the show’s first hour.<\/p>\n

Also, in the first hour, we learn about the National Marrow Donation Program<\/a> from Hope Guidry Groves, Vice President of Experience and Product Operations at NMDP, as well as hear from Kenzie Paul, who shares her story as a stem cell transplant recipient fighting an aggressive form of leukemia.<\/p>\n

Then, in the second hour of the show, we hear the latest installment of Frank’s “Friends of Frank<\/a>” series, in which he sits down with Reverend Russell Levenson<\/a>, a major faith leader and spiritual advisor to many, who discusses his new book “Witness to Belief: Conversations on Faith and Meaning.”<\/p>\n

And, as always, Ernie, Celeste, and Frank, talk about the top stories of the day at the top of each hour, including this weekend’s nationwide “No Kings” protests<\/a> and Smucker’s suing Trader Joe’s after accusing the grocery chain of copying their Uncrustables sandwich.<\/p>\n

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