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EPISODE · Aug 7, 2026 · 15 MIN

Tech company’s low-tech sunglasses sell out: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week

from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly from Houston Matters · host Michael Hagerty

A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to a rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of it all.This week, our panel weighs in on these stories: Gov. Greg Abbott pausing new data centers until energy and water usage can be audited The internet search company DuckDuckGo selling out of its sunglasses that do nothing A simple chord change by an organ being a reason for celebration at a German churchOur panel of non-experts this week includes: Charles Kuffner, who writes the political blog Off the Kuff Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine David Branham, professor of political science at the University of Houston-DowntownWatch

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