On today’s Hello Houston, New York Times Texas bureau chief David Goodman breaks down the state’s governor's race, the U.S. Senate race, and the controversy over the thousands of voter registration applications that went unprocessed due to an error at the Texas DPS.

Then, in this week’s Producer Spotlight, Hello Houston producer Laura Walker talks with the founder and owner of Houston's Upstream Fitness and its coaches to find out how they’re using fitness to empower its participants.

In the second hour, Harel Shapira, a sociologist at the University of Texas, discusses his new book, Basic Pistol: Living and Dying by the Gun in America, which looks at how gun owners are taught to think about risk and safety and the role a “good guy with a gun” should play in our society.

And finally, Adam Fetterman, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Houston, talks about a new study that examines how the proximity of food can influence our everyday eating habits.

And, as always, our hosts Tessa Barrera and Ernie Manouse discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including gas prices becoming a major talking point ahead of the midterms, Harris County election officials processing more than 75,000 additional voter registrations after a DPS error, the Paxton-Talarico contest possibly breaking a record for campaign spending in a U.S. Senate election, and more.