<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium" src="https://cdn.houstonpublicmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/09105018/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg" alt="A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white" width="1000" height="563" /></p><p>On Tuesday's show: As Houstonians prepare for the holidays, new data shows they're planning to cut spending by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/houston-holiday-spend-deloitte-21221226.php" rel="noopener">11 percent compared to last year</a>, with the average person expecting to spend around $1,600. Yet, despite this local pessimism, online sales during the five-day Cyber Week period <a target="_blank" href="https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/12/adobe-cyber-monday-hits-record" rel="noopener">hit $44.2 billion nationally</a>, up nearly 8 percent from last year. We make sense of those seemingly contradictory trends.</p><p>Also this hour: We get an update on the longstanding nationwide nursing shortage and find out how area universities are responding to a shortage of nursing educators as well.</p><p>Then, we reflect on why former Astros star <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caminiti" rel="noopener">Ken Caminiti</a> admitted he’d used steroids long before anyone else did and the demons that led to his untimely death, which are the subject of a book by journalist Dan Good, called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Through-Pain-Caminiti-Confession-ebook/dp/B09C17ZKJ5" rel="noopener"><em>Playing Through the Pain</em></a>.</p><p>And Houston native director <a target="_blank" href="https://www.alexstapleton.com/" rel="noopener">Alex Stapleton</a> talks with us about her new Netflix docuseries <em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81906780" rel="noopener">Sean Combs: The Reckoning</a>. </em></p><p><b>Watch</b></p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bXyFMSOiEIY?si=9WJwP9qEK3yxstqb&amp;start=247" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>