A recent town hall meeting with McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara was billed as a chance for him to explain his department’s new agreement to work with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This episode looks closely at what was said, what went undefined—and why the reassurances offered that night didn’t land for everyone in the room.

What emerges isn’t a prediction for what comes next, but a question about trust and what it means when something presented as “nothing to worry about” demands to be treated as something significant.

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Waco’s Balcones Distilling paused production last summer, but after a recent Saturday afternoon trip to the still-open tasting room, this episode examines what happens when a place continues to operate even after the work that created it has stopped. Rather than focusing on finances or future plans, the visit becomes a way to observe how purpose quietly shifts without being announced.

What emerges isn’t a business postmortem, but a question about form, function, and the uneasy space between what a place claims to be and what it actually does.

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From an early visit to Skellington Curiosities to the premiere of The Dark Overlords of Waco documentary, this story traces the slow construction of a community outside Waco’s norms. For people who don’t neatly fit inside a city’s approved categories, choosing to live without apology widens the gap between visible output and the invisible labor required to keep a scene alive.

What emerges isn’t a clean success story or a cautionary tale, but a pattern of repetition—how momentum takes form, thin outs, and returns in altered form—as people try to create a place that feels like home.

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