HeyJaredYour Waco Weekend
Your Waco Weekend isn’t about FOMO. It’s a weekly field report from a small American city in motion, where old storefronts become condos, urban master plans promise relevance, and the past never quite leaves the room.
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Wacomaxxing (opens the original)
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A price tag used to tell you how much something cost. Now? It doubles as a personality test. Pay for food without complaining and you appreciate quality, respect craft, and support local business. If you have a problem with a price, the problem is apparently you—and your cheap tastebuds. Host Mark Long visits Waco’s much-celebrated new Sprouts and encounters a $1.30 organic lemon and ten-dollar-a-pound ground turkey. Then, the comments beneath a photograph of a $97 tray of food from Terry Black’
Howdy Stranger! (opens the original)
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Traveling through Colombia offers abundance: mountain views, unfamiliar birds, cheap beer, and ripe mangos plucked from roadside trees. Waco has something less spectacular but more useful—driving your own car instead of relying on Uber, buying groceries without first rehearsing the transaction in Spanish, and knowing whether a place is really open without consulting three different social media accounts. The difference is not between adventure and boredom. It’s between discovering how another pl
Thank You. Thank You a Lot. (opens the original)
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Fathers and sons can spend years trying to understand each other, usually with all the grace and precision of two drunks assembling patio furniture without instructions. Sons want to live up to their fathers while being terrified they’ll turn into them. Meanwhile, fathers pass down wisdom, damage, bad jokes, and assorted emotional contraband without bothering to label the boxes. In this episode, a 2014 film starring Waco-area country singer James Hand opens a door host Mark Long had been perfect
The Honky Tonk Happy-Hour Wedding (opens the original)
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The wedding industry operates on the sound financial principle that anything involving love should cost roughly three times what it did before somebody said “matrimony.” This episode considers what actually turns a room into a wedding venue—and whether authenticity, personality, and cold beer might matter more than endless meetings with an event planner named Madison. Last October, host Mark Long and his then-fiancée Angela put those ideas into practice at Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon, a gen-u-ine Te
You Know, We're Lucky to Be Alive (opens the original)
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The people closest to us can look at the same situations and see entirely different worlds. A lasting relationship does not necessarily resolve those differences; sometimes it just puts two people together and asks them to keep moving. In this episode, host Mark Long and his wife Angela take a drive along Austin Avenue through Waco’s Uptown, where two mini-roundabouts reveal their opposing assumptions about everyone else on the road. She sees ordinary people cooperating to reach their respective
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