This episode begins with two stories that seem unrelated—new regulations for food trucks in Waco and a proposed 520-acre data center north of town—but collide once you pay attention to how information spreads locally. What looks like confusion or overreaction is often something else: people trying to orient themselves before anything feels settled.

Local reporting doesn’t just produce facts; it produces a shared reality—and this is about what happens when that reality forms unevenly, late, or not at all.

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At the Performing Arts Community Center (PACC), Russell Campbell’s paintings aren’t shown under spotlights or separated from daily use. They hang on a wall where people go to and from classes, work on laptops, and leave half-finished projects behind them. There’s no signal telling you how to look or what kind of attention the work expects.

This episode considers what happens when art isn’t framed as an event but exists inside a creative space in motion.

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Washington Gallery in downtown Waco has serious art waiting for you. On the surface, it’s simple enough: you see paintings. In practice, the encounter is shaped by pressure about how to look, how to feel, how to say something that proves you were paying attention. Then, art shows up again without ceremony on a utility box at a Waco Drive intersection. Seen once, it’s odd. Seen repeatedly, it becomes familiar, then personal.

This episode explores the difference between art you face once and art you live alongside—and what it means not to stand still long enough to interpret it, but to pass by often enough for meaning to take root.

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Most people only see Waco at 75 miles an hour.

From Interstate 35, it’s a place you pass through on the way to somewhere else—Baylor’s campus, a few landmarks in the distance, gas stations and frontage roads blurring together before you move on.

This episode takes a different route.

Instead of the highway, we follow the 18th Street corridor—moving laterally across Waco, block by block. Neighborhoods shift without warning. Lanes narrow and widen. Signs pile up. Meanings drift. Nothing quite lines up the way it does at highway speed.

This isn’t a tour.

It’s just a different way across town.

And it turns out how you move through Waco changes what it looks like.

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The latest Analog event begins as a night of storytelling in an old grocery store now used by University Baptist Church. On the surface, it’s a handful of speakers taking turns at a mic. In reality, it’s a study of ordinary people trying to make sense of themselves in front of a room willing to listen.

This episode looks at what happens when a community builds a stage out of whatever it has—folding chairs, mismatched lamps, a back room with exposed ducts—and how Waco’s most honest moments often take shape far from places designed to impress.

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Sergio’s Food Truck, once a downtown institution, now sits silent in an alley behind Austin Avenue. And as The Waco Bridge reported, it’s more than the story of another business that’s shut down; it’s a cautionary tale. This episode follows how the arrest and deportation of Sergio Garcia fits into a broader statewide and national pattern. The result? That quiet alley becomes a lens on what Waco notices—or else chooses not to see.

What emerges is a portrait of how fast ordinary life can collapse when immigration enforcement shifts—something Charlotte, North Carolina, has already demonstrated—and a reminder that Waco isn’t exempt from the same forces.

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Shorty’s Pizza Shack opening a location in Hewitt should be a straightforward story of expansion, but nothing about it is that simple. Instead, this episode looks at how a Baylor student hangout becomes a family hub the minute it crosses Highway 6. It's not about pizza—it’s about the ways neighborhoods absorb the places we think we already know.

What emerges is a sense of how identity travels, settles, and stays recognizable even when the map around it shifts.

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Waco gets talked about in all kinds of ways—too small, too hyped, too bland, too glossy—and each version clips something essential from the city’s real story. This episode looks past the slogans and the social feeds to examine how those perspectives shape our sense of place and why so many of them end up feeling like shortcuts.

What emerges is an argument for noticing the particular: the imperfect, the local, the stubbornly real. Rather than judging Waco by someone else’s standard, the episode asks what its places—bridges, neighborhoods, food trucks—reveal about who we are and how we choose to see the city we live in.

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