Owner and pitmaster at Austin’s Interstellar BBQ, John Bates, explains how important brisket is to Texas culture.

“Texas barbecue is definitely built around a few key concepts,” he said. “It’s very much driven by offset smokers. Our style is typically very low and slow with a lot of smoke and clean flavors going through the pits. It’s also built on mostly brisket. It’s definitely the most important item in all Texas barbecue.”

Pitmaster at Corkscrew BBQ in Spring, Will Buckman, discusses why he left his career in communications to open the restaurant.

“I was spending a lot of time out in the driveway cooking these things for free to share with friends and family,” Buckman said. “It wasn’t until my wife stepped in because she was fighting for my time that said, you know, you should really be charging for these efforts.”

And Texas Monthly BBQ Editor Daniel Vaughn tells host Baylee Friday what he looks for when he reviews a new restaurant.

“Almost every barbecue joint in the state has sliced brisket, ribs, pork ribs, and sausage. So I usually start there,” Vaughn said. “I’ll ask if the sausage is housemade. If not, I’ll probably look for something else on the menu. Like maybe a smoked turkey, which has gotten a lot more popular in Texas over the last decade.”

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KRLD Morning News anchor Mike Rogers was a new reporter for the station in 1993 and could see Mount Carmel when the fire started.

“I said, ‘Does that look like smoke?’ And everybody turned and looked. And within a few seconds, it was like roaches scattering when you come in and turn on the light in the middle of the night,” Rogers said. “Just everyone taking off to their cars because it was obvious at that point, that is smoke, that is a fire, and this thing was about to come to a horrifying end.”

But how did it come to that? And why did KRLD become central to the story?

The leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, turned out to be a longtime listener of KRLD and told law enforcement if his message was played on the station, he would surrender.

“We played it and, obviously, he didn’t come out at that point because he said that God had spoken to him and told him that instead of coming out, he needed to wait it out,” Rogers said. “And at that point, they all decided to wait it out and they locked the doors and the standoff began. Fifty-one days.”

Therapist Rachel Bernstein, who specializes in cults and hosts a weekly podcast about them called IndoctriNation, told host Baylee Friday that even 30 years later, she thinks these patterns will continue to repeat themselves.

“I think there will always be cults because born into this world will always be people like us who are open, who are wanting to learn, who are wanting to grow, who are a bit trusting because we have no reason not to be in a lot of situations and we’re going to be vulnerable,” she said. “And then there are people also simultaneously born into the world who feel totally entitled to take over someone else’s life.”

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But University of Texas lecturer Chris Aarons tells Baylee Friday a basic necessity helped build Buc-ee’s popularity.

“It’s a business built on porcelain,” he said. “Those bathrooms are really important. That’s what we’re all worried about because we’ve gone into sketchy roadside gas stations where the bathroom is broken.”

It’s not just necessities, it’s size too. In November, Buc-ee’s broke ground on what will be its biggest store yet: a 74,000-square-foot store in Luling, Texas.

“If you’re thinking about how to create a business, create a brand that surprises, delights, and just gives you a sense of wow from walking in. Size helps that,” Aarons said. “Buc-ee’s started in Texas and everything’s supposed to be bigger in Texas.”

Baylee also talked to Buc-ee’s customers to answer the question: Is Buc-ee’s worth the hype?

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But how did Universal Parks decide on a suburb 30 minutes north of Dallas for its new micro-park?

“Frisco has built itself a brand that is recognized now across the country, with projects like The Star and PGA Frisco and those types of things. And this is one that actually they approached us about the project,” Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney said. “They were looking to be in this market and, I know, had kind of searched different sites in adjacent cities, and kept hearing the buzz of Frisco and decided that this is where they wanted to be.”

The park, which will be geared toward children ages 3-11, will occupy 97 acres at the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Panther Creek Parkway. Its footprint is less than one-fifth the size of Universal Orlando and just under half the size of Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington.

“I’m not really surprised that they have decided to take advantage of a theme park industry trend known as micro parks,” theme park expert and journalist Carly Caramanna said. “These are basically smaller-sized footprint parks. They’re not like these mega parks we’re used to. They are intended for a regional audience and they kind of satisfy both needs from a consumer angle and for these major companies.”

Frisco offered Universal $12.7 million in performance-based economic incentives. According to the city, those incentives include $10.7 million in grants for infrastructure, like roads and utilities, and $2 million in tax reimbursements for materials issued over twenty years.

The park is a continuation of the northern expansion of the North Texas region, which includes the passage of the CHIPS Act last year, University of Texas at Dallas associate professor of public and nonprofit management James Harrington said. That piece of legislation is expected to bring jobs to Sherman.

“We’re going to see a lot of jobs, high tech jobs come into Sherman, which is going to expand that growth up from McKinney through Anna, Melissa, Van Alstyne to Sherman. So we’re going to see that,” Harrington said. “And we also just see the tremendous growth that’s happening within Collin County with Toyota headquarters coming into Plano. We’re seeing large investments, in entertainment such as The Star in Frisco, the PGA resort, and Universal Studios. So I think it’s going to continue this growth.”

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Universal Parks & Resorts is owned by NBCUniversal, which also owns NBC 5. Universal Parks & Resorts currently operates theme parks and resort properties around the world including two locations in the United States in Hollywood, California and Orlando, Florida. The company also operates parks in Osaka, Japan, Sentosa, Singapore and Beijing, China.

This episode of Texas Wants to Know examines the future of short-term rentals, especially as they affect neighborhoods with primarily single-family homes. We spoke to Bill France, Dave Schwarte, and Jessica Black from the Texas Neighborhood Coalition. They’ve all been personally affected by short-term rentals in their communities. 

We also heard from community members who shared their perspectives after a shooting at an STR in a Plano neighborhood, and Rachel Berndt from Fort Worth Report discussed a new ordinance on STRs in the city.

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Storm chasers play an integral role in helping meteorologists and the National Weather Service collect data radar alone can’t always provide.

“Until we get some sort of ground truth or a storm spotter or a storm chaser saying, ‘Hey, yeah, tornado warning, that tornado is on the ground.’ Because a lot of the circulations that radar picks up, that does not they don’t reach the ground,” KRLD Chief Meteorologist Dan Brounoff said. “So that’s one of the most valuable things that have as many eyes on the ground looking at the sky as possible.”

The kind of information Brounoff is talking about takes a level of knowledge about the weather beyond just stepping outside and pointing a camera at the sky.

“You’ve got to understand and interpret what the clouds are doing, you know, because inherently you’re going to get into positions where you’re not going to have all this technology,” storm chaser Jeff Stephens said. “And then all you’ve got is your visuals. And that, to me, is learning what clouds or what and not thinking that a scud cloud is actually a funnel. And a funnel is not a tornado. You know, just understand the fundamentals of it.”

Every storm chaser we talked to for this story shared tales of close calls or getting stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. And just about all of them said tornadoes were not their biggest fear.

“The scariest thing is probably big hail. Tornadoes, you can kind of see them in the distance, and you can get out of the way as long you don’t get too close,” storm chaser Joe Bajza said. “But the hail, if you get wrapped up in the hail, it’ll break windows. It’ll crack your windshield. I mean, you get dents in your car.”

But if avoiding the hail and the tornadoes is possible, storm chasers said there’s nothing like seeing what the weather can do.

“There’s definitely adrenaline, especially when you start out and you see the first storm go up and you see the first beautiful structure of the day. It’s exciting. It’s awesome,” storm chaser Jennifer Stark said. “Like I always tell people, when you’re out in the middle of nowhere and you see this beautiful structure, it is absolutely mesmerizing. You cannot take your eyes off of it.”

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On this episode of Texas Wants to Know, host Baylee Friday explores the different avenues of dating and even gets some advice from an expert. She talks to Porschia Paxton, a Lewisville native and a dater on a new show called “Farmer Wants a Wife”, about her experience on the show and what led her to try dating on reality TV.

“I felt like when this opportunity came up, it was literally perfect timing,” Paxton said. “And I had wanted to do something, I don’t want to say crazy, but something out of my comfort zone that was going to help me just put myself out there and meet the kind of guy that I was wanting.”

Darius Darusman, who created his own production company and Houston-based dating show “Panning for Love”‘, explains his unique love story and what motivated him to create a platform for LGBTQ+ and gender non-conforming people to date and look for love.

“I hope people who are both within the community and not part of the queer community can watch this and get a better understanding of what it’s like to be pansexual, what it’s like to be open to love, regardless of gender, regardless of if it’s man, woman, gender non-conforming, that love can be found anywhere and for anyone,” Darusman said.

Relationship expert Eric Wooten gives his perspective on dating in Texas and provides helpful tips for singles looking for a healthy relationship.

“I would say when people are running around kind of emotionally hungry, they’re much more apt to bite into something, a relationship, that is not good for them,” Wooten said. “It’s kind of like when you go to the grocery store hungry, you buy all kinds of crap you would never buy if you went right after dinner.”

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“There’s at least two kinds of Marfa Lights,” Texas State engineering professor Dr. Karl Stephan said. “The first kind is what you can see just about every night. If you go out to the Marfa Lights viewing area by looking south and wait until sunset, it’s these strange little yellowish-white lights that move very slowly, if at all, and flicker somewhat.”

Stephan said over months of nightly viewing, he determined the “first kind” can be attributed to car headlights roughly two dozen miles away from the Marfa Lights viewing area.

But what about the other kind?

“You can’t prove a negative in terms of supernatural phenomena,” he said. “So, you know, I can’t tell them they’re absolutely wrong. But that’s not the most likely explanation I’m looking for. There’s other theories about flammable gases that come out and catch fire occasionally. The trouble with those is these things do not act like flames.”

Some of the other theories revolve around departed spirits.

“That’s kind of like the Mexican folklore version of it is that they’re actually witches that shapeshift and actually it kind of ties into another kind of folklore legend, if you will, where people say that owls are shapeshifting witches and that’s how they keep an eye on you,” said Hector Montemayor-Perez, the news director at Big Bend Radio in Alpine, Texas.

Whatever the cause of the lights, one thing that’s not up for debate is that they attract tourism to the West Texas city of less than 2,000.

“We’ve seen towns that have changed drastically, for better or worse, in other parts of Texas,” Marfa Chamber of Commerce President Abby Boyd said. “And the same thing could happen to Marfa, which is why we try to really be conscientious about what’s happening here and try to make sure that the changes that happen are with us involved in the conversation.”

Boyd is one of many who shares the view that the cause of the Marfa Lights might be better left a mystery.

“I’m kind of a person that’s just like comfortable with not knowing things and just accepting them as they are,” said Kelsey Picolo who moved to Marathon, Texas from Biloxi, Mississippi. “But, I mean, you can probably get on Reddit and read for hours about theories and things like that, if that’s what you’re into. But I just think they’re pretty cool.”

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“I mean, we love to carry them. We love to be able to say that we have the Second Amendment that is part of our DNA,” said Alex Del Carmen, dean of the school of criminology at Tarleton State University and director of the Institute for Predictive Analytics in Criminal Justice.

But experts said that doesn’t mean gun owners are free of responsibility to themselves and those around them.

“Any time you use a weapon, you are putting yourself at some both criminal and civil liability,” said North Richland Hills police chief and president of the Texas Police Chiefs Association Jimmy Perdue said. “I mean, you have to make the decision whether that the use of this weapon is going to be viewed legally appropriate and both, you know, ethically appropriate.”

Host Baylee Friday also talked to Leigh Richardson, the founder of the Brain Performance Center in Dallas about the mentality behind carrying a weapon.

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The single biggest reason? Slavery. But there’s nuance to the answer too.

In fact, Deborah Liles, the W.K. Gordon Chair of Texas History at Tarleton State University, says for a brief period after the Civil War, Black Texans had real opportunities — particularly on cattle drives.

“When they first start going up the trail, they get paid the same wages as white cowboys do,” she said. “This is not generally something that we will see. Right? And so, that ability to actually make a living and grow a stock that will add to their wealth is something that is not necessarily thought about as an opportunity for freed Black people after the war.”

Liles said by the late 1870s, opportunities weren’t as prevalent as they once were — a trend that continued through the civil rights movement.

But Amber Sims, the executive director of the nonprofit Young Leaders, Strong City, said she saw a shift after the protests of 2020.

“There are innovative ways in which our community has come together to show pride, to show love in which we have contributed to Texas, to make it what it is today,” she said. “And that makes me really hopeful because that makes me know that the young people that I work with, that the work that I do, can change Texas in a way that includes me, that continues to make me proud.”

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What can the state do to better prepare if this trend continues and why has it stayed so cold for so long three years in a row?

“It depends on the temperature, of course, the road surface temperatures, the track of the upper-level low, and also how much precipitation are we going to have,” KRLD Chief Meteorologist Dan Brounoff said. “And the most important thing besides the temperatures, is how fast is the upper-level low moving? Is it going to cruise across in 24 hours and we’re done? Or does it stall to our west as the storm system did at the end of January and early February?”

As city and county governments prepared for this year’s ice event, the timing of the storm created some problems in its early hours.

“The trickiest part of this last winter weather storm was if you recall, it wasn’t forecast to occur until Monday afternoon. And I’m walking out to my work truck at 6 a.m. and there’s ice,” Denton County Emergency Management Director Eric Hutmacher said. “OK, well, we had a 3:40 a.m. phone call where the forecast was still on track. And then we fast forward to 6 a.m. and actually, the ice hit Tarrant, Parker, and Denton counties, right about 6 a.m.”

Rena Honea, the president of Alliance AFT, said for students, it’s not just days lost in the classroom, but the disruption of routine. Then why not utilize the remote learning tools developed during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic?

“People are just exhausted and they need that time to recoup, although it wasn’t planned,” she said. “I know for educators that I talked to, they were like, I am so grateful to have some time to just be able to relax.”

In addition to the school and business closures across the state, the Austin area experienced major power outages that last for days when trees and power lines fell under the added weight of the ice.

“It’s impractical, theoretically impractical, to make the infrastructure fail-safe, but we have to make them safe to fail,” associate professor civil and environmental engineering at Texas A&M Ali Mostafavi said. “By safe to fail, we mean we have to have a level of disruption that’s tolerable for the community that could be restored within a reasonable amount of time.”

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Redlining is a form of financial discrimination, a term first coined in the sixties that had already been happening to the Black community for years. This discrimination prevented Black people from getting loans and other financial help, which created a domino effect in other parts of their lives.

On this episode of Texas Wants to Know, Baylee Friday talks to Barbara Minsker, a professor at Southern Methodist University. Minsker has done extensive research on how these practices not only affect communities but whole cities.

She also talks to James McGee, the president of Southern Dallas Progress. He gives his perspective on the issue while also sharing what his organization does to assist those in need.

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“If you have a Whole Foods, you’re urban. If you have a Chick-fil-A, you’re suburban. If you have a Dairy Queen, you’re rural. And if you don’t have a restaurant, you’re frontier,” president and CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals, John Henderson, said.

The organization defines a rural hospital as one in a community of fewer than 60,000 people. Henderson pointed to a closure in Bowie as an example of how important hospitals are not just to a city’s health care, but to its economy.

“It wasn’t just that the hospital closed and you lost access and lost 100 or more good jobs. It’s that local sales tax revenue dipped by a third the following year, school enrollment dropped. They went through around a teacher layoffs,” he said. “So you see all those cascading economic impacts that are all negative and harmful to a community.”

Dr. Kristie Loescher, assistant dean for instructional innovation for the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and the academic director for the Healthcare Innovation Initiative, said one of the ways rural hospitals can make smart decisions is by limiting the services it offers.

For example, she pointed to an emergency room. Due to a federal law, a hospital is required to treat any patient who walks through its emergency room doors — whether or not they can pay for services.

“In Austin or Dallas, if a hospital sees a few patients like that, they can absorb it. They can absorb the bad debt. But in a rural situation, they’re living so close to the wire, they don’t have that extra margin to be able to provide the amount of charity care required,” she said.

Host Baylee Friday also speaks with the CEO of Muenster Memorial Hospital, Marion Bruce, about the challenges facing her hospital in recent years.

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“It depends on who you talk to, right? Gov. (Greg) Abbott said when the legislation was signed to improve grid reliability, that he felt everything that needed to be done has been done,” said senior investigative reporter Scott Friedman of KRLD’s media partner NBC 5. “However, there is still some skepticism among the experts who we talked to about whether we would have few problems or no problems if we saw a storm of the magnitude of what we had in 2021.”

Following that storm, regulatory agencies like ERCOT and the Texas Public Utility Commission instituted new guidelines, including winterization standards, for power plants.

Energy consultant and former advisor to the chair of the PUC Alison Silverstein said there are still elements of the grid that could be vulnerable to temperatures like the ones Texas experienced in the days before Christmas, a cold snap that was part of the much larger Winter Storm Elliott.

“We don’t know the degree to which the gas fuel system will hold up and keep all those gas plants running in a longer event than what Elliott was,” she said. “The other thing that we have not done is we have not winterized customers. And the way to protect customers from these kinds of events is much more aggressive energy efficiency.”

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“I think there’s a rational factor and then maybe a not-so-rational factor,” said Dr. Cullum Clark, the director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative. “I think the perfectly rational factor is about the housing market. It is about the fact that housing prices are generally about supply and demand for housing. And the huge influx of people from California and elsewhere in the United States has increased demand for housing a lot in our Texas cities.

“The not-so-rational argument is that when when you talk about people saying, ‘Don’t California, my Texas,’ is that people coming will dramatically change the, you know, the culture of Texas or change the political patterns of the state. And the evidence just isn’t there yet.”

The population of Texas eclipsed 30 million people late last year, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, joining the Golden State as the only state with at least 30 million residents.

According to a study a 2021 study by the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M, one in every 10 new Texas residents comes from California. One of them cited a number of reasons for her move.

“It’s frustrating to just have to be in a place to watch people vote for the same — just to continue on with the same problems to make things worse. You know, you can live through it,” Alia Lysiuk said. “If you’re there and you’re single and you’re on your own, you really have to grind to make things work. And I appreciate the push that I got from that. But the issues — and they are political issues — the safety, the homeless, the ever-increasing taxes. It’s definitely hurting a lot of people.”

And it’s not just people, but businesses, that are also making the move. Some of the big-name moves include Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise moving to the Austin area and Charles Schwab to the Fort Worth suburb of Westlake. In this episode of Texas Wants to Know, we also hear from Boingo CEO Mike Finley — another company that recently announced a Texas move.

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Texas Wants to Know set out to find advice on how to manage the stress of the holiday season.

“The turkey might get burned, or someone might fall and break their arm, or the Dallas Cowboys might lose, or something to that effect,” director of the Center for Violence Prevention at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Dr. Jeff Temple, said. “Things are not going to be perfect. And having that flexibility and that adaptability is really important as we get through these pressures of the holiday.”

And while some of the pressures are self-imposed, like the need to make sure the house looks perfect before guests arrive, others might be under the surface.

“We know that these are going to bring up some difficult memories, difficult triggers,” lead mental health counselor at Parkland Health Jeanette Dominguez said. “And so finding a way to prepare and that preparation can be you know, I know this date is coming up and I know this date may bring some sadness, may bring some anger. And so what can I do to manage that for that day?”

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Texas Wants to Know teamed up with the hosts of the Philadelphia podcast, The Jawncast, to try to figure out how the tension between these two cities got so intense.

According to Philadelphia’s 94WIP afternoon host Jon Marks, the city has hated Dallas for so many generations that he can’t pinpoint when it started.

“I just remember at a very young age that you didn’t like the Cowboys. They were the enemy,” he said. “So my kids – right now, my daughter’s 2 or 3 years old and knows ‘E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!’ and you do not root for the Dallas Cowboys.”

In Dallas, though, Bryan Broaddus of 105.3 The Fan said they didn’t always see the Eagles as major competition.

“It used to be the Washington team way back in the day,” Broaddus remembered. “Now the last, say, 20-25 years, it’s clearly the Philadelphia Eagles.”

Eagles fan antics have contributed a lot, too. Broaddus worked as a scout in the past for both the Cowboys and the Eagles at different times, and he remembers some intense games at Veterans Stadium.

“In 1999, it was my first year with the Cowboys,” he recalled. “Michael Irvin, the star wide receiver for the Cowboys, gets hurt. He’s laying on the ground [with a] neck injury. The Eagles fans are booing him laying on the ground and hurt, and you’re going, ‘Man, this is serious here’.”

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Marks acknowledged that Eagles fans have taken it too far sometimes, but he gets a good laugh out of some stories.

“There was one Cowboys game … where they had like a blow-up Cowboys doll,” he said. “And there was this guy who used to bring a chainsaw … he’s chainsawing this blow-up doll, and the chainsaw gets caught and it ends up clipping him. Like, literally, this is how worked up people get before these games.”

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