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My guest this week is Jason Stanford. His book, which he wrote with authors Chris Tomlinson and Bryan Burrough, is called “Forget the Alamo: the Rise and Fall of an American Myth.” It was published earlier this month by Penguin Press and is an ...

Our show this week is another on the road edition, this one recorded during a town hall for State Rep. John Bucy on the patio at Whitestone brewery in Cedar Park and hosted by the Hill Country News. I got to moderate the conversation. Every tim...

We took our second-ever road trip to the Texas Beer Co. for an in depth conversation with Texas HD52 State Rep. James Talarico. We talked about the good, the bad and the ugly from the 87th meeting of the Texas Legislature, why redistricting is ...

A few weeks ago, I had my cousin on the show to talk about Oran Roberts, the most important Texas you never heard of. As is often the case, especially where conversations with Jon are concerned, we talked about a lot of stuff that didn’t make i...

Our conversation this week is with Denise Rogers, a Central Texas LGBTQ+ activist, about the horrible legislation working through the Texas Legislature. We also discussed what you can do to support this community — even if all you know is that ...

For anyone who knows me, it’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of science fiction … as such, I listened to Gemini mission broadcasts on my transistor radio and glued to my television when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon. Our family toure...

We’re coming up on the anniversary of the of the beginning of the Black Lives Matter protests and rallies which swept our nation last summer after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. So, I called a friend of mine who w...

We thought it was time to try something a little different — record the podcast in front of a live audience.  Our friends at the Texas Beer Company here in Taylor were game and so was our guest, Jesse Ancira. What you’re about to hear...

My cousin, Jon Stone, returns to the program this week for another look at Texas history. Most every body knows the role that Sam Houston played in Texas history. But, few of us know much about the man who ended Houston’s political career. In t...

I stumbled across this conversation with Richard Oppel a couple days ago and was struck by how well it holds up. Since the original podcast was one of our very first, it didn’t reach a very big audience but Rich and I covered some important iss...

My guest this week is Joe Jaworski. He’s an attorney out of Galveston, that city’s former mayor, who tossed his hat in the ring last fall to run as a Democrat for Texas Attorney General. Joe and I talked about his Grandfather, Leon Jaworski, ab...

My conversation with my guest this week was so interesting i had a hard time finding places to cut. So, this time, I let the conversation run. Wayne Mueller and I talked about how Central Texas BBQ became world famous, how difficult is can be t...

My guest this week is a very dear friend of mine. Lisa Drummond is a nurse practitioner at Lone Star Circle of Care. We talked about the transformations the Covid-19 pandemic has wrought on the way health care is delivered, the new community-ba...

My guest this week is State Representative John Bucy. He’s a second-term member of the Texas House from West Williamson County and serves on the House Elections Committee. It’s not surprising that our conversation focused on proposed legislatio...

My guest this week is Wayne Carpenter. Wayne’s a friend of mine from my home town of Belton. Right now, he’s the mayor of that community and has served on the city council for about 20 years. He is also a retired educator, school administrator ...

March second is Texas Independence day. So, to mark the 185th anniversary, I invited Jon Stone to sit in and talk me through the forces at play that influenced the founding of the state. We talked about the power of myth and busted a few, then ...

I wanted this episode to to help give our listeners some context into why a winter storm could knock cold our essential utilities — heat and water — So, after he wrote and posted a terrific Tweet this week, I invited Representative...

MY GUEST THIS WEEK IS TIA STONE. SHE’S THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE GREATER TAYLOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE … SHE’S ALSO MY WIFE SO THIS INTERVIEW GOT INTERESTING AT TIMES. WE TALKED ABOUT WHY IT’S IMPORTANT FOR BUSINESSES TO BELONG TO THEIR CHAMBER...

Scott Braddock is a veteran journalist with more than two decades experience reporting on Texas politics. He sat in this week to talk about how much bandwidth the state legislature might have in this pandemic-influenced environment, the interna...

It's another nerdy show this week! Join me and my guest, Sonia van Meter (@bourbonface on the Twitter) as we jump into the world of Star Trek — particularly season 3 of @discovery but also the rest of the story lines — and weave a bit of curren...

If you watched, and enjoyed, The Mandalorian, you'll love our deep-dive in to Star Wars lore. Warning: spoilers ahead ... the next Ragged Edge podcast, featuring our resident geek, Robert Center. WE TOOK A DEEP, DEEP DIVE INTO STAR WARS LORE TO...

I ASKED MY FRIEND HAROLD COOK BACK ON THE PODCAST TO HELP US WRAP OUR HEADS AROUND THIS … UH, TUMULTUOUS WEEK. HAROLD IS A POLITICAL CONSULTANT AND OFT-QUOTED COMMENTATOR AND I THOUGHT SHARING HIS PERSPECTIVE MIGHT BE HELPFULWE TALKED A...

While I take a couple of weeks to explore some new story-telling formats, here's a re-broadcast of our interview from October with Dr. John Elwood.