Episodes

  • Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Saturday - The Room Will Still Be Here

    Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Saturday - The Room Will Still Be Here
    Jun 5 2026
    The room was good. The room did its job. The room will still be here. Cole Harrison comes back to the office on Saturday morning, which he does not normally do, because he wants to be the one to turn the lights on for the last time before the room goes quiet for a while. Travis comes in around eight. Cole did not ask him to. Travis comes because Travis can feel the shape of a moment from across town. Cole tells Travis the truth. The whole point of this was to see if a creative agency could run as a serial. Whether a fictional studio could be built honestly enough, written specifically enough, and automated well enough to read as a real place to anyone watching. It worked. The proof of concept landed. The cast held. The voices held. The shows held. But the maintenance has been heavier than the time he has to give right now. The other work is the work that pays. The other work is the reason he built any of this in the first place. To learn the craft so he could bring the craft back. The shows go on hiatus, not into the ground. If the moment comes when the room is ready to be open again, the room will be open again. If it does not, the season we made stands on its own. Eleven Eleven keeps going. Hope keeps writing. The diary stays. Featured: Cole Harrison, operations. Travis Beaumont. The Marfa Mavericks is a fiction podcast about a creative agency in West Texas. This is the season one finale. The show is on hiatus and may or may not return. Follow the world at @marfamavericks on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction
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    7 mins
  • Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Saturday - The Room Will Still Be Here

    Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Saturday - The Room Will Still Be Here
    Jun 5 2026
    The room was good. The room did its job. The room will still be here. Cole Harrison comes back to the office on Saturday morning, which he does not normally do, because he wants to be the one to turn the lights on for the last time before the room goes quiet for a while. Travis comes in around eight. Cole did not ask him to. Travis comes because Travis can feel the shape of a moment from across town. Cole tells Travis the truth. The whole point of this was to see if a creative agency could run as a serial. Whether a fictional studio could be built honestly enough, written specifically enough, and automated well enough to read as a real place to anyone watching. It worked. The proof of concept landed. The cast held. The voices held. The shows held. But the maintenance has been heavier than the time he has to give right now. The other work is the work that pays. The other work is the reason he built any of this in the first place. To learn the craft so he could bring the craft back. The shows go on hiatus, not into the ground. If the moment comes when the room is ready to be open again, the room will be open again. If it does not, the season we made stands on its own. Eleven Eleven keeps going. Hope keeps writing. The diary stays. Featured: Cole Harrison, operations. Travis Beaumont. The Marfa Mavericks is a fiction podcast about a creative agency in West Texas. This is the season one finale. The show is on hiatus and may or may not return. Follow the world at @marfamavericks on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction
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    4 mins
  • Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Friday - Is This What I Want

    Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Friday - Is This What I Want
    Jun 5 2026
    Is this what I want, or did I just get very good at it? Cole Harrison locks up alone on Friday. The week was good. He made it good, the way he makes everything good - invisible work, no fires because he built the room so the fires don't start. But the question is back. He almost calls Travis. Phone out, name right there. He puts it back. The question isn't ready to be handed to another person yet. It needs to stay his a little longer. He locks the door. Takes the long way home - the stretch where there's nothing but road and sky. Through the office window: Clark's notebook on the desk, still open. Alexis never read it. Cole didn't notice it. But pulling out of the lot, he sees the Wagoneer still parked across the street. Clark is still somewhere in Marfa. Not unusual. Also not nothing. Featured: Cole Harrison, operations. The Marfa Mavericks is a daily fiction podcast about a creative agency in West Texas. New episodes every morning. Listen in order or do not. Follow the world at @marfamavericks on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction
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    4 mins
  • Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Thursday - Tell Me Before You Do It

    Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Thursday - Tell Me Before You Do It
    Jun 4 2026
    Whatever you're thinking, tell me before you do it. End of Thursday. The room mostly cleared. Travis pulls a stool out and sits down across from Clark. Travis says the thing first. He brings up the Dallas piece. He names the consultant. He says: what did you do on Tuesday. Clark answers each thing - yes, I know; the consultant; yes he had a legal pad; a conversation, someone I trust outside the building - and Travis cannot fully tell whether he's being trusted with something or being shown the shape of a decision already made. The "mostly" tension turns: this time Travis is the one who said the thing first. Clark is the one withholding, measured and patient and already a step ahead. "Tell me before you do it." / "I will." That's enough. Whether it's enough is a question for later. Featured: Travis Stone, division head. Clark Edwards, principal. The Marfa Mavericks is a daily fiction podcast about a creative agency in West Texas. New episodes every morning. Listen in order or do not. Follow the world at @marfamavericks on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction
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    4 mins
  • Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Wednesday - The Thing Under the Building

    Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Wednesday - The Thing Under the Building
    Jun 3 2026
    Still heavy. Lighter at one edge. The lake with no name. Eddie Brooks, thirty minutes outside DFW on a county road that turns to caliche, at the end of a dock he's been coming to alone for years. He's been carrying something most of the year. A client that went sideways three years ago - handled wrong, nobody knew but him and one other person who's gone now. He's been building on top of it ever since and he can feel the thing underneath. Raven pulls up at 7:15. He didn't invite her. He also didn't not invite her. She sits beside him without asking what this is. He tells her the shape of it - not all of it, just enough. She doesn't flinch. She asks what he wants to do. He says: I want to be standing in front of it when it comes up. The thing is still there when he gets to the office. But it's changed shape slightly, the way things change when someone who matters hears them and does not look away. Featured: Eddie Brooks, photography. Raven Knight, production. The Marfa Mavericks is a daily fiction podcast about a creative agency in West Texas. New episodes every morning. Listen in order or do not. Follow the world at @marfamavericks on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction
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    4 mins
  • Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Tuesday - He Went Alone

    Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Tuesday - He Went Alone
    Jun 2 2026
    The best seeing is done before you decide what you're looking at. Clark's calendar: External mtg, 8:00 - 9:30 AM, no location, no participants. Clark doesn't tag things external. Alexis mentions it to Rachel in a half-sentence. That's the whole conversation. Between them, in the unsaid space they've built over months, the same shape: not alarm, not conclusion. Just attention given to a thing worth watching. Clark returns before noon. Unremarkable. Asks Cole about Wednesday's shoot. His notebook lies open on his desk with the weight of something added to, not finished. On the way back from the location scout: "He went alone." / "Yeah." End of conversation. Featured: Alexis Parker, strategist. Rachel Donovan, second unit. Clark Edwards, principal. The Marfa Mavericks is a daily fiction podcast about a creative agency in West Texas. New episodes every morning. Listen in order or do not. Follow the world at @marfamavericks on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction
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    3 mins
  • Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Monday - Two Beats Ahead

    Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Monday - Two Beats Ahead
    Jun 1 2026

    He was answering before the questions finished. Monday morning brief. New outdoor apparel client - small New Mexico manufacturer, third-generation family, genuinely good at the thing. The week is organized before it starts. That's Travis. But Clark is two beats ahead of every question, running the whole week in his head while being polite about waiting for the room to catch up. Travis clocks it from the side of his vision. Alexis clocks it too. Both reading the same weather. Clark blocks off Tuesday morning on the shared calendar. An hour and a half. No description. Just the time. Travis doesn't ask. He knows better. Featured: Travis Stone, division head. Clark Edwards, principal. Alexis Parker, strategist. The Marfa Mavericks is a daily fiction podcast about a creative agency in West Texas. New episodes every morning. Listen in order or do not. Follow the world at @marfamavericks on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction
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    3 mins
  • Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Sunday - The First Reading

    Marfa Mavericks: Episode 2, Sunday - The First Reading
    May 31 2026

    beat_scene: outdoor_open, indoor_desk anchor: Clark The second reading is where panic lives. Clark Edwards, back porch, June coming in hot and still. He reads a news item - a Dallas firm sold to a holding company - and sets it face-down. He does not read it a second time. He recognized the consultant. Cynthia's consultant, who sat in the corner of the Marfa office on a Tuesday in April and drew boxes on a legal pad that weren't notes. Clark has a position on what's happening. He hasn't said it yet. A position said too early becomes a stance. A stance is something you can be argued out of. A plan is something you build until it's load-bearing. He needs the week. Featured: Clark Edwards, principal. The Marfa Mavericks is a daily fiction podcast about a creative agency in West Texas. New episodes every morning. Listen in order or do not. Follow the world at @marfamavericks on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction
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    3 mins