dave: thanks for tuning in, everyone. you re listening to 93.5 krts, marfa public radio. sandro: this is where the mexican people end up living once they leave their adobes. the projects. the low-income housing. hola, ramona. como estas? dos burritos, por favor.
dave: i ve been on the radio now for ten years. ten years every week, and he s been on the radio for what now, three? primo: three or four years. anthony: restaurant business? dave: i have a burger and taco joint that s open on weekends. dave: burger time. anthony: a lot of multitasking around here. people tend to dave: you have to. anthony: you have to? dave: yeah, every job here pays $10 an hour, whether you re the attorney or the barista or the janitor. so you re going to have to work a lot of different jobs to make it because it s expensive to live here. anthony: right. it s a small town. dave: 1,800 people. anthony: it seems an unlikely place to put in a spanking new public radio station that s heard all over texas, yes? dave: well, that s exactly right. i mean, your expenses for running a 100,000 watt transmitter on top of a mountain that gets struck by lightning every three weeks is pretty tough. but the station has support from pretty much everybody
sha, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la [ radio static ] dave beebe: stick around, radio for wide range from the border to the basin, out here in west texas, great to be here tonight. anthony: the dream of the
nafta. anthony: american parts assembled in mexico come back here. dave: right. that s part of the nafta thing. you can take it, have it here, take it over there, assemble it, bring it back. there s no tax. anthony: right. dave: it s definitely been good for our community. there s a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you ll see two or three come up the highway today. anthony: and who s buying those things? dave: everybody who s working-class. the manufactured housing is the craftsmen home of the 21st century. anthony: it appears that marfa in particular is going to be a tourist and service economy. there s money flooding in here. it is an irresistible tide is there money trickling down, is it spreading down into the community? dave: we have jobs here. you can get a job here. as i said, everybody makes $10 an hour her
things, he ushered in this entire new world. with the invasion of, you know, gourmet coffee or you know, trained baristas. how did he feel about that? rainer: i mean, my dad made his own coffee every morning, so he wouldn t be that into the fancy coffee available now, but the people who come here now, as long as they re contributing to being a good citizen, it s actually a good thing that people are here. [ spanish radio ] dave: dos carne asada. tambien chili verde.