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Seven plan documents covering the website JS infrastructure, show theme, caller quality overhaul, cost dashboard, the Alpine relocation, and caller variety plus Devon's search — the record of why the current architecture looks the way it does. Plus the press release draft. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Relocate the Show to Alpine, TX / Big Bend
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**Date:** 2026-05-31
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**Status:** Approved, implementing
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## Goal
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Luke moved to Alpine, Texas. Move the show's world from southern New Mexico
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(Deming/Lordsburg) to the Big Bend region of far West Texas. Callers should come
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from and be familiar with Alpine, Marfa, Marathon, Terlingua, Fort Stockton, and
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the Big Bend area. Devon moves with the show. Silas gets an arc beat that
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relocates The Wellspring to Terlingua.
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## Changes
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### 1. Caller generation — `backend/services/caller_gen.py`
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- `BATCH_SYSTEM_PROMPT` opener: "…radio show in New Mexico" → "…in Alpine, Texas,
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in the Big Bend country of far West Texas."
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- Add a **geographic knowledge block** (real, accurate facts) so callers ground
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themselves in real places instead of generic desert. Towns:
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- **Alpine** — hub (~6k), Brewster County seat, Sul Ross State University,
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mile-high ranching/railroad town, small arts scene.
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- **Marfa** — minimalist-art tourist town (Chinati/Donald Judd, Prada Marfa),
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the Marfa Lights, old ranching families vs. hipster influx.
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- **Marathon** — tiny, the Gage Hotel, east gateway to Big Bend NP.
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- **Terlingua** — quicksilver-mining ghost town, famous chili cookoff,
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river-rafting outfitters, off-grid desert eccentrics, the Starlight Theatre,
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near the Rio Grande / Mexico border.
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- **Fort Stockton** — oilfield/I-10 town to the north, Pecos County, Paisano
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Pete, working-class.
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- **Big Bend** — Chisos Mountains, Rio Grande, dark skies (McDonald Observatory
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near Fort Davis), remote, border proximity, Permian Basin oil money north.
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- Rule: only reference real places/facts; don't invent businesses or landmarks.
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### 2. Whisper prompt — `backend/services/transcription.py`
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Update locale and seed proper nouns: "…a late-night radio talk show in Alpine,
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Texas, in the Big Bend region. Callers reference Alpine, Marfa, Marathon,
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Terlingua, Fort Stockton, and Big Bend."
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### 3. Devon — `backend/services/intern.py`
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Moved with the show. Keep "Communications degree from NMSU" (alma mater);
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"You live in a studio in Deming" → "studio in Alpine."
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### 4. Silas — relocate The Wellspring to Terlingua
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- `~/code/dotfiles/silas/silas.md`: identity location Deming → Terlingua badlands;
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update `arc_state` frontmatter to the relocation; add an Arc Log entry
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(2026-05-31) — post-reckoning fresh start, moving the commune to desert outside
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Terlingua, the move straining the forty members.
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- `data/regulars.json`: update Silas's `job`, `location`, and the
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`stable_seeds.style` "commune outside Deming" → Terlingua. Leave the 6 past
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`call_history` summaries untouched — they happened in Deming; the move is the
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new development.
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### 5. Weather/town-news enrichment — `backend/main.py` (now a real feature)
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The block in `enrich_caller_background()` called `_get_town_from_location` /
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`_get_weather_for_town`, which never existed — silently NameError-ing. Implement:
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- `BIG_BEND_TOWNS`: dict of town → (lat, lon) for Alpine, Marfa, Marathon,
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Terlingua, Fort Stockton, Big Bend (Chisos Basin), Fort Davis, Presidio.
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- `_get_town_from_location(text)`: scan lowercased text for a known town,
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return canonical key (handles "ft stockton"/"fort stockton").
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- `_get_weather_for_town(town)`: Open-Meteo current weather (free, no key),
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WMO weather_code → phrase, returns e.g. "58°F, clear skies".
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- Update town-news query: NM/AZ branch → `f"{town.title()} Texas"`.
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- Wire session base_ctx `weather` (was hardcoded "cool desert night") to live
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Alpine weather, graceful fallback on failure.
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All network calls degrade gracefully (existing `asyncio.timeout` + try/except).
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## Out of scope / left as-is
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- Past `call_history` summaries (genuinely happened in Deming).
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- `main.py:3124` state-abbreviation map (generic, not show-locale).
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