Meow Wolf
Meow Wolf is an immersive art and entertainment company that designs and operates interactive art exhibition venues in multiple U.S. cities, including Santa Fe, Denver, Houston, and Grapevine, Texas. Founded in Santa Fe in 2008 as an underground art collective, the company creates large-scale immersive installations and experiences built by collaborating artists and storytellers.www.meowwolf.com
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Nov 1, 2026
MaxGUEST
We did have a pretty cool launch party.
MaxGUEST
Our launch party was at Meow Wolf in Denver.
MaxGUEST
And it's this beautiful, immersive art installation.
MaxGUEST
But we did it really thrifty.
JoshHOST
The murder mystery itself feels kind of like if anyone has done...
JoshHOST
the Meow Wolf experience at Area 15, like there's a mystery and there's a story there, but it's kind of really there for those people who want it.
JoshHOST
And this is kind of like the same thing.
JoshHOST
Like if you wanted to like really do a deep dive and look through papers on the desk and have more conversation with performers to try to figure out what is going on here.
Ryan WarnerHOST
plus climate horror and a little comedy with a top 10 denver fears list
Matt KobosGUEST
number two mushrooms become mandatory and the whole city gets redone by meow wolf Yeah, you think traffic's bad now, wait until people are stopped at the stoplights because they're pretty.
Ryan WarnerHOST
This is Colorado Matters from CPR News and KRCC.
Ryan WarnerHOST
I'm Ryan Warner.
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Matt KobosGUEST
They keep lying about Victor Marx's life.
Matt KobosGUEST
They're like, the movie Boss Baby was actually a biographical film based on Victor's life.
Matt KobosGUEST
Number two, mushrooms become mandatory and the whole city gets redone by Meow Wolf.
Matt KobosGUEST
Yeah, you think traffic's bad now, wait until people are stopped at the stoplights because they're pretty.
Craig CohenHOST
Meow Wolf is, well, unlike any other art installation or museum you might ever come across.
Craig CohenHOST
It's part choose-your-own-adventure, part time machine, and part I don't know how to describe it.
Craig CohenHOST
I'm Craig Cohen.
Craig CohenHOST
Today on Houston Matters, ahead of Meow Wolf Houston's two-year anniversary tomorrow, we broadcast live from the center of the venue and explore the radio station part of the space to find out if it really captures what community and public radio looked, sounded, and felt like 40 years ago.
speaker_1ANNOUNCER
Houston Matters with Craig Cohen is a production of Houston Public Media with support from Baylor College of Medicine.
Craig CohenHOST
Also this hour, will wet weather dampen your Halloween plans, we ask Houston Chronicle meteorologist Justin Ballard.
Craig CohenHOST
Good morning.
Craig CohenHOST
Thanks for joining us here on News 88.7 and on Houston Public Media's YouTube channel.
Craig CohenHOST
Jack, Jessica, Natalie, happy almost Halloween.
Craig CohenHOST
Welcome to Houston Matters, and welcome to Meow Wolf, Houston's radio tape.
Craig CohenHOST
Pretty cool, huh? Real
Natalie ArceneauxGUEST
cool.
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Natalie ArceneauxGUEST
As long as they're in the rocket
Craig CohenHOST
zone.
Craig CohenHOST
As long as we are here at Meow Wolf Houston's radio tape and we have an extra minute or so, I'd just like to know your impressions of the space and how it makes you feel as we head into Halloween tomorrow.
Craig CohenHOST
Jessica?
Robert KerrHOST
And so thank you, everyone, for joining us an hour late.
Robert KerrHOST
And I got my New Mexico United Meow Wolf, which has my own little...
Robert KerrHOST
Halloween character there, but we have some good topics on the way.
Robert KerrHOST
Are American clubs scared of Halloween college soccer reform? Maybe on thin ice with the deadline coming next week and a coalition, Jason, a coalition rallying against it.
Kate O'NeillHOST
What happens when the weird, the handmade, and the immersive become not just art, but a scalable business, a story universe, and maybe even a technology philosophy? Today's guest has been living that question from the inside.
Kate O'NeillHOST
Benz Kadlebek is the co-founder and chief vision officer of Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-born, genre-defying, immersive experience company that has turned maximalist, tactile, deeply story-driven environments into something millions of people can walk through, touch, and get delightfully lost inside.
Kate O'NeillHOST
He's helped guide Meow Wolf from DIY art collective to major cultural force, served as CEO through its growth years, and returned to leadership in a role focused on creative direction and universe building across its expanding worlds.
Kate O'NeillHOST
In our conversation, we talk about what Meow Wolf is actually trying to do artistically, culturally, and commercially, and why nonlinear storytelling is both the magic and the challenge.
Kate O'NeillHOST
and where Vince draws the line between technology that amplifies human experience and technology that hollows it out.
Kate O'NeillHOST
We also get into taste, gatekeeping, absurdity, and what weirdness is for, especially in a moment when reality itself feels increasingly hard to parse.
Vince KadlubekGUEST
It's nice to see you again.
Kate O'NeillHOST
Nice to see you.
Stewart Alsop IIIHOST
So I don't like it just feels like where we're headed is uncharted territory in terms of creativity.
Stewart Alsop IIIHOST
And which is really cool because you've been investing in creativity, particularly inside of Meow Wolf, just like such a iconic out of the box company that is totally in the creative space.
Stewart Alsop IIIHOST
And like the Meow Wolf, that's like the businesses of the future.
Stewart Alsop IIIHOST
They'll be like Meow Wolf.
Stewart Alsop IIIHOST
Do you agree? Do you disagree? Wow.
Stewart Alsop IIGUEST
The gotcha on Meowth is that they build these physical exhibits to give you an experience.
Stewart Alsop IIIHOST
But that's going to become crazy.
Stewart Alsop IIIHOST
In the next five to 10 years, they're going to have so many opportunities to improve that.
Craig CohenHOST
Jared Carroll is our technical director.
Craig CohenHOST
On tomorrow's show, we will broadcast live from Meow Wolf's Houston Radio TAVE.
Craig CohenHOST
The interactive museum celebrates its two-year anniversary with Halloween-themed events this weekend.
Craig CohenHOST
The Fifth Ward interactive art installation takes you inside a sort of choose-your-own-adventure story set at least at first – decades ago in a community radio station.
Craig CohenHOST
We'll also have this week's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, plus conversation with and music by the Houston-based soul funk and blues band Los Soldis.
Craig CohenHOST
I'm Craig Cohen.
Craig CohenHOST
Join us tomorrow from Meow Wolf Houston for those and other Houston Matters.
Robert LambHOST
But there have also certainly been various works, old and contemporary, that attempt to transform a single room into another world, an environment of some sort, a different space.
Robert LambHOST
And certainly, you can go to places like Meow Wolf.
Robert LambHOST
You can go to various art installations at airports.
Robert LambHOST
I can think of one at Atlanta's own Hartsville Jackson, where you're traveling through, you're on the conveyor belt, and oh, it's like you're in a jungle.
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