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Williamson County Republicans reverse course on countywide voting · Austin Signal

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  The Republican Party in Williamson
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  County has agreed to let voters cast
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  a ballot at any polling location
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  available in the upcoming primary
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  runoff.
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  A move to precinct-specific voting
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  mucked up the process last month for
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  voters in Williamston and Dallas
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  counties.
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  More about why they're reversing
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  course.
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  And rent prices in Austin continue
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  to fall as more units become
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  available and with fewer people
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  moving to the city.
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  Come hear the latest numbers, that's
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  on today's show.
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  The Austin Signal is a production
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  of KUT News, hosted by
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  Jerry Quijano.
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  Plus, it's the last full week of
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  March. That means it's time to catch
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  you up on the best new music that
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  you'll want to add to those
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  playlists.
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  And both Texas basketball teams are
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  still dancing amid the March
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  madness.
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  Come hear how they did it and
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  their chances to keep on dancing.
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  That is up next here on
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  Austin Signal.
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  Howdy out there, and thank you for
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  tuning in to Austin Signal.
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  I'm your host, Jerry Kehannel.
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  It is Monday, March 23rd.
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  Thank you for starting the week with
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  us and for making community-powered
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  public radio part of
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  your day.
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  Vice President JD Vance is arriving
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  in Austin today, potentially
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  creating delays for some drivers
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  caught in road closures for his
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  visit.
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  Closures on Cesar Chavez Street
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  from Red River Street to Brazos
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  Street are expected to last
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  overnight. Until tomorrow morning,
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  so keep an eye out for that.
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  The city is asking drivers to take
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  alternate routes or to take public
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  transportation if possible, and
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  drivers should avoid parking along
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  any part of that route.
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  City officials haven't yet said why
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  Vance is visiting the area.
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  The Williamson County Republican
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  Party has agreed to return to
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  countywide voting for upcoming
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  primary runoff scheduled for May
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  26th.
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  This is after widespread confusion
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  and frustration among many voters
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  required to visit assigned polling
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  places on election
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  day.
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  For more about this story, we are
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  joined by KUT's Williamson County
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  reporter Kaylee Hunt.
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  Howdy, Kaylee.
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  Hey, Jerry.
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  So remind us, why did this change
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  to precinct-specific polling
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  locations happen in the first place,
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  and what was the reasoning from
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  Republican Party officials in
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  Williamson county?
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  Yeah, so the March 3rd primary
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  election actually marked the first
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  time in over a decade that
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  voters in Williamson County had to
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  cast their ballots at a
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  precinct-based polling location.
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  Up until that point, they had been
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  using the commonly
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  used countywide voting format
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  on primary elections, and
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  the Williamson county Republican
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  Party officials said that they
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  made that change at the request of
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  the state party leadership.
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  They argue that by
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  doing precinct-based polling
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  locations, elections are
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  more secure and therefore they can
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  be more confident in the results.
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  Okay well how did you see that
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  impact voters in Williamson County
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  specifically back in February
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  on primary election day?
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  Well, you know, Jerry, since it had
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  been over 10 years,
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  since folks had used
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  this precinct based polling
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  system on primary election day,
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  there's a lot of confusion.
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  You know, I spoke to voters of both
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  parties all throughout the day.
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  Many, many people that I talked to,
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  you know, went to their usual
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  polling place only to show up and
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  find out that it wasn't the correct
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  location.
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  It also resulted in a lot
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  of long wait times at
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  locations.
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  Lots of voters I spoke to, including
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  Sonia Hernandez, say they
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  spent more than two hours
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  just looking to vote.
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  And Hernandez actually expressed
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  that frustration to me when I
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  spoke her on primary election day.
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  I don't know, I just kind of felt
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  like it was purposefully confusing.
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  I think sometimes
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  politicians want to make it hard for
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  people to vote.
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  They're counting on people getting
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  frustrated and getting
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  up after a while, or
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  having to get to work and having to
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  kind of drop it and maybe come back
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  to it.
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  And that's just, you know, maybe
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  that's my cynicism, but I
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  was pretty peeved about it.
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  Okay, Kaylee, well now the
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  Republican Party in Williamson
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  County is going back to county-wide
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  voting for the primary runoff.
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  What is their reasoning now?
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  Yeah, well, they say
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  that they heard they heard that
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  frustration and anger among
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  voters.
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  You know, there was a lot
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  of comments made at the following
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  commissioners court meeting just
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  the week after that first primary
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  election day.
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  And yeah, over the weekend,
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  the Williams County Republican Party
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  put out a Facebook post saying that
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  they had agreed to move back to
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  countywide voting that They had
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  heard, they had heard their
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  frustrations.
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  Okay, so what has to happen now for
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  this change to officially go
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  into effect? I read that post that
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  you were talking about on kut.org
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  where the county
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  officials had agreed to go back
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  to countywide voting, but what
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  actually has to happen for that to
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  become a reality?
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  Yeah. So Jerry, if you remember,
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  unlike during early voting or
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  general elections, the county's
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  political parties are responsible
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  for conducting the
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  polling places and the elections,
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  uh, the process on primary
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  election day.
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  And so that includes this
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  upcoming primary runoff in
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  May. And, so basically, to
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  make this change back to countywide
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  voting official, the
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  both Republican, both the Williamson
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  County Republican Party and the
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  Williamston
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  must amend their contracts that they
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  have with the county's elections
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  department.
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  And that is actually expected
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  to happen anytime now.
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  The Williams County Republican Party
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  told my colleague Olivia
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  Aldridge that they had actually
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  already signed that revision on
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  their contract.
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  And there is a special
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  meeting that has actually been
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  called tomorrow after
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  the regular commissioner's court
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  meeting to discuss those changes.
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  All right, well that is KUT's
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  Williamson County reporter, Kaylee
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  Hunt. She will continue following
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  this story, and we'll bring you the
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  latest here on Austin Signal.
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  Kaylee, thank you for your time.
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  A new report shows rent
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  costs here in Austin have continued
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  a downward trend over the last
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  few years.
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  The data show rental housing costs
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  have declined so much that the city
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  is now leading the nation in
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  rent relief.
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  KUT's Luz Moreno Lozano
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  has the story.
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  The data comes from Realtor.com.
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  It shows monthly rents in Austin
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  dropped more than 7% year
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  over year.
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  As of this past February, the median
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  asking rent is $1,357
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  for apartments up to two bedrooms.
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  That's about $100 less than the same
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  time last year, according to the
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  company.
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  The data also revealed that rents
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  have seen a significant decline
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  since costs peaked in September,
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  2022.
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  Joel Berner is an Austin-based
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  economist with Realtors.com,
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  He says rents in the Austin area
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  surged in 2021 and 2022,
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  when more people flocked to the city
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  with flexible work situations.
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  That ignited a building boom.
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  Developers built lots of new
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  apartments to accommodate the
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  demand.
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  Really what happened was there
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  was a lot more supply added to the
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  market in the last couple of years
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  and demand slowed down
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  considerably.
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  We have seen a little bit slower in
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  migration into Austin in the past
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  couple of years than we did during
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  the post-pandemic kind of
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  moving frenzy of 2021
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  and 2022.
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  He says now there are a lot more
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  vacancies.
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  That's a good thing for renters.
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  It gives them more choices and more
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  leverage to negotiate their rent.
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  And so if you have seen your own
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  rent go up, don't be afraid to
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  make a move or at least threatened
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  to make them move, you know, because
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  what we're seeing out there is that
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  landlords are really looking for
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  people to come and fill up some
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  vacancies that we've got across the
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  city right now.
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  And following rents are good news
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  for all renters, including people
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  who might be lower on the income
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  scale.
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  Professor Jake Wegman studies
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  affordable housing at UT.
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  It does actually help
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  people who, even
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  people who can't afford the median
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  rent. It may not help them
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  as much as people
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  who can afford the medium rent.
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  Here's why.
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  Wegmans says if market rate rents
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  are dropping, that means below
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  market rents are doing the same.
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  When the market is softer like it is
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  now, he says landlords are also more
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  open to renting to families with
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  Section 8 vouchers.
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  But some affordable housing leaders
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  say that lots of people are still
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  struggling to afford to live in
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  Austin.
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  Avesta Czar is the executive
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  director of Housing Works, a local
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  affordable housing advocacy
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  nonprofit.
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  So even as housing costs have gone
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  down,
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  Rental housing costs have gone down.
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  We have seen that on the flip
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  side, there are folks who are still
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  struggling quite a bit.
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  Of course, that has a lot to do with
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  incomes being flatlined, job
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  insecurity.
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  There is, of course, a really high
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  cost of living issue that we're
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  dealing with at this moment.
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  It's definitely gotten more
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  affordable for families
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  and households that make above
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  $50,000 a year,
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  but folks with really tight budgets
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  are still really stretched.
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  That's Walter Moreau, the Executive
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  Director for Affordable Housing
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  Nonprofit Foundation Communities.
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  I think it's great
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  that we've had a building boom in
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  apartments and rents have come down
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  and hopefully we can
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  hold on to some of that as long as
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  we can.
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  Overall, rents in Austin are lower
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  than the nation as a whole.
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  Across the country's biggest cities,
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  median rent is around $1,670
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  for an apartment of any size.
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  But the decline in Austin likely
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  won't last forever.
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  Experts say that eventually, the
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  prices will level out.
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  I'm Luz Morana Lozano in
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  Austin.
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  This is Austin Signal, we are
• 10:12
  coming up on a break, but we wanted
• 10:13
  to let you know about a wildfire out
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  in Bastrop County.
• 10:17
  The fire started last night and
• 10:19
  spread over 46 acres through
• 10:21
  Bastrop State Park and prompted
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  evacuations at a nearby RV
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  camping park.
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  No injuries or casualties related
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  to the fire have been reported at
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  this time.
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  Bulldozers were actively patrolling
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  the fire's edge through the morning,
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  according to Texas Parks and
• 10:35
  Wildlife officials, who say the
• 10:37
  blaze has been contained to the
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  state park.
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  The Texas A&M Forest Service is now
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  reporting the fire is 55%
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  contained.
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  We have more about it over at
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  kut.org.
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  You are listening to Austin
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  Signal.
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  We will be back after a break.
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  This is Austin Signal, welcome
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  back.
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  Our sister station, KUTX, had
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  a wild march so far.
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  We still have a few days to go with
• 11:08
  South by Southwest shows at
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  Schultz, at the Rivian.
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  We've got Rock the Park happening
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  this weekend. There's just a lot
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  happening here in Austin.
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  But that doesn't mean that they
• 11:17
  don't have time to keep us up on
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  the latest music out there.
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  Joining me now to talk more is
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  KUTx's Joel Aguillon-Lefargue.
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  Joel, thanks for coming on the show.
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  Yeah, thank you for having me.
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  Okay well this first one we're
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  really excited to talk about because
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  a few of us on the Austin Signal
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  team got to check out this artist at
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  an unofficial DiCicco
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  World Showcase that happened last
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  week. That's Eddie Angel.
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  Tell us a little bit about Eddie
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  Angel and his song.
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  Yeah, Eddie Angel is
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  a local Austinite, an R&B
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  musician.
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  He is branching more into
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  Hispanic music and singing
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  more in Spanish.
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  He brings the music alive
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  in his live performances.
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  He has this really groovy R&
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  B tone.
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  And this latest track, Ballazo,
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  kind of exemplifies that.
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  It's earnest, it's yearning,
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  it is dripping with desire, and
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  really brings those stellar vocals
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  and some soaring guitar
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  riffs to the forefront.
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  And I believe he is set to release
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  music later this year.
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  Yes, uh, he has his upcoming
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  EP, Chica-
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  This next artist is somebody that
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  you and I got to check out together
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  recently at Southby at the
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  Rivian. That is Bayonne.
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  Tell us about their new track.
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  Yeah, Bayon's multi-phase kind
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  of exists in like a liminal space,
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  it feels kind of nostalgic but also
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  kind of something you haven't heard
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  before, it has repetitive synths
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  and like a really like deep subject
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  matter of exploring the multitude of
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  emotions that happen when you lose a
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  loved one.
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  Again he did play at the KUTX
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  Rivian Day Party and has
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  amassed hundreds of streams
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  in the last few weeks since its
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  release.
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  Speaking of deep material,
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  that's what I think about when I
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  think of Bill Callaghan.
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  He's also got a track that is
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  featured on this list.
• 14:03
  What is this new track?
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  This new track kind of like
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  starts off more brooding and
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  deeper and
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  talks about like some really intense
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  stuff but it kind of builds up
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  to a more optimistic
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  and brighter and definitely
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  more layered
• 14:21
  song as the song progresses.
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  Inside me.
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  Trying to claim my body
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  as its own
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  Invader, enslaver
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  Little headstone
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  In this new article
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  out from KUTX, there's six songs
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  featured. We only have time to
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  feature a few of them here on
• 15:05
  Austin's Signal, but this last one,
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  tell us who is the artist in this
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  last
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  This last one is the band of
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  heathens, Take the Cake,
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  they're a band that started off 20
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  years ago and their
• 15:16
  original members Ed Geurde and
• 15:19
  Gordie Quist is
• 15:21
  back with this track, Take The
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  Cake, it's like Southern Fried
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  Americana and
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  they call for listeners to check the
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  rampant materialism and selfishness
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  of the current age.
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  So honey, take a break
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  keep in school.
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  If you love yourself
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  and give a
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  little ground and
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  give it all away,
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  it'll come back around.
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  Joel, what else are you working on
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  over at KUTX?
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  Right now, I am discussing more
• 16:04
  of the new Austin music you need to
• 16:05
  know for this month.
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  So some of the songs that we didn't
• 16:08
  get to talk about today will be
• 16:10
  featured on the KUTX social media.
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  Alrighty, that is Joe Aguilón
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  La Fargue.
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  He is an intern at KUTX
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  and he has been speaking
• 16:19
  with us about the best new songs
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  from March 2026.
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  You can find more at Kutx.org.
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  Joe, thanks for your time.
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  Thank you.
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  So honey, take a break.
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  You can't take any more.
• 16:35
  You can take the cake.
• 16:39
  Well, it was a busy weekend for
• 16:41
  Longhorn sports fans with the second
• 16:43
  ranked baseball team earning a
• 16:44
  series victory over top five
• 16:46
  Auburn. The second ranked softball
• 16:48
  team extending their winning streak
• 16:49
  to 26 and both
• 16:51
  Texas basketball teams advancing to
• 16:53
  the Sweet 16 in this year's
• 16:55
  basketball championship tournaments.
• 16:57
  For more, we're joined by QUT's
• 16:58
  program director, Jimmy Moss.
• 16:59
  Howdy, Jimmy.
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  Howdy. It was a very busy weekend.
• 17:03
  It was indeed.
• 17:04
  Let's start with the men's team
• 17:05
  because I didn't anticipate that we
• 17:06
  were going talking about them.
• 17:08
  Advancing to the round of 16 last
• 17:10
  week.
• 17:10
  Last week. Three layers to get to
• 17:11
  this point. So yeah.
• 17:12
  Yeah, so what's been working for
• 17:13
  them?
• 17:14
  I would say timely,
• 17:16
  what didn't work
• 17:18
  for them down the stretch of the
• 17:19
  season losing five of six and they
• 17:21
  really needed wins to get safely
• 17:23
  into the tournament is now
• 17:25
  kind of there's a yin and yang.
• 17:28
  They always say it evens out.
• 17:30
  Well, now it's evening out because
• 17:31
  now those bounces are going for
• 17:33
  them. Last minute shots against
• 17:35
  North Carolina State.
• 17:36
  Timely shooting in their first two
• 17:38
  rounds and really defeating,
• 17:42
  there are no.
• 17:44
  There are no perfect
• 17:45
  brackets left in any of the major
• 17:47
  services that are servicing millions
• 17:49
  and millions of brackets, CSPN,
• 17:51
  CBS, all those.
• 17:52
  In fact, Texas'
• 17:54
  win over Gonzaga on
• 17:56
  Saturday night destroyed the
• 17:58
  last five remaining brackets in
• 18:00
  Yahoo Sports.
• 18:01
  And now there are none.
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  So obviously, if you're in
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  a league and you're trying to get
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  points, you're still alive.
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  But Texas isn't going to hurt you
• 18:09
  there unless you had Gonzaga winning
• 18:10
  the championship.
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  Well, the teams that are normally
• 18:13
  bracket busters are considered
• 18:15
  Cinderella's, right?
• 18:16
  These smaller teams that come up and
• 18:18
  usurp the glory from these bigger
• 18:19
  teams. There's a lot of discussion
• 18:21
  over the weekend, at least on social
• 18:23
  media, about the qualities
• 18:25
  of Texas as a Cinderella team.
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  This is one of the more successful
• 18:28
  programs. Not maybe not in
• 18:30
  basketball, but across the sports
• 18:32
  spectrum.
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  Do you see this basketball team as a
• 18:34
  cinderella team?
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  Look, they are not a
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  single sport, this is all we
• 18:38
  care about types.
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  They're not a small college in the
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  middle of the Midwestern
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  plains covered in snow
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  this time of year.
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  It's hard to call them a Cinderella.
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  They are the biggest earning sports
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  athletic department in
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  the country.
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  They're doing actually what they
• 18:57
  probably should be doing year
• 18:59
  in and year out, based on
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  income level, NIL
• 19:03
  level, all of that.
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  But they are the
• 19:07
  lowest seed left in the tournament.
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  And that is saying something.
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  That's not all that common for
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  double digit seeds to make it this
• 19:15
  far. Texas has done it as a double
• 19:16
  digit seed two times prior
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  to now. This is the first time,
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  though, in a long time.
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  Last time was 2007 under Rick
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  Barnes.
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  Okay, so who are they going up
• 19:25
  against next, and what are their
• 19:26
  chances looking like there?
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  Up next, they're playing three
• 19:29
  seed Purdue in San Jose
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  6-10 on Thursday.
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  Purdue is a good offense, a Big Ten
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  school classic,
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  a blue ribbon
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  NCAA tournament type
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  team.
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  They're usually in it or
• 19:45
  in discussions.
• 19:46
  Yeah, competing.
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  And they are three seed.
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  It could very well be that
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  the Cinderella
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  run, if you'd like to call it that,
• 19:57
  or the unexpected
• 19:59
  run of Sean Miller and this Texas
• 20:01
  basketball team could end this
• 20:03
  weekend. However, it's fun while
• 20:05
  it lasts, right?
• 20:07
  And I think most Texas fans
• 20:09
  are probably OK with a second
• 20:11
  weekend elimination.
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  And I don't think a lot of people
• 20:14
  were expecting national championship
• 20:16
  run in the first year of Sean Miller
• 20:17
  with the Texas basketball program.
• 20:19
  Sub. Uh, this note about
• 20:21
  Sean Miller, though, he's been to
• 20:22
  the round of 32, 10 times,
• 20:26
  won the last nine in a row.
• 20:28
  I guess this is 10 in a round, so
• 20:30
  that's a pretty
• 20:33
  solid, like if he gets there.
• 20:35
  You're cooked, so.
• 20:37
  One thing he talked about last week,
• 20:38
  Jimmy, was playing that extra
• 20:40
  game sometimes. It just gives you a
• 20:42
  little bit more momentum.
• 20:43
  A lot of teams in this tournament
• 20:44
  have won two games in a row now.
• 20:46
  His team has won three.
• 20:47
  Maybe there's something to be spoken
• 20:49
  for for that.
• 20:50
  National championship aspirations
• 20:52
  were certainly true for the Texas
• 20:54
  women's team. They secured their
• 20:55
  third consecutive Sweet 16
• 20:56
  appearance over the weekend.
• 20:58
  How good have they been?
• 20:59
  And Madison Booker, how good has she
• 21:00
  been? They're, they're,
• 21:00
  They're doing exactly what you would
• 21:02
  expect in the, I mean, they are
• 21:03
  a number one seed. They are expected
• 21:05
  to make it to a
• 21:07
  return appearance, at least to the
• 21:08
  final four.
• 21:10
  A lot of people, especially after
• 21:11
  their win over South Carolina in the
• 21:12
  SEC tournament, are expecting them
• 21:14
  to do even better, like, you know,
• 21:16
  that kind of raised the stakes a
• 21:16
  little bit for them.
• 21:18
  But they did what you think they
• 21:20
  would do.
• 21:21
  They pounded their first two
• 21:22
  opponents in the opening two rounds
• 21:24
  of the NCAA tournament.
• 21:26
  Madison Booker scored 40 points last
• 21:28
  night and a 100 point
• 21:30
  outing for the Texas team.
• 21:32
  Very impressive.
• 21:33
  And she now
• 21:35
  has the highest point total for any
• 21:37
  player in the NCAA tournament right
• 21:38
  currently. I mean, their game's
• 21:40
  happening as we speak.
• 21:42
  So at any moment, that could be
• 21:43
  broken. But they will now face the
• 21:45
  winner of Kentucky and West Virginia
• 21:48
  later this afternoon.
• 21:49
  They're playing their second round
• 21:51
  game.
• 21:52
  Two opponents that Texas is very
• 21:54
  familiar with. Uh sec and
• 21:56
  former big 12 opponents so um
• 21:58
  there is uh
• 22:00
  no no no chance for those
• 22:02
  expectations to die off as
• 22:03
  they enter their round of 16 next
• 22:05
  weekend
• 22:06
  Yeah, it's going to be another busy
• 22:07
  weekend for Texas sports fans.
• 22:10
  Texas baseball will also be hosting
• 22:11
  Oklahoma this coming weekend for a
• 22:13
  three game series.
• 22:14
  Texas softball hosting Texas A and
• 22:16
  M here in Austin for a three game
• 22:18
  series.
• 22:19
  So shaping up to be another busy
• 22:21
  weekend for Longhorn sports fans
• 22:23
  we can't make
• 22:23
  You can't make the trip though, it's in
• 22:24
  Fort Worth. It's in Ft.
• 22:25
  Worth, that is right.
• 22:26
  191.
• 22:26
  Miles from where we sit right here.
• 22:28
  There it is, and now I believe
• 22:30
  they play on Saturday.
• 22:31
  We don't know their opponent, but we
• 22:32
  know for sure that they're going to
• 22:33
  be playing on Saturday, so you can
• 22:35
  prep for that.
• 22:36
  We have been talking with Jimmy
• 22:37
  Moss, program director for KUT,
• 22:40
  and one of the hosts of the Vamos
• 22:41
  Verdad, the podcast all about Austin
• 22:43
  FC in this season.
• 22:44
  They tied this weekend.
• 22:45
  About the World Cup too.
• 22:47
  We'll get into that a little bit
• 22:48
  later. We got lots to go on this
• 22:50
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