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Nonprofit starts new Austin music industry fund · Austin Signal

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There are about 43,000 people
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experiencing homelessness in Texas,
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and more than 3,000 of them are
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Austinites.
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Find out about the programs and
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services helping people get back on
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their feet here in the city.
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We've got that story.
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And we've all gone down a one-way
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street before, and downtown Austin
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is full of them.
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But it wasn't always that way,
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and soon we could be headed back to
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our old ways of two-way streets
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if a City Commission recommendation
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moves forward.
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The Austin Signal is a production
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of KUT News, hosted by KUT.
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By Miles Bloxen.
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A local non-profit supporting the
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Austin music industry has created a
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new fund.
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Come hear why it was launched and
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what it means for venue staff
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working in the music scene.
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Plus new Austin music that you might
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have missed in the first month of
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2026.
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All of that's coming up on Austin
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Signal. Stay with us.
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Hey Austin, it's Friday, January
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30th. I'm Miles Bloxson.
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This is Austin Signal.
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There are about 43,000 people
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experiencing homelessness here in
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Texas. About 3,200 of
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those folks are in Austin, sleeping
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in cars and shelters or
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on the street on any given night.
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There are a myriad of programs and
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services to help homeless people get
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back on their feet.
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The Texas Standard, Sarah Asch,
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visited an Austin Transitional
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Housing that offers adult
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education classes.
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Let's talk about what we know about
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DNA so far, right?
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Remember, DNA is...
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Generous.
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Right?
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Half the genetic coding comes
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from...
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In a small building off Highway 183
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by the Austin Airport, people
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impacted by homelessness gather
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twice a week for GED classes.
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The classes are hosted at a
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transitional housing facility called
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the Esperanza Community.
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Collin Melton moved in about two
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months ago, but has been attending
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GED courses for even longer.
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Melton turns 49 this year and says,
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it's interesting to be back in a
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classroom after a few decades.
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I'm doing better at it than I
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thought I would, so it's actually
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nice.
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It kind of makes me realize I should
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have done it a long time ago.
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I didn't have to be scared of it,
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you know?
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Melton has also taken some workforce
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training classes, but his main goal
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is to finish the four exams that
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make up the GED, so he is qualified
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for better paying jobs.
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Basically, I won't have doors
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closed, is the whole point.
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I won't have to be worried about,
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you didn't get a piece of paper 20
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years ago, so now you can't
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plan your future.
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This housing facility is run by
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the Other Ones Foundation and
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currently has about 100 residents.
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Vocational Services Coordinator Alex
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Gideon says, the goal is to
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connect people with long-term stable
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housing and gainful employment.
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GED classes are just one tool to
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achieve that, but Gideons says it's
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an important one.
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From, you know, my last role I
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served as an employment specialist
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and I can't tell you how many
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times I helped someone apply to a
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job and we'd get hit with that
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roadblock where you need
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your GED or high school equivalent
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to fill
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out this application and even apply
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to the job.
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Staff at the Literacy Coalition of
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Central Texas started offering these
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classes on site last spring.
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And while none of the students have
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completed the GED yet,
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a few of the 25 enrolled right now
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are getting close.
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Literacy coalition CEO Lisa Stewart
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says one reason this program works
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is because it brings educational
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services to people who are in
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a position to make use of them.
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If a person experiencing
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homelessness has a stable
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housing spot, they have
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a great deal higher success rate to
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complete their GED.
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Statistics bear this out.
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While there is not a lot of data
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about homeless adults working on the
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GED, studies show that homeless
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youth in the K through 12 school
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system struggle to graduate without
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stable housing.
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Not only that, but anyone who drops
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out of school is more likely
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to be homeless in the future.
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So, A, DNA
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analysis takes less time than
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observation?
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No.
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No. DNA take more time than that.
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It's a lot, you're
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coming through a lot of information
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in DNA.
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Carlos Contreras, the GED teacher
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on site, says his goal is
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to break this cycle and help people
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view themselves as lifelong
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learners.
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One of the big challenges with
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adults is really teaching
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them that it's okay to make mistakes
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and it's ok to trip and fall.
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Contreras also emphasizes to his
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students that the skills you learn
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in a GED class also
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help you beyond your workforce
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goals.
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Just giving you those skills in
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everyday life to kind of navigate
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those harder things like
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signing a contract, being able to
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read, you know, what paper is
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in front of you before you make an
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agreement and those things like
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that.
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Contreras brings his own experience
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into the classroom to help students
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overcome obstacles.
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His mom did her GED when he was a
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kid, and he remembers how hard it
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was for her to balance studying and
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life.
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And while attendance can be a
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challenge, especially for students
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who don't live on site or have jobs,
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Contrera says his classes have found
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a way to make it work.
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The way we've kind of structured
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things is we build a learning
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community.
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And so everyone sees the value
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in it. Once they're in and they
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get acclimated, everyone kind
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of really tries to
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help each other out.
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Alex Gideon says the confidence
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Esperanza residents gain when they
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make progress in the classroom is
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a big part of what makes this
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program valuable.
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It's just getting back into the
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learning environment and building
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confidence for people that I can
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do this, I can be successful,
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and this is gonna help me
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in the next step of
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whatever my
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learning journey, whatever my career
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looks like for me.
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Resident Colin Melton says he's
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noticed that confidence in his own
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life.
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I think just realizing that I'm
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actually pretty good at it, you
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know, or better than I thought it
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would be at least, it kind of helps
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to get your confidence up.
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You know, there's things you can do,
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and if you can this, then you can
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probably do other things that you
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didn't think you were going to be
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able to do.
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Once he finishes his GED,
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Melton plans to enroll in Austin
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Community College, which offers free
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classes to students who earn their
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high school equivalency in Texas.
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I'm Sarah Asch for the Texas
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Standard.
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If you're driving around downtown
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Austin right now, I know
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you're probably on a one-way street,
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but did you know those streets
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weren't always one way?
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And now they might go back to
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two-way. That is if a one
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city commission recommendation goes
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through. For more on that and the
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story behind these one-ways streets,
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we're speaking with Andrea Ball.
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Development and growth reporter for
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The Austin Current.
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Andrea, great to have you here
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today. Thank you.
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Yeah, so first of all, I grew up
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here, right? And I remember driving
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on these one-way streets downtown
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and even going the wrong way,
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like once or twice, maybe more.
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We don't have to discuss that right
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now, which was really terrifying,
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but you're telling me they have not
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always been one way.
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They have not.
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So our streets here were
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two ways.
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And then there started to become
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this trend in the 1950s
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when downtowns were very vibrant and
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we became more car-centric.
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And so across the country,
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cities started making things one way
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because they were thinking about
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cars and they were think about flow.
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They were like, oh man, if you have
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to stop for a left turn with
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oncoming traffic, it's gonna be a
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pain. Let's get people flowing more,
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better more.
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Uh, in the seventies, generally
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that's when Austin was like, yeah,
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we should do that too.
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It's a, it's a normal thing.
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But, uh, as we started getting into
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the late eighties, early nineties,
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people started to realize across the
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country that maybe this wasn't the
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best option for them, um,
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but it's never an easy process
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to make people change, well,
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anything in life, but also.
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Of course, so tell us about this
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Austin downtown commission and their
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recommendation that we convert the
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one ways into two ways.
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So the Commission's an advisory
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board. No one has to do anything
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they say.
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I mean, but it's they are there to
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make, you know, studied
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recommendations on what they think
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would be best for a
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pleasant and safe environment
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downtown.
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And so essentially this
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commission studied the
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issue, heard from Safe Streets
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Austin, which is a pedestrian sort
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of friendly advocacy group.
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And what research
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shows is that you
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will have fewer accidents
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in certain places,
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in certain studies.
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And they will show that you get
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fewer accidents because people are
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paying more attention and
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they're not driving as fast.
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Because yeah, like, you know,
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one ways can become raceways
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where you're like, no one's coming
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and no one is making a left.
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I can go as fast as I want.
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Anytime you go downtown, whether
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you're on a two way or a one way.
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It's basically it's faces of death.
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You just don't know what
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danger is lurking.
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What is the commission saying about
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all of this?
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They really just feel like it's
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safer and it's
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a more pleasant experience.
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So they always want to talk
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about making downtown a
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destination where you walk and
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you shop and you vibe
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and have epiphanies.
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And so it's really hard to
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be comfortable if you're sitting
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outside.
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And traffic starts roaring past
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you. And it's like, bah!
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And everybody has to stop talking
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for a minute and then it's silent
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and it's bah again.
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Right. And so that's not fun.
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Also, they think that
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two-way streets, you know, you gotta
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sit at a light or whatever
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and you have a chance to kind of
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look around and be like, I didn't
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know that store existed.
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Take it off.
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In right yeah yeah do we really hate
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one way streets that much because
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you know how I feel already what
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stories are you hearing about this
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Today, my editor said,
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tell them that I had two people
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going up one way streets this
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morning. Oh, wow.
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Yeah, it's difficult.
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If you don't know where you're going
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downtown, you are going to at some
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point make a
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mistake. And I've done it before.
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But there is something also to be
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said for the other side of the city.
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People who may think this is that,
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you know, over recent years, we've
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added more public transit and
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cycling lanes.
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And so if you turn these
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into two-way
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streets, you're losing lanes.
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And so are we gonna still have like
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a big bus lane or a place for
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delivery trucks to go?
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Have other cities done this before
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or is this new?
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No, it's not new.
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It's been happening all over the
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country.
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I think Kentucky was a study
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that I read.
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Is this gonna be something that's
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easy for Austin to do, converting
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all these one-way streets into
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two-way street?
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You know, people talk about it.
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Just paint.
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It's really not just paint, it's,
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you know, you're going to have to
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think about like, well, we
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want to be a public transit, you
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no city.
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So how do I make sure
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that I am making this
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road more accessible?
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There will be probably some
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infrastructure things that they have
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to change not a big thing, but like
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maybe lanes are changing the wrong
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way. Maybe there's curves changing
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the wrong way.
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So but it's it's really
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more mindset people need
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to No.
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Like, okay, that changed.
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So that would probably take some
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education.
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And I mean, we all know how to ride
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down one-way streets
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and we know how ride two-way
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street. So we can figure
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it out, but if we could figure it
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without crAsching into people
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first, that would be most
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acceptable.
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Okay, so we'll keep an eye on what
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the city decides.
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We've been speaking with Andrea
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Ball, development and growth
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reporter at Austin Current,
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KUT's collaborator on Austin Signal,
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and a partner with KUT newsroom
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in covering Austin.
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We'll have a link to her story at
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kut.org slAsch signal
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and in the podcast show notes.
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Andrea, thank you so much for
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talking with us today.
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Truly my pleasure.
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We'll be right back.
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This is Austin Signal, I'm Miles
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Bloxson.
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For decades, mental health care
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services have been available to
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Austin area musicians through the
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Sims Foundation, but in a city built
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around live music, the essential
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role of venue workers in their need
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for health care has increasingly
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come into focus.
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This year, the Sims foundation is
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expanding its support by launching
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a new mental health-care fund,
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specifically for Austin's music
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venue workers.
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To learn more, we're joined by Sarah
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Andrews, who is the Chief
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Advancement Officer.
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For the Sims Foundation.
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Thanks for joining us today, Sarah.
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Thanks for having me.
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Yes, I understand that this fun
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came together in honor of a beloved
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fixture of the Red River
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music scene who passed away
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recently. Can you tell us a little
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bit about Dick Chalmers?
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Sure.
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Well, Dick was a kind of a legend
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in the Red River District.
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He worked there for over 15
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years with multiple venues in the
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area.
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And he was just, you know, a great
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human being who everyone knew,
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who he was a friend to everyone, had
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a great deal of compassion.
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And so when he passed away,
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we just saw this as a real
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opportunity to honor his legacy in
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the music venue space and in our
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music community.
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Because the reality was he actually
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helped does co-create this program
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last year.
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He sounds like such a
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light and a strong advocate for the
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Austin music community, which is
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very much so needed to sustain these
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creatives, right?
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Yes, absolutely.
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He was just a huge
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kind of community-first mindset
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that he brought to the Red River
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District.
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And I don't think there's
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a person in town that
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wouldn't have just wonderful things
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to say about him.
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He was a very big-hearted person.
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I love that.
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Before this fund was created
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venue workers were technically
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eligible for mental health care
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services through sims, but many
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didn't even realize
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laws that they were.
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Correct. So, Sims, we provide mental
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health services to the entire music
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ecosystem.
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So musicians, sound engineers, venue
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staff, anyone that is part of our
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live music culture in Austin is
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eligible for our services.
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But we have found over the years
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that a lot of folks who maybe are
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more on the industry side of the
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work just weren't aware of
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the services that we had to provide.
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And actually, Dick kind of helped
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us.
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Discover this, right?
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We worked with him on an event last
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year, and he was just saying,
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hey, like so many folks that I work
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with really need SIMS, but they
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don't know about it.
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And so as we began to
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explore ways to increase awareness
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about the services that we have
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available, we knew we would also
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need to build sustainability so that
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we could provide the services when
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the demand rises.
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And so that's really kind of how
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this program was born.
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Why do you think people didn't know?
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I think that there are a
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lot of music-centered nonprofits in
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Austin that are really focused on
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musicians and the
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performers.
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Industry professionals are not as
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aware or as educated about
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some of those services as musicians
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are, we've found.
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And what are the
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main priorities of this fund and
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how our venue workers themselves
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involved in shaping and
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informing these new initiatives.
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So one of the things
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that we see a lot with venue workers
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is that they might be uninsured
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or underinsured.
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Venues operate on very thin margins.
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A lot of them do.
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And so they can't provide benefits
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to their staff.
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And so when folks come
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to us in need of mental health care,
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we will connect them to licensed
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providers, help them find the care
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that they need, and then we also
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help them to offset the cost of that
15:34
care. Um, so.
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That's sometimes paying for those
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services if they can't afford it.
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And so we see this
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as a population of the music
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community that is somewhat
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underserved in the sense of
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having the benefits needed to
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fully access the care that they
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need.
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Okay.
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I co-host a podcast called pause
15:52
play and I've had the pleasure of
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speaking with, you know, a lot of
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people that work in venues, venue
15:57
staff who've shared experiences of
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burnout and mental strain of
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affordability and instability.
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How do you hope that a fund like the
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Dick Chalmers fund will help
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like address these realities for
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people?
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Well, I think that's what you
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just said.
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A lot of folks working in venues are
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not earning a lot of money.
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They don't have access to benefits.
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So they are struggling with a lot of
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just day-to-day stressors in life
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that can impact their mental health.
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And so what we want to do with this
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program is to really help them
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address those mental health needs
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and remove the financial barrier to
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them accessing those services.
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That's amazing.
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And what do you want folks to know
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about the Sims Foundation and this
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fund in particular?
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Just that we're here for the
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community, we know that it's a very
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challenging time in our world.
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We know that our music community is
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impacted by a lot of the
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uncertainties financially with
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work, the way the music industry is
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changing.
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And so we are here to help.
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And if you are in the music
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ecosystem and you need mental health
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services, you can always come to us
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and we will help connect you to
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licensed providers who can provide
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that care.
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And then if you are part of the
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Austin community and you love our
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music scene, supporting The Sims
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Foundation just helps us to keep
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this part of our culture alive.
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We've been speaking with Sarah
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Andrews, Chief Advancement Officer
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for Sims Foundation.
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You can find more about the fun and
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reporting from Chad Switecki
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at kut.org slAsch
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artbeat. And we'll include a link in
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the podcast show notes as well.
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Thank you, Sarah.
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Thank you for having me.
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Music is at the heart of Austin,
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known as the live music capital of
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the world.
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The city continues to be a home for
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artists shaping what we hear next.
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There's always incredible new music
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emerging from talented artists right
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here at home.
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So it only feels right to
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spotlight some new Austin music
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you need to know.
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And to help us do that today,
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we have Maile Carballo from
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our sister station KUTX.
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She's here to keep us plugged in
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to what's happening across the local
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music scene.
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Hey Miles, thanks for having me.
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Of course, it's great to have you.
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Now, there is so much music out
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there that it's really hard for me
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to keep up.
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So Maile, can you share like your
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top three local artists
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or tracks that are, like you're
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currently playing right now.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah. So working at KUTX, we get a
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lot of music across our
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desks, of course.
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But for me, a couple of my top three
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songs, it has to start with
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Grace Sorenson's shirt.
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Oh, that's one of my favorites.
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Yeah, she is just a
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star-studded performer in
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all regards.
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For this single specifically, she
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teamed up with the Brooklyn-based
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producer, Ellie BAschkow,
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and it just does not get any
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better than her voice.
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And it's really cool because I'm a
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young person, she's the same
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age as me, and she is just making so
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many waves in the Austin music scene
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already.
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Yeah, so young, so talented.
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She reminds me of like a modern day
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Aaliyah. Oh, totally.
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And has a voice to match.
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So yeah, totally and
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this this song is all about, you
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know The feelings behind a
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shirt with your ex that you still
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have and it's just so
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catchy so perfected It feels
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like something that would already be
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in the Grammys nominated right now
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for me I love that grace putting us
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all in our feels.
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So what else is on your list?
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Yeah, absolutely So changing
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up the scene from R&B.
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We're gonna go a little more shoe
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gaze. I love this band keepsake
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They're they're new to my brain
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and also new to the KUTX
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Airwaves.
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I believe they're an all-female
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shoegaze band, and
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one of my favorite songs that they
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just dropped is called Battle Bots,
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it's super cool.
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And Peter Babb, our digital
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coordinator at KUTx, said
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that it keeps the dream of the 90s
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alive and well in Austin, and
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I'd have to agree.
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I love you
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You took one shot,
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I took two
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And I love the 90s, so hey,
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anything 90s I'm here for.
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Totally. What else is on your mind?
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Yeah, so to round it out,
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I love having a good mix
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of music because that really
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represents Austin and
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Austin is of course
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the live music capital of the world,
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but we also are at the heart of
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country, I would say.
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So two of my favorite Austin
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musicians, Melissa Carper and Theo
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Lawrence, have just teamed up to
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release a couple of songs, but
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Good Luck To Ya is one of my
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favorites. It's just pure hearted,
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charming.
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Country awesomeness, in my
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opinion, and two of the most
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unique voices I would say too, like
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in the current kind of Americana
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swing country revival
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that's happening right now.
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She wrote her number
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on a piece of paper
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Slipped it to me,
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said, call me later
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Well you don't say,
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that's a funny thing
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Just the other day,
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she gave my phone a ring
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Have you seen either of them in
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concert? I don't know if you've been
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to a big country. I have not, but I
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love your top three.
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It's such a good mix.
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Yeah, and it's so Austin.
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So Austin.
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And speaking of that, Theo Lawrence
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is from France, but he's based here
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now, and he regularly plays
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a lot of two-stepping shows and
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stuff at Sagebrush.
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And we are.
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Wrapping up love Austin music
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month for people that don't know
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what that is can you tell us
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Absolutely.
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So Love Austin Music Month is just
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kind of a celebration that
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we we hone in on different musicians
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throughout the month.
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I always feel like it's a year-round
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celebration, especially for us here
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at KUTX.
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And I have a couple ways to
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support outside of just
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listening this month and listening
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to KUTx.
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One thing that I like to do...
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It's carry around a little bit of
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cAsch kind of day to day,
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just in case, you know, tip your
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bartenders,
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tip your sound engineers, maybe.
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We have a lot of very talented
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sound engineers on the signal and
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across the city.
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It's so important to support the
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live music.
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Scene here, especially if we want to
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keep it here, right?
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Totally, totally.
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Well, thank you for talking with me
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today. We've been speaking with
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Maile Carballo of KUTX.
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You can find more about what's
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happening in the Austin music scene
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at kutx.org
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and we'll include a link in
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the podcast show notes page as well.
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Thank you, Miles.
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That's it for today's show.
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I'm Miles Bloxson and special shout
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out to our technical director Jake
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Perlman. Thank you so much for
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tuning in. We'll be back with you on
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Monday and have a great weekend.