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AISD under investigation for Pride Week celebration · Austin Signal

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The Austin Independent School
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District is being investigated again
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by the Texas Education Agency.
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This time the investigation is
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focused on the district celebration
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last month of Pride Week.
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We're gonna have more about that
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story and the Attorney General is
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a powerful role.
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Governors, senators, and even vice
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presidents got their start as AG.
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Is Ken Paxton next?
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That's coming up on today's show.
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Signal.
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Howdy out there, you are listening
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to Austin Signal.
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It is the final Monday of the
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month, April 27th.
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I'm your host, Jerry Kekano.
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Thank you for kicking off the week
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here with community-powered
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public radio.
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This is KUT News.
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State officials announced last week
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an investigation of Austin ISD
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over the district celebration of
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Pride Week.
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It follows a complaint from
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conservative state Board of
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Education member Brandon Hall from
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the Fort Worth area.
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Greta Diaz-Gonzalez-Vasquez is
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here to tell us more.
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She is KUT's education reporter.
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Good afternoon, Greta.
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Hi Jerry!
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So first, can you tell us a bit
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about Austin ISD's Pride Week
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celebrations and what actually took
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place?
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Yeah, so this is an annual
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celebration, and this year was from
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March 23rd to March 27th,
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and the theme was be you-tiful.
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Beautiful. Be you-Tiful.
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Okay, okay. So the district sent
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guidelines to teachers and families
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in advance, and
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all activities were to happen
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outside instructional time.
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So either before or after school
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or during lunch even, and they
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were all voluntary, all activities
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were voluntary. Okay.
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And so each day had a different
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activity. So Monday students brought
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photos of their families to feel
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proud of themselves.
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Tuesday there were walkie socks to
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show that they were unique.
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And you know, there were other
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activities, another day they were
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encouraged to sit with somebody else
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at lunch to see the diversity
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of schools. And on Friday,
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each grade level were a different
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color. On previous years,
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the district had provided a
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suggested curriculum and distributed
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even like they had even distributed
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swag but this year they didn't
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and under guidelines officials said
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that this year would look different
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due to a quote ever-changing
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environment.
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Okay, so it sounds like there are
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lots of activities going on, but it
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maybe had been pared down a little
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bit from years past a
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little.
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The investigation appears to have
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been opened because of a complaint
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from a member of the State Board of
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Education.
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Can you tell us more about that, and
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what is he alleging?
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Yeah, so in early March State Board
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of Education member Brandon Hall,
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who represents the Fort Worth area,
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not Austin, said he had concerns
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about AISD breaking the law and,
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quote, indoctrinating students by
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celebrating Pride Week.
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He went as far as to say that AISC
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needed to be defunded and that
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Superintendent Matias Segura needed
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to have to be criminally
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investigated.
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Here he is talking about AIST with
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the conservative nonprofit Texas
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Values that was back in March.
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Instead of focusing on education,
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they're focusing on gender identity
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and celebrating pride and things
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like that.
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My constituents are very concerned
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about that. I think people across
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the state are.
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We don't stop it in Austin ISD.
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We're going to see a lot more of
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this across the state.
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So we need to make a statement and
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set an example.
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We will not put up with you breaking
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the law.
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Sahal is saying that AISD is
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now complying with Senate Bill 12,
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it was passed last year, and the law
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prohibits diversity, equity and
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inclusion duties that reference
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gender or sexual orientation
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in K-12.
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Okay, so we've heard from Hall.
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What have you heard from AISD so
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far?
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So we reached out to the district.
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And while they confirmed that the
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Texas, Texas education agency
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had launched an investigation
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in March, they didn't comment on the
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matter, but I have to add, Jerry,
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this is not the first time the
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district has come under scrutiny
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this year, and it
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is also not the last, but,
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I will back up.
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I will start from the beginning, or
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at least the beginning of the year.
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In February, Texas attorney general
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Ken Paxton said he had launched an
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investigation after AIU
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students participated in walkouts.
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You might remember this, a high
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school student, mainly high school
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students in Austin,
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walked out earlier this year to
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protest ICE law enforcement.
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Then in March, Paxton also said
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that he had notified the district
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against a complaint regarding SB
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8, which is better known as the
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bathroom bill.
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It forbids students from
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going into bathrooms that are not
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consistent with the sex assigned
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at birth.
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And I said, it is not the last
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time because today Paxton announced
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that he's following up on that
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previous investigation and he
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alleges that a student went into a
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bathroom they shouldn't have had
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at the AISD Performing
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Arts Center.
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So today Ken Paxton is
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saying that he sent out another
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letter to the district asking for
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documents or documentation showing
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that the district is enforcing rules
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consistently across the district.
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He also said that he will continue
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holding AISD accountable and
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ensuring that AISd is complying with
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the law.
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But Jerry, we have not heard what
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has come out of these
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investigations, so we will keep an
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eye out.
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Yes, yes, we will definitely keep an
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eye out. This is just one thing that
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Austin ISD is dealing with
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at the moment.
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You were at last week's school board
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meeting, and we have about a minute
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left. What stood out to you from
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that meeting?
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Yeah, so there were a couple
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of things, Jerry.
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First is that Superintendent Matias
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Segura announced that there wouldn't
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be any more school closures,
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but he did say that the district
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will move on with changing
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boundaries and that this will
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happen in the fall.
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The district will hold community
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meetings. They have already posted
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the dates on their website, but they
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haven't posted the places.
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But if people want to keep up with
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the dates, they can check it out.
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It's also divided by...
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Zones, district zones, so
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people can go to the closest
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meeting that, you know, that
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is best for them.
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They also talked about budget
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cuts and we will keep an eye on that
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because the district has a 181
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million dollar budget deficit
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and they will be making cuts
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and these cuts will potentially or
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very likely impact campuses
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and thus students.
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And so we will
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working on it during May.
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And then it's expected
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to be approved in June and it
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starts in July.
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Alright, that is Greta Diaz Gonzalez
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Vazquez, KUT's education
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reporter, we'll have a link to her
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latest in today's show notes.
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Greta, thank you.
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Thank you, Jerry.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott and
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former Vice President Kamala Harris
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have something in common.
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They both served as their state's
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attorney general.
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I'm sure they have other things in
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common, too.
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KERA's Caroline Love reports their
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time in that role helped launch
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their national political careers,
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and Texas AG Ken Paxton
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hopes that he is next.
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Harris and Abbott aren't the only
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notable former attorneys general who
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moved up into higher office.
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U.S. Senator John Cornyn from Texas
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was also AG.
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So was New York Governor Andrew
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Cuomo and his predecessor,
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Elliot Spitzer.
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Paxton has been Texas Attorney
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General for over a decade.
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Now he's challenging Cornynn in
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the Republican primary runoff
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election.
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A lot of Texas voters have already
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checked the box next to Paxton's
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name on their it more than once.
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Attorney General is a statewide
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office, just like governor or
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senator.
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Thomas Gray says running for AG is
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good practice for campaigning for
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higher office.
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He's a political science professor
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at UT Dallas.
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It's like the backup quarterback has
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already played a bunch of games
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against the first string and has
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shown he can do it.
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The AG role can be a good place
8:19
to build a political profile.
8:21
AGs have flexibility to be more
8:23
creative and less reactive
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than a governor.
8:27
Sometimes something happens in the
8:28
state and the governor has to
8:30
respond, like a natural disaster
8:32
or a mass shooting.
8:34
An AG might file a lawsuit or
8:35
launch an investigation related to
8:37
such an event, but they usually
8:39
don't have to.
8:41
Jashua Blank from the Texas Politics
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Project says AGs can spend
8:45
more time on issues that are
8:46
important to their political agenda.
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They really don't have a lot of
8:50
limits on their ability to
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choose the issues on which they want
8:55
to align themselves.
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And that's a really powerful asset.
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There's no other office in
9:00
state government like that.
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Many of Paxton's lawsuits focus
9:04
on national Republican priorities
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and issues that are important to
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President Donald Trump.
9:09
He filed multiple lawsuits on
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abortion access and gender-affirming
9:13
care for minors, and he
9:15
challenged the 2020 election
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results.
9:18
Focusing on those issues is
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strategic.
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If done right,
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you can sort of
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tick the boxes of the
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constituencies that you will need in
9:28
future. That's Rebecca Dean.
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She's a political science professor
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at UT Arlington.
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Texas has become a leader for
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championing often divisive
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conservative causes at the national
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level with Paxton as AG.
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And he hasn't had to do much
9:43
compromising as the AG of a
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red state.
9:46
That's different from legislative
9:48
seats, like a U.S.
9:49
Senate seat.
9:50
Cornyn has been in office for more
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than two decades.
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He sometimes has had to work with
9:55
Senate Democrats to get things done.
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Paxton argues that makes him
9:59
the more conservative candidate.
10:02
Gray says Paxton's campaign
10:03
messaging on Cornyn's record goes
10:05
something like this.
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Senator Cornyn compromises.
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Senator Corbyn gives in to
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liberal demands.
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And what A.G.
10:13
Paxton has done is basically never
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give in to that compromise.
10:17
Paxton is leveraging his record
10:19
as attorney general in his Senate
10:21
campaign.
10:22
The candidates who want to succeed
10:23
Paxton as AG could wield the
10:25
office for their own political
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agenda someday, but first
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they need to get elected.
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Blank says that can be challenging.
10:33
Most candidates that they have not
10:34
run statewide find
10:36
themselves bewildered by
10:38
the amount of ground they have to
10:40
cover, the amount money they have
10:42
raised to be able to put up ads.
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Whoever Texans choose as
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their next AG will head a powerful
10:48
office with national political
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influence.
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And they'll have the opportunity to
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wield that power to potentially
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follow a path to a higher office
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like others before them.
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That was KERA's Caroline
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Love.
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We are about to take a break here on
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Austin Signal, but before we
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go, a quick update on a story that
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we shared with you last week here on
11:11
the show.
11:12
Archery club students from Highland
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Park Elementary and Austin, the ones
11:15
who don't barf, well they
11:17
won big over the weekend at the US
11:19
Western Nationals in Salt Lake City.
11:22
The team scored a first place win
11:24
and two students, Madeline
11:26
and John Fox, were named individual
11:28
champions.
11:29
That's Highland Park's first ever
11:30
individual champions at the national
11:32
tournament.
11:33
The school will celebrate with the
11:34
trophy walk on May 10th.
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And in case you missed that story
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and you don't know what I'm talking
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about about the barfing thing, we
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have more at kut.org
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slash signal.
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We have more show after this break.
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Thanks for being with us.
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This is Austin Signal.
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This is Austin Signal, welcome back.
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Last week we told you about how the
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nest of Athena, the great horned owl
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who has for years nested at Lady
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Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, had
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failed.
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One of her outlets sadly died,
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another was rescued.
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That owl is currently being
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rehabilitated at Austin Wildlife
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Rescue.
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Experts are still trying to figure
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out what exactly went wrong
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in this situation, but some clues
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are emerging.
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Luz Moreno Lozano is here.
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She has been following this story
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and she's got the latest for us.
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Howdy, Luz. Hey, Jerry.
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So first off, I'm definitely worried
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about that little owlet.
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How are they doing?
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What's the status there?
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Yeah, you know, I went to visit him
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last week.
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He, I think he's gonna be okay.
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They have really high hopes
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for him.
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When I saw him, it was kind of late.
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He'd already eaten dinner.
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So he was very cozy in his
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little incubator.
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So yeah, I thinks he's going to be
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okay, he's doing well.
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Okay. He's gonna, he's doing well.
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Okay, that's good to hear.
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In case you haven't seen, we have
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some video online at KUT,
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or on our Instagram rather.
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It's the cutest little thing you've
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ever seen.
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Okay, so let's talk.
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Let's go back to Athena and talk
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about her nest.
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You've been speaking with experts.
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What do they have to say about the
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factors that may have caused this
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failure?
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Yeah, you know, I talked with the
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Cornell people who are basically
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running the the the
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camera were running the camera and
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they had a lot of speculation.
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But yeah, Ben kind of talk with us
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about it and you can hear him a
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little bit more and more about this.
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If for some reason he had
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abandoned or disappeared
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for some reason, like an injury,
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that could be one determining
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factor as to why there was a lower
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food supply because the male is
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generally tasked with providing
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most of the food, especially during
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the early window of the nestling
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period.
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Yeah, so okay, so we're learning a
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little bit more obviously, but you
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know, there's been a lot of
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speculation like was he injured?
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Did he abandon the nest?
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Was something happening?
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You know, we've had a lot of rain
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lately, maybe that was a
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contributing factor.
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But yeah, it does sound like if
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something did happen to him, and
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since he is the main food provider
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that that could be a factor.
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Okay, excuse me, there were also
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reports of an injured male owl found
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near the wildlife center.
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Do we know if that was Athena's
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partner or what happened to
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that owl in the first place?
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Yeah, you know, it's hard to say
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if it was her mate.
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They're not tagged.
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And so without, you know knowing
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that, and you know
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all their markings are all very
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similar. So it's hard to see if it's
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him.
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You know, and they're not sure what
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happened. You know this woman who
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I talked to on Friday basically was
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like her name is Suzanne and she was
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like, I was just walking
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by from my home
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office and saw this thing on my
14:35
porch and I was like confused at
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first and then I realized it was an
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owl and he was there for and so
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I had to...
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You know, do something to help them.
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But yeah, she, you know she explains
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that a little more for us and you
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can hear a little bit more about
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that.
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I called 311 and they sent someone
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out to pick it up later that evening
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and I
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had hoped what I understood was when
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they picked it up that it was going
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to go to the Austin Wildlife Rehab
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Center in Elgin and
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that's what I was told that they
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were going to do after they picked
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up either that night or the next
15:08
morning.
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So unfortunately, if you read my
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story already, you know that they
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did pick them up and they took them
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back to the Austin Animal Center
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because it was so late in the
15:18
evening. So that's normal protocol.
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They'll take them back and then in
15:22
the morning, they'll deliver the
15:23
owl, or in this case it was an owl,
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but the animal to the rehab center.
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Well, they got back that morning
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and the owl unfortunately had died.
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Um, I talked with the Austin
15:33
animal center on Friday and
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she told me that his wound
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on his wing was really infected.
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Like it already had maggots
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in it. I mean, he, like, we don't
15:44
know how long he was injured or what
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happened.
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And so she thinks that like, you
15:48
know, they bought him in, they were
15:49
getting ready to take him in and he
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just, you know, couldn't make it to
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the next morning.
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Very sad ending.
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Going back to the outlet who
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was able to survive and hopefully
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has a bright future.
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Yeah.
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What does that future look like?
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Do you know how much time he might
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be spending with Austin Wildlife
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Rescue?
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Yeah, they're thinking probably till
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like July or August,
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raising baby owls, especially great
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horned owls. It takes them a good
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amount of time to like get oriented.
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But if you did read that story,
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you know that he's gonna be placed
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with a surrogate owl, which is very
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exciting. Yeah.
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And this, she's basically a foster
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mom, and she takes care of like
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a dozen babies a year.
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And she just like feeds them and
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raises them and teaches them to be
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an owl.
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And so he'll be placed with her
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until he's ready to be released.
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Okay so a little bit of good news
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to go on and hopefully maybe we'll
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have you back to continue to find
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out what this recovery looks like.
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It would be a pleasure.
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Does this owl have a name yet?
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He doesn't have a name yet.
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I've seen some circulation online
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that they want to name him Phoenix,
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which would be pretty appropriate.
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Um, but obviously, you know, the
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Wildflower Center, if they do decide
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to do that, um, you know,
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they'll, they will decide.
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Okay.
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Alrighty, that is KUT's Luce Moreno
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Lozano. Thank you for the update,
17:01
Luce.
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like the rest of us, it seems
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fleshing those things out for all of
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For more about this, we've got Wyn
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Welcome to Austin SignalWin.
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Thanks for having me.
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So, for a listener who might
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not be familiar with the Field
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Guide, give us a few examples of
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some of the things that KUT has done
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with the field guide so far.
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Yeah, so so far we have a
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field guide to running spots in
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Austin, some great swimming
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holes, you know we have some
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critter coverage going on, so if you
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want to know more about venomous
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snakes in Austin and want to look
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out for, be aware of,
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bobcats, coyotes,
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we also have some history features
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in there, pronunciations, which
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are a big thing.
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A big thing here in Austin and
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across the state of Texas.
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It sounds like it really
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covers your experience or covers
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one's experience here in Austin.
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Is that what you envision the field
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guide being kind of like a handy,
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your one stop guide to everything
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to Austin?
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Yeah, I mean, I think it's exactly
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what you were saying.
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The idea is that whether you were
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born here and raised here or you
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moved here, it's a great way to
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discover and rediscover what makes
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Austin, Austin.
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So, you know, maybe you just need a
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reminder of the great
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things you can do in the city,
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some of the fun happening around
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you, or maybe you're new and you
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don't know where to start and you
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can just dive in.
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Yeah, there's always a discussion
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about, like, who is the authority on
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what Austin is or
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what Austin will be in the future,
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so who are some of the people who
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are writing these field guides?
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Yeah, so one really cool
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thing about this is that we like to
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pair our reporters,
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editors, really anyone in, you
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know, the KUT public media
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stratosphere, I guess,
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of who is really
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passionate about this to write the
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story. So we're looking at people
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who are experts or, you know,
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we have someone who's really into
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running. She wrote the running spot
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one. People who are really
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excited about the
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animals in Austin writing those.
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Yeah, it's, you know, sometimes
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here in journalism, your beat is
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your beat. You can't cover all the
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stories that you want to cover, but
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I've seen a lot of people have fun
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with these field guide entries,
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because it's something that they're
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passionate about as well, so it's
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not only just a guide
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to Austin, but it's coming from an
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expert in that guide, or in
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that field, rather.
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So there was this first run of
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entries into the field guide.
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I understand that there's gonna be
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more coming out.
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Yeah, so we have some new
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stories publishing this week, really
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excited about them.
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One of them is, you know, your entry
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guide to birding in Austin,
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everything you need to know to get
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started.
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There's actually a pretty big
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birding community here, I feel like,
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and there are a lot of people in the
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station who are very passionate
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about the bird.
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I was gonna say, are you talking
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about Austin or are you talking
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about KUT specifically?
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Because it seems as though we have a
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booming population of birders here.
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Yeah, definitely, I mean, definitely
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within KUT.
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People get excited.
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Yeah, there's one about cycling in
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Austin.
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So, you know, maybe you're not super
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comfortable biking on the
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roads here.
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That can help get you to that point
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where you are.
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What else do we have coming?
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We have one about rock
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climbing in Austin, we've one about
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Mexican restaurants to check out.
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Um, we have one coming that
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is eight tips
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from librarians from
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the Austin Public Library on like
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what they think are the most
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exciting things, so a reporter went
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out and talked to them.
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That one's pretty cool.
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There's a wide variety of things
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that you can do at the Public
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Library that people might not know
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about.
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Okay, so that was going to be my
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next question. Have you learned a
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good deal from being the project
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manager of the field guide?
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Oh, totally, you know, I mean,
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I went to school in Austin, but
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you can only learn so much when
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you're a college student.
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So I feel like I've really learned
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more past, you know,
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my little area that I lived in
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when I was in school.
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Definitely even, you know, a
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frequent user of the public library,
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but I still learned things while
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editing these stories.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's funny the person who's
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working on that story sits right
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next to me and so I use the
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library quite frequently as well So
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I'm excited to hear what I
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don't know and you can find lots
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of things that maybe you don't know
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or maybe you just need a little
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Rediscovery of in the field
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guide to Austin We have been
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speaking with Wynn Davis a digital
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editor for KUT and a project
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manager for the field guy to Austin
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we're gonna have a link to the field
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Guide in our show notes, but You
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can also find more at kut.org
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slash field guide win.
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Thanks for your time.
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Thanks, Jerry.
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And thank you out there for spending
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your Monday afternoon here
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with Austin Signal.
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And yeah, definitely check out the
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Field Guide to Austin.
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I've been out to several KUT and
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KUTX events where
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we're meeting lots of people who
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are new to Austin or have been here
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for six months.
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And they're using Google, they're
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their search engine of choice to
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look up all these different things.
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The Field Guide Austin has you
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covered with so much already and
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we'll be bringing you more.
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Again, you can find that in the
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podcast show notes.
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And at kut.org
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slash signal.
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Rayna Sevilla is our technical
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director, Alexa Hart is our
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producer, and Kristen Cabrera is
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our managing producer.
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I'm your host, Jerry Quijano.
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Austin Signal will be back tomorrow.
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We'll talk to you then.