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Austin nurses hold vigil for Alex Pretti · Austin Signal

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Local nurses led a peaceful vigil
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last night in Austin for Alex
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Preti, the Minnesota ICU nurse
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shot and killed over the weekend by
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U.S.
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Immigration officers.
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Hear about the latest instance of
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local people protesting ongoing
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Customs and Border Patrol activities
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in Minneapolis.
0:27
Three Austin ISD middle schools
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could get a fifth failing
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accountability rating.
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That means the state of Texas might
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step in to run them.
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Hear about an alternative to that
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and whether or not it worked at
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another ISD Middle School.
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The Austin Signal is a production
0:42
of KUT News, hosted by
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Jennifer Stayton.
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And hear about people who took in
0:48
some canine companions during the
0:50
recent winter storm and an Austin
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comedy show where the comedians get
0:54
heckled on purpose.
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All of that is coming up on Austin
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Signal.
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Stay with us.
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Hi Austin, it's Thursday, January
1:11
29th, 2026.
1:13
This is Austin Signal.
1:15
I'm Jennifer Stayton.
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Nurses at Ascension-Seaton Medical
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Center in Austin led a candlelight
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vigil in front of the hospital last
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night for Alex Preti,
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the Minnesota ICU nurse who
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was shot and killed by U.S.
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Immigration officers over the
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weekend.
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Hundreds of people holding flowers,
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candles, and handmade signs gathered
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in front the hospital.
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In the latest local protest
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opposing ongoing customs and border
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patrol operations.
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Steve Janda is a 72-year-old
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retired nurse from the Austin area.
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I'm here to support
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the nursing staff currently,
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and I wanted, actually what I wanted
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to do was to show people
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that we have
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these young nurses' backs.
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We were working in
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the ERs and various hospitals
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all these years.
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We're retired now, we've passed
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the torch to them, and it's
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just sickening to see what happened
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in Minneapolis to this VA nurse,
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and like I said, that's why I showed
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up. I just wanted to.
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I wanted to show solidarity.
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Preti's death has escalated public
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outcries against ICE operations
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following the killing of another
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Minnesota resident and U.S.
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Citizen Renee Good.
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Customs and Border Protection
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officers initially said Preti
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resisted arrest, and Homeland
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Security Secretary Kristi Noem
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described him as brandishing the gun
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he legally carried.
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But bystander videos show Preti
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holding only a phone when he was
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tackled by officers.
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One vigil attendant last night
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identified herself as a migrant and
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only gave her first name, Elizabeth.
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Before speaking to the crowd.
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She encouraged folks to vote in
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local elections and let their county
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commissioners and city council
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members know they don't want APD
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to support ICE activities.
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When I came to this country, I was
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in love with it, because
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I was raised
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in a bi-legal, bi-cultural
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school in Mexico,
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and I love American values,
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and this is a country that I
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believe in.
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This is the country that a lot of
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the immigrants came to
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ask for refuge.
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You are the people that
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we came seeking for help.
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I knew that you were out there,
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and I'm so honored to know you.
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We've got more on this from health
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reporter Olivia Aldridge, who was at
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the vigil at kut.org
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and we'll have a link to her
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reporting in the show notes.
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Adobe, Burnett, and Webb Middle
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Schools in the Austin Independent
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School District are at risk of
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receiving a fifth failing
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accountability rating this year.
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That would set off events for the
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state of Texas to step in, resulting
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in the loss of local control.
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One way to avoid this,
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moving those three middle schools
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under charter school operations.
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The Austin ISD Board of Trustees is
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scheduled to take this up tonight,
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and if that vote goes through,
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that wouldn't be the first time AISD
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has moved a middle school under
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charter control.
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To hear more about this, we're
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speaking with Acacia Coronado,
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education reporter for Austin
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Current. Acacia, thanks for joining
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us. Thank you so much for having me.
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Alright, so first of all, just
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remind us why might three
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Austin ISD middle schools be
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taken over by charter schools?
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So under state law,
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if a school receives a
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fifth failing accountability rating
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under the state's accountability
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system, the education
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commissioner has the power
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to either close the school or
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appoint a board of managers over the
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entire school district.
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So,
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remind us all.
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So what are these charter
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partnerships supposed to accomplish
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like what's what's the idea behind
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bringing in a charter operation?
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When a charter school is brought in
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to work with a school that
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needs improvement,
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they have two years to
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turn around the school.
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And so what that means is that
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the accountability ratings on those
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schools are paused for two years
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to give the charter school time
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to turn around those schools.
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And what that mean is up to
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the contract between the district
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and the charter administrator
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or external administrator that they
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bring in to help run in those
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schools.
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The turning around mean better
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test scores, better attendance?
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What are the kind of metrics that
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they look at?
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Yeah, so generally for schools that
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are facing this possibility
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of a fifth failing accountability
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rating, one of the main things
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that the operator that comes
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in will work towards is
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improving the school's rating and
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making sure that it gets to a
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passing rating to get
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them out of that loop.
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So this
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This arrangement with a charter
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school has happened before in AISD
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with Mendez Middle School.
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Can you tell us about those years
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when Mendez middle school was
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operated by a charter school?
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How did-
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that go?
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Yeah, so the school district
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actually announced earlier this
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month that they would be wrapping up
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their partnership with Mendez Middle
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School and Third Future because
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Third Future had accomplished the
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goal that they had set out to
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accomplish, which was to get it to
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a B rating by this
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24, 25 school year.
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And so that partnership
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worked out in the way that
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Third Future accomplished the goals
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that they set out accomplish and now
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the district is bringing the school
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back home.
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And did the district learn?
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Do you learn any lessons, do you
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think, from that experience
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with Mendes Middle School about
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having it run by a charter
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organization?
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I think it's important to note that
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all charter or external
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organization partnerships are
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different in running a school.
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It's all very dependent on the
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contract and the expectations that
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are set out by the district
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with the partner organization.
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And in this partnership,
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what we can see is that the goals
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were accomplished and the
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school district is now able
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to look towards how
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they can maintain that rating at
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the school.
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After they bring it back into the
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district.
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All, just remind us what's at
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stake for the three middle schools
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that the board may be voting on
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tonight, Doby, Burnett,
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and West.
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So what's at stake is the future of
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these three middle schools and
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whether they are going to be
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operated by a
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charter or external partner
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organization and whether
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that can actually pause the
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accountability ratings for two years
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and give them a chance to
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get back to a passing rating to
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avoid a potential closure
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or a district takeover.
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Well, I know you're gonna be at that
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meeting tonight and we'll be keeping
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up with your coverage.
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We've been speaking with Acasio
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Coronado education reporter for
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Austin Current, KUT's
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collaborator on the 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 reporting
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at kut.org slash signal
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and in our podcast show notes
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Acasia.
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Thank you so much for talking with
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us today on Austin Signal.
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It's finally starting to warm up
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after the wintriest weather of the
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season so far in Texas,
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and it seems like people in Austin
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and central Texas were pretty
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prepared. You probably saw a video
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of grocery store shelves that were
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pretty much bare, but as KUT's
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Katy McAfee reports, H-E-B wasn't
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the only place in the city that was
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emptied out.
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It's not usually this quiet at
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Austin Pets Alive's shelter on Cesar
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Chavez.
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Normally, the shelter has around 150
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dogs on site.
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Right now, they have 18.
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So it's a...
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Huge drop from what we normally
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have, and we've literally never
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had this few dogs on site before.
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Allison Swearingen is in charge of
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finding the best possible homes for
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dogs at APA.
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She says a week ago, APA set a
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goal to find foster homes for 75
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pets.
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That would make enough space for
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every animal still left at the
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shelter to stay indoors while
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temperatures dipped below freezing.
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One staff member at AP A said, at
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first, that goal felt crazy.
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But within one day, 65 cats
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and dogs were already in foster
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homes. People were lined up
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to take these animals home.
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SwearEngine says the wait time was
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over 2 hours.
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It kind of just was really a whole
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lot of like, here's this dog, do you
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want this dog?
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Because we had so few left at a
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certain point.
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Jamie Gomez is a student at Texas
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State University.
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She drove up from San Marcos last
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week after seeing a post on TikTok.
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I just feel so
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bad for this.
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So I just wanted to do
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something to help,
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and I know it's not much, but it's
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something, so.
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And I love him so bad.
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He was a good dog.
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After a five-hour wait, there were
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only a handful of dogs left.
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Gomez was matched with a large pound
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puppy surprise.
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That's APA's friendly euphemism
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for a mutt.
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His name is Nico.
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And then they brought him out, and
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he was so chill, and his
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eyes, just his face, like
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he was just really, really
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good dog, yeah.
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By the end of the day Friday,
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203 pets at APA were matched
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with foster homes.
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More than double their original
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goal.
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That freed up space for APA to
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accept dozens of animals from
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shelters in San Marcos and Bastrop
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that were at risk of being
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euthanized.
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And Swearingen says the dogs that
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didn't get fostered got quality
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one-on-one time with staff that they
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rarely get.
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Like the entire city basically
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showed up to help dogs that are not
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even their dogs.
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Of the dogs that were fostered over
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the weekend, 40 have now been
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adopted.
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But APA will quickly fill
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up again.
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And they'll likely have to welcome
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back many of the dogs and cats that
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were fostered over the freeze.
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That includes Nico.
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Being a busy college student with
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four roommates, Gomez said she
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couldn't commit to adopting or
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fostering him long-term.
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He really got attached to me, for
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sure.
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I'll probably cry more if I keep
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talking about it.
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But Gomez says if another storm
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hits and APA urgently needs
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fosters, she'll come back for him.
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I'm Katy McAfee in Austin.
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And still ahead on Austin Signal,
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comedians who want to get heckled
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on purpose.
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Yeah, that's a thing in Austin, hear
11:41
about it.
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Still ahead on the Austin Signal.
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I'm Jennifer Stayton and today
11:47
for Jerry Kehano,
11:49
stay with us.
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Welcome back, this is
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Austin Signal.
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There's a comedy show every Sunday
12:06
in Austin where bombing is
12:08
only the beginning.
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As KUT Sean Saldana reports,
12:11
heckling is a rite of passage
12:13
for those who take the stage.
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I want you all to know that this is
12:19
a safe space.
12:20
We've all come.
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Im at The Creek in the Cave on 7th
12:22
Street, preparing to watch Banana
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Film, a comedy show that doubles
12:26
as a form of masochism.
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That's something that we get all.
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There are around a dozen comics on
12:37
the lineup tonight.
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They'll each do one minute of
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material.
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One of the first up is Amybeth
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Castleberry.
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Let's get started.
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Well, they call it scoliosis and I
12:47
call it my backstory.
12:50
Castleberry does her set and it goes
12:51
okay enough, but the real challenge
12:53
comes afterward.
12:55
When the show's hosts and the crowd
12:56
of more than 100 get the chance to
12:58
roast her on stage.
13:00
I know your house smells like books
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and cat pee.
13:05
There is no time limit to this
13:07
portion of the set.
13:08
It goes for as long as the mob
13:10
has jokes to make.
13:12
Piss girl!
13:13
Piss Girl!
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Jokes about race, gender, ethnicity,
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height, weight, age, and
13:20
quality of the material are all on
13:21
the table.
13:22
It is very Lord of the Flies-esque,
13:25
I guess you can say.
13:26
Candice Medina is an Austin comedian
13:27
and the show's creator.
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She designed Bananaphone to be the
13:31
worst case scenario for a comic.
13:33
And if you can live through that,
13:35
you can survive through anything
13:36
that could potentially happen to you
13:38
on stage that could be horrible.
13:39
About a third of the audience each
13:41
week is other comedians, many of
13:42
whom have been on stage before.
13:44
That means most of the time, the
13:46
people heckling are peers
13:47
There's something very
13:49
human about connecting
13:51
with people in
13:53
a way that is love, but
13:55
it's not kindness.
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And when comedians get offstage,
13:59
they often bond and network with the
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people who just harassed them.
14:02
Being a comic is extremely
14:03
isolating, and
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I think in
14:07
certain ways, comedians seek
14:10
this out because it is this
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level of community where you find
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the misfits.
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And the weirdos, and
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none of us are judging.
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Bananaphone is one of the most
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popular.
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Weekly comedy shows in Austin.
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It has a streaming deal and draws
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people in from all around the
14:25
country.
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Like Jamil Linton, who is visiting
14:28
from Los Angeles.
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It's an Austin specific thing in the
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comedy world.
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It'll be her second time on the
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show. So whenever you went up there
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the first time, what were they
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riffing about?
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Mostly me.
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Being Asian.
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Good comedy requires self-awareness.
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As it turns out, getting in front of
14:44
a bunch of drunk strangers who want
14:46
to hurt your feelings is a great way
14:47
of learning what people notice about
14:49
you.
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I wore these boho overalls
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and Candice told
14:54
me that I looked like
14:56
I was doing stand-up comedy for a
14:58
Lamaze class.
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Nick Cox is one of Bananaphone's
15:01
co-hosts.
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He says the only way to survive is
15:05
to accept the things you can't
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change.
15:07
You have to be able to go up there
15:09
and just surrender to whatever is
15:10
going to happen and that's a lot for
15:11
a lot of people.
15:12
It's like ego death, it does teach
15:13
you something about yourself at the
15:15
end of it.
15:15
Most of the heckles you'll hear at
15:17
Bananaphone are incredibly vulgar
15:18
and completely unerrable on
15:20
public radio.
15:22
That means occasionally the crowd
15:23
goes too far and the hosts have
15:25
to step in.
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Like if I ever see someone go up and
15:27
that person's face is clearly
15:28
shifted to like, this is actually
15:30
making them sad and they're not
15:32
enjoying themselves, then I try to
15:33
get them off. Because like, if
15:35
somebody gets upset for real,
15:37
it kind of changes the temperature
15:38
of the room. No one wants people to
15:39
be sad.
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In spite of this, there is no
15:42
shortage of comics who want to be
15:43
booked on the show.
15:45
Each week, around 50 people sign up.
15:47
The show's hosts prioritize people
15:49
who are new to the scene, like Chris
15:51
Winfrey.
15:52
He goes by an interesting stage
15:54
name.
15:55
Right now give it up for
15:56
We're free!
15:56
It's not coming!
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Breathe the Comedian recently moved
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to Austin and has been doing
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stand-up for a year.
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He is a heavier set gentleman,
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which is only relevant for one
16:08
reason.
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Wherever I go, it takes all the 30
16:10
seconds for somebody to talk about
16:12
ozempic.
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And I asked my doc, I said, how
16:14
do I get diabetes so I can get it
16:16
cheaper?
16:17
He said, just give it a minute.
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I got that kind of time, man.
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I'm one brisk jog away from heart
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failure.
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After his set, Freeze receives
16:26
a standing ovation.
16:31
Then the heckling starts.
16:33
And Lord Jesus, I ask
16:35
that you give us an ocean big
16:37
enough to baptize this man.
16:41
Lord, I pray that you help this
16:43
man when he buys extra Oreos
16:45
to add to his already-
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After Freeze gets off stage,
16:48
I ask him about the experience.
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I mean, I was shaking a little bit when
16:51
I first went up, but I mean that's
16:52
just your nerves. That's gonna be
16:53
natural. I have anxiety disorder,
16:54
but I don't let that affect me
16:56
whatsoever.
16:56
Almost all of the jokes the crowd
16:58
made focused on his weight.
17:00
He spent nearly 10 minutes on stage,
17:03
far longer than the average comic
17:04
that night.
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I feel actually really good, man.
17:07
The crowd was great.
17:08
I'm so glad that they chose to roast
17:10
me more than some of the other
17:11
comics, that lets me know they care
17:13
more.
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But I feel good, yeah, I feel great.
17:16
Comedy is cruel.
17:18
The rejection is constant, the pay
17:20
is non-existent, and most comedians
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never break out.
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The only way to survive is to
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find your people.
17:27
Bananaphone helps.
17:28
I just got to Austin so I just want
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to put my mark on and let people
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know I'm here to stay and I'm not
17:33
here to play around.
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Comedians brave enough to go on
17:36
stage come away with thicker skin
17:37
and access to a community.
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All it costs is their dignity.
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I'm Sean Saldana in Austin.
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Okay, is this true for you?
17:51
I know it's true for me.
17:53
I feel like I know people
17:54
that I hear on the radio even though
17:56
I might not have ever met them.
17:58
It's just I feel the reporters and
17:59
hosts are talking to
18:02
me. So it's hard when one
18:04
of them says goodbye.
18:05
And for the next few minutes we're
18:07
going to have one of those goodbye
18:09
conversations.
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Lauren Magocchi has been an
18:11
investigative reporter for the Texas
18:13
newsroom and KUT for about two
18:14
years. You've heard her work here on
18:16
Austin Signal and at other times
18:18
on KUT and on NPR.
18:21
Lauren is leaving for a new
18:22
opportunity.
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But before that, she is stopping by
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Austin Signal to chat, hi Lauren.
18:27
All right, so Lauren, you were a
18:29
print and digital reporter for a
18:30
long time. That's right.
18:32
What drew you to want to work in
18:33
radio?
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Well, I always got
18:36
all of my news, most of my
18:38
news, the bulk of it from radio.
18:40
You know, when you're a newspaper
18:42
reporter and you have to look at a
18:43
screen all day long and read and
18:45
read, and read.
18:46
You don't necessarily want to
18:48
consume news that way.
18:49
And so it's still I
18:52
have the same practice every day.
18:53
I get up and I immediately turn on
18:55
KUT news when I brush my teeth
18:57
and I get to hear Jennifer Stayton.
18:59
Um, and, uh, I
19:01
listen for the entirety of
19:03
the morning through when I'm driving
19:05
into work. And so I always,
19:07
it was always my preferred way
19:09
to get news. And so being able to
19:12
not just work around all of these
19:13
people, I felt like I knew already,
19:15
but learn how to record and
19:17
make stories was really great.
19:18
So you started working in radio and
19:20
what did you think about radio when
19:21
you started working in it?
19:22
Like was it as magical as you
19:24
thought it was going to be?
19:25
I mean, kind of, yeah.
19:28
If you're someone out
19:30
there and you're considering the
19:31
switch to radio, seriously consider
19:33
it.
19:34
I think that it was really cool
19:36
from a technical perspective to be
19:38
able to pick up a new skill in the
19:40
middle of my career.
19:41
I've been doing this for almost 20
19:42
years and having a
19:44
real new skill I learned
19:46
from scratch was amazing
19:48
because you don't always get that
19:49
opportunity to learn something so.
19:52
Like so obviously knew like you're
19:53
like I have this thing I can do now
19:55
that I wasn't able to do two years
19:57
ago. So there
19:59
was that and then you know something
20:00
great about being in radio and
20:03
being connected with NPR and
20:04
Texas Standard and all these
20:05
different kinds of formats is that
20:07
you can do different kinds.
20:09
Sometimes I felt like
20:11
you know in print you get locked
20:13
into you know I'm
20:15
a politics reporter all I do is
20:16
write about this every day and all I
20:17
put words on the page but
20:19
In the last years, I've got to write
20:20
fun stories.
20:21
I've gotten to write silly things.
20:23
I've gone to be on stage for
20:26
ET Explained Live,
20:28
which was just one of the most
20:29
memorable things I've ever done.
20:31
So, Lauren, you've said, as you're
20:32
getting ready to depart, that
20:34
working in radio, you think, has
20:36
made you a better reporter and a
20:37
better storyteller.
20:38
That's right. Talk a little bit
20:39
about that. Why do you think that's
20:41
happened? Well...
20:42
Well, you know, it still happens
20:44
sometimes, but sometimes
20:46
when we're writing about really
20:46
complex things, you can have
20:48
the tendency, and I have the
20:49
tendancy, to kind of fall back on
20:51
really wonky language, like,
20:53
I don't want to get this wrong, so
20:54
I'm going to use this very technical
20:55
term in this written story.
20:58
But you can't go on the radio and
21:00
blurt out some term or
21:02
some acronym that people don't know
21:03
what it means. You have to be able
21:04
to explain things in ways that
21:06
people understand.
21:07
And so I think it made me
21:09
a lot more of a clear writer.
21:12
And it helped me a little bit with
21:14
my voice, you know, just being able
21:15
to think about how I might tell
21:17
a story differently for digital
21:19
versus how it would sing more
21:22
in audio.
21:23
And sometimes I told the same story
21:24
in two completely different ways.
21:27
Use the phrase, write like you talk
21:29
sometimes, writing like you talk.
21:31
So Lauren, you packed a
21:33
lot into the past two years or
21:35
so. Can you just talk a little bit
21:37
about some of the investigations and
21:39
stories you've done that maybe have
21:40
especially stuck with you during
21:42
your time here?
21:43
Sure.
21:44
God, I feel like we've been able to
21:46
do so much.
21:47
I've covered Ken Paxson for a long
21:48
time, did lots of stories on that.
21:51
I continue to cover the conditions
21:53
in Texas prisons, which was
21:56
continuation from my print days.
21:57
I think something new that really
21:59
stuck with me, though, was writing
22:00
more about Elon Musk and
22:03
being able to go down to
22:05
Brownsville where the
22:07
SpaceX rocket launch site is
22:09
and interview people and put their
22:10
voices on the was very
22:12
powerful.
22:13
Just to be able to understand the
22:16
effect on real people living down
22:17
there of this massive facility.
22:19
And so that's probably one of the
22:21
most memorable things for my two
22:22
years. And so Lauren, tell us what
22:24
you are off to do next.
22:26
Where are you headed?
22:27
Oh, sure. I'm going to be joining
22:29
the New York Times.
22:30
I'm not leaving Texas.
22:32
I'm gonna be their first official
22:34
Texas politics correspondent.
22:36
So I will be still in
22:38
Austin writing
22:40
about politics and policy,
22:42
and so I'll be around and I'll
22:44
hopefully still be on the shows if
22:46
you'll have me.
22:48
Yeah, I think we can
22:50
make that happen.
22:52
The Texas newsroom's Lauren Magahee.
22:54
We will miss you, but look forward
22:56
to following your coverage in the
22:58
New York Times.
22:59
Thanks, Lauren. Thank you.
23:06
That is it for today's show.
23:08
Don't forget, you can find more from
23:10
today's show in the show notes,
23:12
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23:14
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23:17
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23:19
Rayna Sevilla is our technical
23:20
director.
23:21
Kristin Cabrera is our managing
23:23
producer.
23:24
Special thanks today to Olivia
23:26
Aldridge, Acacia Coronado,
23:28
Katy McAfee, Sean Saldana,
23:31
and Lauren McGaughy.
23:32
I'm Jennifer Stayton in today for
23:34
Jerry Quijano.
23:35
Austin signal will be back
23:37
at the same time tomorrow.
23:40
Talk to you then.