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Court protection for Delta-8 sales is set to expire · Austin Signal

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  A hemp product you might have seen
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  for sale in gas stations and strip
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  malls across Texas could be
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  soon treated as an illegal drug,
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  putting it in the same category as
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  heroin and LSD.
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  What this would mean for the
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  businesses that sell them and the
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  people who use them.
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  And it's the last day of school for
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  students in Austin ISD, meaning it's
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  the last many seniors will ever
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  set foot on campus.
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  Before that, a group of them went
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  back to trace their steps at Dawson
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  Elementary.
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  They'll be the last to do so as AISD
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  plans to shutter the school.
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  More about those stories coming up
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  on today's show.
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  The Austin Signal is a production
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  of KUT News, hosted by
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  Jerry Quijano.
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  And the KUTX Artist of the Month for
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  May has the vocal chops to match the
• 0:50
  spirit of his onstage persona.
• 0:53
  We're gonna chat with Eddie Angel
• 0:54
  about Chicano blues.
• 0:56
  That's up next on Austin
• 0:58
  Signal.
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  Howdy out there, you are listening
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  to Austin Signal, thank
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  you for tuning in to Community
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  Powered Public Radio, this is
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  KUT News, it's Thursday,
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  May 28th, and I'm your host
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  Jerry Kiechanal, glad to be part
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  of your day.
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  A hemp product sold for years in
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  strip malls and gas stations across
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  the state could soon be treated as
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  an illegal drug in the same category
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  as LSD and heroin.
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  It's called Delta-8-THC.
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  And a temporary court order that
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  blocked Texas from banning Delta-8
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  is said to expire tonight at
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  5.
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  But as KUT's Nathan Bernier
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  reports, what that means for
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  consumers and businesses is
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  still unclear.
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  Delta-8 THC can get
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  people high, and it comes from hemp,
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  and hemp is just cannabis that's
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  legal because it has low levels of
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  Delta-9 THC,
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  the plant's main psychoactive
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  ingredient.
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  Most Delta- 8 sold in Texas is made
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  by converting another cannabis
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  compound, known as CBD,
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  using a chemical process.
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  So, after hemp became
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  legal, businesses across Texas
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  started selling Delta-8.
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  And it's popular in part because
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  it's not as strong as Delta 9.
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  Some people call it diet weed or
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  weed light.
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  But in twenty twenty one, the Texas
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  Department of State Health Services
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  said Delta 8 was actually a
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  schedule one controlled substance
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  under state law, putting it
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  in the same category as drugs like
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  peyote, MDMA,
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  heroin and LSD.
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  Hemp companies sued, and they
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  got a temporary injunction that
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  allowed Delta-8 sales to continue
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  for almost five years now.
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  But earlier this month, the Texas
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  Supreme Court sided with the state
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  and set a deadline for getting
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  rid of the temporary injunction that
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  had blocked enforcement.
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  That deadline was today, at
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  5pm, and it's left a
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  lot of people guessing about what
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  it means.
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  We've asked for guidance and
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  we haven't gotten it.
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  Cynthia Cabrera is with Hometown
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  Hero, one of the companies that sued
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  the state.
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  She says their attorneys believe
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  Delta-8 will remain legal for now,
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  even without the temporary
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  injunction.
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  You know, our attorneys were like,
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  you know we've reviewed all the
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  statutes, we've review all the
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  different elements
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  and this is what we believe.
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  That's because they think the
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  Department of State Health Services
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  still has to go through a formal
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  rulemaking process.
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  But the Department is not
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  taking any action now.
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  A spokesperson says they're still
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  waiting for a few legal proceedings
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  to wrap up.
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  Hometown Hero asked the Texas
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  Supreme Court for a second shot at
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  arguing why the temporary injunction
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  should stay.
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  The court said okay and gave them
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  until June 17th to make that
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  argument.
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  But the temporary injunction will
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  still expire for now.
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  Drug policy experts say it's just
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  confusing for consumers and
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  businesses.
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  Even though the Supreme Court ruling
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  said that the state has a
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  legitimate authority to
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  ban Delta 8,
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  there's still no clarification on
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  enforcement on what that's going to
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  look like.
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  Catherine Harris is a drug policy
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  fellow at Rice University's Baker
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  Institute.
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  She says the legal risk for Delta 8
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  consumers could depend on how local
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  police interpret the state's
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  controlled substance schedule and
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  whether prosecutors decide to pursue
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  cases.
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  If you live in a jurisdiction
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  that wants to crack down
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  on Delta A,
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  on hemp products, on marijuana,
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  then I think that you probably
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  do need to be a bit more concerned.
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  It can fundamentally just sort of
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  be unfair in terms of
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  who gets punished for what.
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  In a lot of bigger Texas cities,
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  police don't arrest people for
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  marijuana possession, and that's
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  partly because it's impossible to
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  tell the difference between legal
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  hemp and illegal marijuana without
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  expensive lab equipment.
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  A spokesperson for the Austin Police
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  Department said officers will treat
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  possession of Delta 8 like they do
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  marijuana.
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  That policy directs officers to
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  seize the marijuana and let the
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  person go without charges unless
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  the case is connected to a more
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  serious crime.
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  So for now, many stores and
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  consumers are just waiting for word
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  from the Department State Health
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  Services. The Delta 8 lawsuit
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  itself is not over,
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  even though the Texas Supreme Court
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  overturned the temporary injunction
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  that had allowed for Delta 8 sales.
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  It also said the underlying case can
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  continue in the lower courts, just
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  without that temporary protection
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  from the state's action while the
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  case is decided.
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  I'm Nathan Bernier in Austin.
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  It's the last day of school for
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  Austin Independent School District
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  students.
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  Over the last couple of weeks,
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  teachers, staff, and kids at 10
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  schools have been saying goodbye to
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  their campuses as they will
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  permanently close.
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  Dawson Elementary is among those
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  schools.
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  And earlier this week, as part of a
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  graduation tradition, seniors
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  from across the district got to walk
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  the hallways where their education
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  journey began.
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  KUT's Greta Diaz-Gonzalez-Vasquez
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  has this story.
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  On the last school week of the year,
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  two busses filled with Travis Early
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  College high school seniors park
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  outside of Dawson Elementary.
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  Students fix their red caps and
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  gowns as they get off the bus and
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  into the school.
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  Finally a school that feels good.
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  Once inside the school they peek
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  into the library, walk past the
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  nurse's office and into the
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  cafeteria that still has the same
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  smell as it did when they were
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  students there.
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  In the cafeteria, K-2nd grade
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  students who are having lunch cheer
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  and clap for the seniors.
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  This will be the last class to have
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  a senior walk at Dawson Elementary.
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  Emmanuel Ocampo is one of the
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  seniors, he says the school looks
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  different through his more grown-up
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  eyes.
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  I felt like the school shrunk,
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  I swear I thought
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  the gymnasium was humongous
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  but it's tiny and same with
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  the library, it's really small, it
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  was really interesting seeing how
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  small the school is, I thought it
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  was huge when I was little.
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  Ocampo is the only senior wearing a
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  black cap and gown.
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  He's graduating from Johnson High
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  School in Haysie ISD.
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  He wasn't sure if he was going to
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  make it to his senior walk, but when
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  he learned Dawson was closing,
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  he and his mom decided to make the
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  drive from Buda to Austin.
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  Because I'm on my way out, you know,
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  I'm leaving Austin,
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  you know, so just
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  having the opportunity for a full
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  circle moment, you know, full
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  closure and being able to say bye.
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  Ocampos' grandmother and great-aunts
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  also attended Dawson.
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  His mom, Beverly Acosta, says the
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  school has a special place in their
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  memories.
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  He came here from pre-K through
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  fifth grade, so his only
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  elementary school, and at
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  that time we were going through
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  changes in our family,
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  and so it was really important for
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  me that he have a place that was
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  consistent and safe for him.
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  As Acosta saw Ocampo walk the
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  hallways once more, she couldn't
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  help but think of her son's
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  educational path.
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  It puts in perspective how much
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  she's grown, not just
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  physically and that the space around
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  him now just seems so much smaller,
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  but to know how much he's grown as
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  an individual and a young man,
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  it's pretty
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  special to walk through here and put
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  all that together.
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  Guys, round of applause for the
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  class of 2020!
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  One after another, seniors walk in
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  a line down the hallways decorated
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  with student-created art similar
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  to what they made years ago.
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  Hey, they're graduating from high
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  school, guys.
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  What grade are they going to?
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  They're going to college.
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  They're goi-
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  Younger students stand outside their
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  classrooms.
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  They clap and give high fives to the
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  seniors.
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  Teachers also cheer and greet the
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  former students they recognize.
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  Oh, I'm so proud of you!
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you.
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  One of those former teachers is
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  Susan Torres, who used to teach
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  fourth grade.
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  She's proud to see her
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  former students in full cap and
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  gown. This was their foundation here
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  at Dawson and that we hope that
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  we provided them with a solid
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  foundation when we sent them off to
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  middle school and into high school.
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  But seeing them come back here
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  and walk our holes.
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  I mean, that's just like so
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  rewarding for us as teachers.
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  Almost 80%
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  of the population Dawson serves is
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  economically disadvantaged.
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  Almost 70% are considered at
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  risk.
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  Torres says senior walks are an
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  opportunity for elementary students
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  to feel inspired and know that they
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  can graduate from high school.
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  I do think.
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  Very needed, very much needed,
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  and especially the school that
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  we work in and the population that
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  we mostly serve here.
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  And so I just think that it's
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  something that they can aspire to.
• 9:42
  You know what else for you, Sam?
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  Yes, Ms.
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  Ferguson, I remember.
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  There's some of the first days of
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  school. Miss O'Dwyer over here.
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  As Ocampo walked the school,
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  memories came rushing back.
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  He remembered the classroom where he
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  learned how to draw a star and the
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  carpeted area where kids used to
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  play.
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  He remembered stealing quarters from
• 10:03
  his uncle to buy stickers at the
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  school and trade them with his
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  friends.
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  Some of his first memories happened
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  in these hallways.
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  Ms. O'Dwyer was kindergarten because
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  then I remember, I remember the
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  harsh truth that there was no nap
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  time in kindergarten.
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  That's a very harsh truth.
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  It was terrible.
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  That was like the worst part of
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  going to kindergarten, realizing
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  there was no nap time.
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  I think I cried in my mom's arms.
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  While he learned some harsh truths
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  in Dawson, Okampo also had teachers
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  who supported him and helped him
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  feel like he could tackle anything.
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  This is like when our brains are the
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  most malleable, you know what I
• 10:37
  mean? Our brains are most mushy,
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  most impressionable.
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  So I think, you know,
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  any environment where a little kid
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  is brought up is important for,
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  you now, who they become in the
• 10:48
  future.
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  Overall, Torres says this senior
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  walk is a nostalgic and bittersweet
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  moment.
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  The Dawson community.
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  Our doors are closing.
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  This will be our last graduating
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  class that we'll get to see and that
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  we will get to be a part of even
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  just seeing our littles knowing
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  we're not going to see them go from
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  even like kindergarten all the way
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  through fifth grade and then leave
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  us and then come back and visit us
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  sometimes. You know we're just going
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  to be scattered and that's kind of
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  really sad to think we're going to
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  possibly see these kids anymore and
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  so it's just really sad.
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  Tora says future seniors
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  might still be able to come to
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  Dawson and see it from the outside,
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  but there won't be anybody to cheer
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  for them or younger kids to inspire.
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  They won't get that full circle
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  moment.
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  More than 50,000 acres in
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  the far western hill country will
• 11:44
  soon become one of the biggest state
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  parks in Texas.
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  The state's Parks and Wildlife
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  Department announced this week the
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  acquisition of the parkland, which
• 11:52
  stretches through Edwards and Kinney
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  counties about 150 miles west
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  of San Antonio.
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  Silver Lake State Park will be the
• 11:58
  second largest in the state behind
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  Big Bend Ranch.
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  The newly acquired land has canyons,
• 12:03
  hills, and miles of frontage along
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  the West N' This is River.
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  It also has a 30-acre spring-fed
• 12:09
  silver lake, that's the park's
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  namesake.
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  TPWD says next steps will
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  include collecting public input on
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  how to develop recreational
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  opportunities on the land.
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  Hasn't yet announced an opening
• 12:21
  date, but we'll let you know right
• 12:23
  here on Austin Signal.
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  We'll be back after a break.
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  This is Austin Signal, welcome back.
• 12:32
  The KUTX Artist of the Month for
• 12:34
  May 2026 is as gifted
• 12:36
  a performer as he is a vocalist,
• 12:38
  and he's pretty darn good at both of
• 12:40
  them. Angel Estrada is his
• 12:42
  name, but he is EddieAngel,
• 12:44
  and if you've spent any time
• 12:45
  listening to KUTx lately,
• 12:47
  you've certainly heard his song
• 12:48
  Paiasol, which will be featured in
• 12:50
  his upcoming EP Chicano
• 12:52
  Blues, which will out everywhere on
• 12:54
  June 18th.
• 12:55
  Eddie is with us now on Austin
• 12:57
  Signal. Thank you for being here.
• 12:59
  Thank you so much for having me.
• 13:00
  I'm so excited.
• 13:01
  We are excited to talk with you.
• 13:03
  We have been hearing your music a
• 13:04
  lot on KU-TX lately, but perhaps
• 13:07
  there's a listener out there who
• 13:08
  hasn't heard you yet.
• 13:09
  Tell us a little bit about your
• 13:10
  sound and you as an artist.
• 13:11
  Yeah, for sure.
• 13:13
  Well, I grew up in South Austin and
• 13:15
  a big influence for
• 13:17
  my music is kind
• 13:19
  of harkening back to like an older
• 13:21
  time, but kind of putting my own
• 13:23
  little spin on it.
• 13:24
  Big fan of R&B and
• 13:26
  soul and kind
• 13:28
  of mixing it with like newer genres
• 13:30
  and a little splash of rock,
• 13:32
  a little slash of alternative stuff.
• 13:34
  So I just pulled from the places I
• 13:36
  love and growing up in
• 13:38
  Austin.
• 13:38
  Full of so many different genres.
• 13:41
  It's just kind of hard for me
• 13:43
  to be like fitting in one box.
• 13:48
  The soul is really the vibe
• 13:50
  that I get whenever I see you
• 13:51
  perform.
• 13:53
  Speaking of those oldies, who in
• 13:54
  your life influenced you?
• 13:56
  Who had you listening to oldies?
• 13:58
  For sure, my dad.
• 13:59
  My dad is like
• 14:01
  a huge, huge music head and
• 14:03
  put me on all the girlies.
• 14:05
  You know, Aretha, Whitney, Donna,
• 14:07
  like, and he's just a big fan of
• 14:09
  music. So he really put me onto like
• 14:11
  all types of music
• 14:41
  and I'm grateful that he did because
• 14:43
  it just allowed me to really
• 14:44
  appreciate all types of art.
• 14:47
  Yeah, and I know that you performed
• 14:48
  recently as part of a Prince
• 14:50
  Tribute, so it's really cool to be
• 14:51
  able to see you do all different
• 14:53
  kinds of genres, and you mentioned
• 14:55
  growing up here in South Austin, was
• 14:57
  live music, scene music, being
• 14:59
  around music part of your life
• 15:00
  growing up?
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  Absolutely, absolutely.
• 15:02
  My dad was in a rockabilly band
• 15:03
  growing up.
• 15:04
  Oh, really? Yeah, like I'm also from
• 15:05
  El Paso too, like that's where my
• 15:07
  dad's from. So he had a band
• 15:09
  called the Star Mountain Dreamers
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  out there and he was kind of mixing
• 15:12
  rockabillies with Spanish music.
• 15:14
  It's just kind of like weird because
• 15:16
  that's kind of what I'm doing now
• 15:17
  with my music that I love.
• 15:18
  And so I feel like it's really
• 15:19
  special and kind of full circle
• 15:21
  because he moved out here and
• 15:22
  started playing with like a couple
• 15:24
  of the musicians and was in a group
• 15:25
  called the Monadón Juans.
• 15:27
  Um, and so I just grew up seeing
• 15:29
  him perform and seeing him write
• 15:31
  and, you know, reading his journals
• 15:32
  and seeing how he would compose.
• 15:34
  And he's not like an insane
• 15:36
  musician, but my dad is a really
• 15:38
  awesome performer and like
• 15:40
  just always inspired me growing up
• 15:42
  seeing him and all the other
• 15:43
  musicians that he was around.
• 15:45
  Um, And he still doing stuff
• 15:47
  like to this day, randomly playing
• 15:49
  like rockabilly festivals and stuff
• 15:51
  like that.
• 15:52
  So, um, yeah, I've always had that,
• 15:54
  um around me growing up end.
• 15:56
  My parents were those people who
• 15:58
  would take us to a bunch of shows
• 15:59
  around Austin, because there's just
• 16:01
  stuff to do here like that.
• 16:02
  Yeah, that's very cool.
• 16:04
  You mentioned you are a musician.
• 16:06
  I've seen you play guitar a
• 16:08
  little bit during your shows, but
• 16:09
  you are an amazing performer.
• 16:11
  You really have a
• 16:13
  feel for the crowd.
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  The crowd is kind of in the palm of
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  your hands whenever you're
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  performing.
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  What kind of joy do you get out of
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  performing?
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  I love living it all on the stage.
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  That's my favorite place to be.
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  Um, and yeah, I mean, singing is
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  really my primary instrument and
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  being a vocalist is something I've
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  trained like at UT to doing
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  that. Um, like that was what I
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  studied. And so, yeah, yeah.
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  I went to B-Song
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  Butler for a school of music
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  and, um, my primary instrument was
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  voice. So I wasn't trying to go
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  to the opera, but it was really cool
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  to like hone in, um
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  being a vocallist and like training.
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  It was really hard to sing that type
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  of music and like learn that type of
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  music, but I really got
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  a better grasp of how to control my
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  voice.
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  And, um, yeah, I mean, all the
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  instruments that have come into my
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  life, came into my little bit later,
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  but I've always been singing and
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  performing since I was young.
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  I walk up in his face like I know
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  it's good Spread it around like
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  I'm sure I know you
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  love my energy I know
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  your wanna take the main
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  Don't try to fight it
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  boy, just let it take
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  you away
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  It's gonna make you
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  want it
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  It's gonna have you
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  wanting more
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  Yeah, it's just a special, special
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  place to be on
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  stage and just like,
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  you know, express myself in that
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  way. I don't cry much, but I feel
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  like I leave it all out on the
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  stage, you know, that's where I let
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  it all out.
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  Absolutely and you can really feel
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  it when you're on the stage and
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  the new project that's coming up
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  that is Chicano bluesy or upcoming
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  EP Tell us a little bit about it
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  Yeah, for sure.
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  It's definitely one
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  of my favorite things I've ever made
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  and I made
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  it with a lot of friends and a lot
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  of people I've met through the scene
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  these past couple of years.
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  I learned a lot since my last
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  project.
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  So it's definitely inspired
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  by what I grew up
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  listening to. So a lot oldies and
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  kind of experimenting with
• 18:19
  some newer kind of like sounds.
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  And then a lot of
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  it's written in Spanish too.
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  I have like about three songs that
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  are in Spanish.
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  So that was really fun to explore
• 18:55
  that part of like writing because
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  I've always, you know, written
• 18:58
  songs, but I
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  feel like I've gotten so much better
• 19:01
  at Spanish over the years too.
• 19:04
  I've had a better grasp of it.
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  And also when I moved here, it was
• 19:07
  hard to keep up with it in Austin.
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  But with this next project, I was
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  just like, I really want to try and
• 19:12
  like kind of tap into that side of
• 19:14
  like songwriting. Yeah.
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  It feels special to feel like, oh
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  cool, I can really start exploring
• 19:19
  that more.
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  Ya no más trucos y
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  ya no más
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  I'm a clown, I'm clown, a clown
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  Do you feel like you're getting
• 20:14
  better at writing in Spanish?
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  I think so.
• 20:17
  I think it takes time and
• 20:19
  I think, you know, my
• 20:21
  first thing off the EP Biasal
• 20:22
  was I really dove into it
• 20:24
  and I got some help from my
• 20:26
  dad and I wrote it with
• 20:28
  Midnight Navy which was really,
• 20:30
  really special and cool to do with
• 20:31
  him. So he was fixing all my little
• 20:33
  grammatical errors and stuff.
• 20:35
  But once you catch the vibe, it's
• 20:37
  like, alright, we can make it work.
• 20:40
  So yeah, I definitely feel like it's
• 20:42
  a nice launching pad into exploring
• 20:44
  that part of my songwritings.
• 20:45
  That's wonderful. Everybody needs an
• 20:47
  editor, you know, that I cannot
• 20:48
  stress that enough.
• 20:50
  I have great editors.
• 20:51
  And yeah, I really like I remember
• 20:53
  hearing by also on KUTX for
• 20:55
  the first time.
• 20:56
  Definitely the Spanish caught my
• 20:58
  attention, you know, but then it's
• 20:59
  going back between Spanish and
• 21:01
  English. It's just sounds like a
• 21:02
  conversation I would hear growing up
• 21:03
  in my family. So I always really
• 21:05
  enjoyed that.
• 21:06
  So you've had by also it came
• 21:08
  out a few months ago.
• 21:09
  You had a new single last month,
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  I believe Angel Dust.
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  So what else is coming out this
• 21:13
  summer?
• 21:14
  Yes, for sure.
• 21:15
  Chicano Blues, my new EP, is going
• 21:17
  to be coming out June 18th
• 21:19
  and we're going to celebrating at
• 21:21
  29th Ballroom on
• 21:23
  June 18 as well with Como Las
• 21:25
  Movies, UV, and Yerbita
• 21:27
  Malita as a DJ and
• 21:30
  it's going to really, really fun
• 21:31
  with the whole community pulling up
• 21:32
  because I feel like this project is,
• 21:34
  you know, paying homage to my
• 21:36
  culture and, you, know, bringing
• 21:38
  all the work out.
• 21:39
  You know, it's just like how I grew
• 21:41
  up and like, you know, I'm excited
• 21:42
  to just.
• 21:43
  Bring all these people together to
• 21:45
  celebrate something that's taken a
• 21:46
  long time to put together.
• 21:49
  And also here at this project, like
• 21:50
  it's really, really, like I've
• 21:52
  never been prouder of anything.
• 21:55
  Very cool.
• 21:56
  Well, before we get out of here, I
• 21:57
  want to have one last question for
• 21:59
  you.
• 22:00
  Reyna Sevilla is our technical
• 22:02
  director. I understand that she
• 22:03
  worked with you to produce some of
• 22:04
  the songs and sounds like you work
• 22:05
  with a lot of other people that
• 22:07
  you've grown up with in the scene.
• 22:09
  How important is that to you to kind
• 22:10
  of continue to uplift your
• 22:12
  community as you're kind of
• 22:14
  experiencing this rise as your own
• 22:16
  artist?
• 22:16
  It's everything.
• 22:17
  It's so important and I wouldn't be
• 22:19
  here if I wasn't able to
• 22:22
  bring my best friends along
• 22:24
  the way and I hope to continue
• 22:26
  doing that with the
• 22:28
  more musician friends that I make
• 22:29
  along the way because that's
• 22:31
  how my best work is made.
• 22:33
  I just want all of us to continue
• 22:35
  to make art together and that's such
• 22:37
  an awesome thing to do.
• 22:39
  It has always been DIY, it's always
• 22:41
  been very community based.
• 22:44
  And tell me how much you
• 22:46
  love me
• 22:53
  Don't try to find it boy
• 22:56
  Just let it take you
• 22:58
  away He's
• 23:00
  gonna make you fall
• 23:05
  It's special, so I just like I want
• 23:07
  to continue to do that as much as I
• 23:08
  can and
• 23:10
  you know we've gone this far just
• 23:12
  doing our best so I'm
• 23:14
  excited to see what the future
• 23:15
  holds.
• 23:16
  The sky is the limit, so keep
• 23:18
  soaring.
• 23:18
  Enjoy it while it is happening.
• 23:20
  We have been speaking with Eddie
• 23:21
  Angel. He is the KUTX Artist
• 23:23
  of the Month. Eddie, thank you for
• 23:25
  your time.
• 23:25
  Thank you so much.
• 23:33
  Oh
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  And that is music from
• 23:38
  EddieAngel's studio on a
• 23:40
  performance. Keep your eyes out for
• 23:41
  that video. Coming soon on KUTX's
• 23:44
  YouTube page.
• 23:46
  That is it for us today.
• 23:47
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• 23:49
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• 23:53
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