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Taylor strikes deal on nearby data center, Austin’s changing demographics, Ensenada ATX · Austin Signal

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  The City of Taylor has made a deal
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  with developers on a proposed data
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  center in an unincorporated part
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  of Williamson County.
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  Officials say the city can impose
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  regulations on the development,
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  but neighbors aren't sure about what
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  comes next.
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  The median age of the Austin area's
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  population skews young, but that is
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  changing and fast.
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  That's coming up on today's show.
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  The Austin Signal is a production of
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  KUT News, hosted by Jennifer
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  Staten.
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  Hear about a family's journey and
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  mission to bring Ensenada Baja-style
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  flavors to Austin.
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  Plus, I know it's only Thursday,
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  but the weekend is almost here, so
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  we've got KUT's Artbeat editor
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  Stephanie Federico to talk about
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  the interesting artsy things going
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  on around town this weekend for our
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  Where the Art is segment.
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  That and more up next on Austin
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  Signal.
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  Hi Austin, it's Thursday, October
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  15th, 2026.
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  I'm Jennifer Staten.
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  This is Austin Signal.
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  The City of Taylor has agreed to
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  a deal with developers of a proposed
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  data center in an unincorporated
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  area of Williamson County.
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  Officials say the deal let the city
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  impose regulations on the
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  development, but as KUT's
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  Kaylee Hunt reports, the agreement
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  still leaves the project's neighbors
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  uncertain.
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  About what comes next.
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  When Loma Cox bought her 17
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  acre property just outside Taylor
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  city limits three years ago,
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  she thought it would be her forever
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  home.
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  It has a built-in pool, a pond,
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  and most importantly, her children
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  and grandchildren.
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  I purchased this as a family
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  compound.
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  It had two previously and
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  I just did a third
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  home on it.
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  So we've got three homes for three
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  generations of my family.
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  But now, the proposed data center
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  across the street has Cox rethinking
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  things.
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  BigWatt Digital and Powerhouse data
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  centers are set to turn the empty
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  664-acre property
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  into a sprawling data center
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  facility with its own natural gas
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  power plant.
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  They're saying that they're gonna
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  provide their own power, but it's
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  gas.
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  And then think of what that does to
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  the air, that pollutes the air.
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  Under the deal the Taylor City
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  Council approved, the city will
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  annex the property.
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  Council members say the annexation
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  will allow the city to better manage
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  the impacts of the project,
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  including air pollution.
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  Though she doesn't live within
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  Taylor City limits, Cox says
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  she supports the annexations.
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  My initial gut instinct is to
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  say that I think it's better to have
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  something in place that requires
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  these people to have to
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  do something to protect
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  us, the people that
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  live right.
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  By them.
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  But she has real concerns about
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  how the city will enforce any
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  regulations on the project.
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  So does her neighbor, Margaret
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  Matta.
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  How's that going to work?
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  Going to be a constant babysitting.
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  That's the way I see it.
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  Matza has lived on her property for
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  35 years, and, like
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  Cox, thought it would be her forever
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  home.
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  In addition to the environmental
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  impacts, both women are
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  also seriously concerned about how
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  the project will affect their
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  property values.
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  Matza says the plan was to
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  eventually leave her property to her
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  children.
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  We assumed we, you know, I could
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  pass the home and
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  what little piece of patch of
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  land I do have to my children.
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  And basically if it's
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  worthless now, they have no
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  inheritance.
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  They inherit nothing.
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  There's still a lot that's not known
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  about the data center here.
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  Developers still need to get permits
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  for the onsite power plant.
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  It's not clear when they'll break
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  ground.
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  In the meantime, both Mata and
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  Cox are trying to decide whether to
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  stay or to leave now and
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  get what they can for their
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  properties.
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  I'm Kayleigh Hunt and Williamson
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  County.
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  Okay, get ready, here comes some
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  numbers about the Austin area.
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  The median age is around 35
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  years old.
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  About 72 percent of the area's
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  population is in workforce age
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  groups older than children, but
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  younger than 65.
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  So safe to say Austin skews
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  young, but that's changing and
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  pretty fast.
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  As part of KUT's Longview Project
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  on Aging in Austin, senior
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  editor Saida Carrillo and I talked
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  with City of Austin demographer,
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  Lila Valencia, about Austin
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  by the numbers.
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  And by the way, the Austin metro
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  area means Bastrop, Caldwell,
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  Hayes, Travis, and Williamson
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  counties, unless we specifically
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  mention the city of Austin.
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  We all know Austin to have this
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  reputation as a city that is
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  young and hip and attracts those
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  young professionals.
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  Does the data on age bear that
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  out?
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  Oh, absolutely.
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  So Austin's population or
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  its age distribution is
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  really heavily weighted by
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  the young workforce.
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  We see the
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  bulk of our population really being
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  made up of those working ages
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  from about 20 to 45
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  years of age.
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  But Austin is still aging
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  just as fast as the country,
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  and it's actually aging faster
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  than pure cities.
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  Why is Austin's population
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  aging faster?
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  What do you mean by that?
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  Austin tends to have pretty low
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  fertility rates.
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  Those younger workers typically wait
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  a little bit longer before they're
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  gonna have children.
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  We're also a college town,
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  so a lot of those young people
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  who may be having children in
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  other places are kind of holding
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  off until graduation here in Austin.
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  We also have very high levels of
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  educational attainment.
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  And so typically people with higher
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  levels of education tend to
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  have fewer children.
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  We also have a really
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  growing older population.
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  Can you tell us about what
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  has caused some of these
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  changes, perhaps keeping older folks
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  aging in place in Austin or
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  contributing to the growth of that
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  population?
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  In the 1990s and 2000s,
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  our peak migration rates were for
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  those people that were really in,
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  you know, like 18 to about
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  24 or so.
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  In the 2010s and since
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  then, the peak migration rate
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  are really attributed to people who
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  are closer to 30.
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  Some of that, you can also be
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  attributed to changes in
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  affordability, right?
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  You can't really come to
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  Austin if you can't afford to live
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  here. And so that means that
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  people who have, you know, sort of
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  an entry level job, they might not
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  be able to live here in
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  Austin. So maybe they choose a
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  different place to live.
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  We hear anecdotally that
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  seniors move here because their kids
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  are here, their grandkids are here.
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  Maybe their kids got jobs here,
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  moved here.
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  Is that a phenomenon that is
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  impacting that growing upper
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  age level?
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  So we do have some data on
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  sort of the characteristics of
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  people who move into the area
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  and it depends on where people are
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  coming from, right? So if they're
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  moving from other parts of Texas,
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  they tend to be, you know, fairly
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  young.
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  People who are coming out of state
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  can oftentimes have
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  higher median ages than the
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  Austin population.
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  And so that does suggest
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  that there could be, you know more
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  seniors that are moving to the area
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  from other part of the country.
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  When we look at where seniors who
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  live alone live in Austin,
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  they typically live within the city
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  of Austin.
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  And when we look data of seniors
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  who live with their children,
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  they tend to live in the suburbs.
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  And so that suggests that
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  they may be moving into
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  those areas where their families
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  are located throughout the metro
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  region, but maybe not necessarily
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  to Austin.
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  Do you have any data on
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  multi-generational households
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  and how many seniors in our area are
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  living with children or
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  grandchildren?
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  What we know is that about 30%
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  or so in the city of Austin and
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  maybe a little bit closer to
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  like about a quarter or so
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  of older population in the Austin
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  metro area are seniors who
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  live alone.
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  Most other seniors
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  live with their partners,
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  with their spouses.
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  There are about maybe 10
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  to 15% who live
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  with they're grown children.
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  The number of multi-generational
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  households has been growing in
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  Austin, but it makes up a fairly
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  small share of all households.
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  It's about 5% of Austin
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  specifically.
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  Most of those households are
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  actually made up by Hispanic
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  families. Over half of those
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  multi- generational households are
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  Hispanic families,
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  next largest share in the
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  city of Austin is made
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  up of black multi- generation
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  households.
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  We've seen a really rapid
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  growth of Asian multi-generational
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  households. They are definitely the
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  fastest growing.
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  And then the smallest share is
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  made up by white multi-
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  generational households.
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  Can you break?
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  Down the age demographics
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  for the Austin area by
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  race and ethnicity.
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  The population that's really
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  experiencing the greatest sort of
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  indicators of aging is the
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  non-Hispanic white population in
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  Austin.
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  They have the highest median
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  age at about 36.
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  They also make up the
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  the largest share of the population
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  at 65 and older.
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  They are about 65 percent of the
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  total senior population and
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  then the youngest population is
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  the Hispanic population.
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  They have a median age closer to
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  right under 30.
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  They tend to, you know, have
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  lower fertility rates.
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  They also tend to have a
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  significant share that is immigrant
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  or foreign born.
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  And so immigrants, when they come
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  here, they sort of self-select to
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  come around working ages.
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  And so they tend to be younger for
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  those reasons.
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  And then that's followed by the
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  Asian population that also has, you
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  that sort of immigrant component.
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  But when we look at who's growing
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  older the fastest,
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  that's definitely the Asian
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  population has really been
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  growing the sort of senior
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  population much more quickly.
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  And that's, of course, because the
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  Asian population is now really
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  starting to build roots in Austin.
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  And so they've been here for a few
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  decades now. They're growing their
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  families. And now they're aging in
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  the Austin metro area.
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  Where do you see Austin's
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  population headed as
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  it relates.
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  To seniors?
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  Austin's senior population is the
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  fastest growing age group, right,
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  in the population, and it's going to
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  continue to be so for the next 10
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  to 20 years, especially
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  among the oldest senior population,
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  so those that are 75 and
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  older.
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  Our projections for the city of
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  Austin really indicate that
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  the older population will grow
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  from a current rate of about 11
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  percent to over 28
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  percent.
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  That really puts both Texas
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  and Austin, especially in
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  what demographers often call, you
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  know, a super-aged society.
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  But as the older population really,
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  you know starts to grow,
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  it'll also continue to
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  diversify, to reflect
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  more and more the Austin that we
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  see today.
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  By what year are you projecting
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  it? Out to 2060.
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  And that's for the city of Austin
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  alone because I don't produce
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  projections for the metro
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  area.
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  What does that mean for
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  the impacts on Austin?
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  When we have a population that's
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  aging, demographers often
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  think about things like the
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  impact on the workforce.
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  So that means that we are likely
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  to have fewer and fewer workers
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  in our economy.
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  And so how do we support that?
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  Or how do attract more
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  young workers to be able to provide
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  that workforce?
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  We also think about,
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  you know, sort of the impacts.
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  Especially on demands for services
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  in terms of health care.
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  Of Austin demographer Lila Valencia
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  talking with me and KUT senior
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  editor Saida Carrillo for KUT's
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  Longview Project on aging
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  in Austin.
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  We've got more Austin Signal right
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  after this.
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  This is the Austin Signal.
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  Welcome back.
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  A jazz legend, a University of
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  Texas student and a landmark hotel
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  in Austin, this week in
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  1931, Louis Armstrong
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  performed at the Driscoll Hotel.
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  In a concert that potentially
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  altered civil rights history.
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  That concert would leave a lasting
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  impression on a UT freshman named
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  Charles Black, who would later cite
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  it as an inspiration for his
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  work, Fighting Segregation.
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  Jason Mellard with the Center for
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  Texas Music History at Texas State
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  University tells us the story.
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  This week in Texas music history,
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  a UT student witnesses a jazz
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  concert that alters the course
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  of history.
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  On October 12, 1931,
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  Louis Armstrong performed a concert
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  at Austin's Driscoll Hotel that
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  sent ripples through civil rights
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  history decades later.
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  Armstrong was then at a critical
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  moment in his career.
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  He had just wrapped up his
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  genre-defining time with the Hot
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  Five and was entering a new era of
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  improvisations on American standards
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  that would make Armstrong among the
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  most celebrated artists of the 20th
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  century.
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  His key recordings of Stardust and
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  Georgia On My Mind came just three
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  weeks after this Austin tour date.
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  This particular concert holds
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  additional weight because of someone
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  who is in attendance, or at least
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  who that someone would become in the
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  wake of hearing Armstrong play.
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  Charles Black, then a freshman at
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  the University of Texas, was utterly
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  transformed.
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  He later said of that night that it
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  is impossible to overstate the
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  significance in 1931 of
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  a 16-year-old white Southern boy
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  seeing genius for the first time
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  in a black artist.
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  Charles Black later wrote those
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  words about the concert's role in
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  his life after having worked with
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  the NAACP on the victorious
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  1954 Brown v.
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  Board Supreme Court case declaring
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  school segregation unconstitutional.
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  At a reception at Harlem's Savoy
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  Ballroom in the wake of that
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  victory, Thurgood Marshall
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  introduced Charles Black as a white
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  man from Texas who's been with us
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  all the way.
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  Following the celebration in Harlem,
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  Charles Black went home.
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  Put Armstrong's Savoy Blues on
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  the record player, and reflected on
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  the concert that changed his life
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  as well as the course of legal
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  history.
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  I have felt that it was just then,
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  at the Driscoll in 1931, he wrote,
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  that I started walking toward the
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  Brown case, where I belonged.
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  Every person in the South of those
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  days must have had some doubts about
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  racism, but Louis opened my
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  eyes wide and put to me a
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  choice.
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  That was Jason Mellard with the
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  Center for Texas Music History
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  at Texas State University.
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  Christina Everett and her family
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  opened a Baja style food
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  truck, Ensenada ATX in
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  Austin in June, 2022.
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  Tacos of Texas podcast host Mondo
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  Rayo interviewed Christina about
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  her family's journey and their
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  mission to bring Ensenado flavors
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  to Austin.
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  Well, tell me a little bit about
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  how you all started
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  with this whole idea around really
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  entrepreneurship.
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  You're making your own salsa, you
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  have the truck.
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  Where did those early beginnings
• 15:55
  come from?
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  Oh, wow. Like I would have to
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  say that we've always been
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  entrepreneurs. My mom, even when we
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  were in school, she would sell
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  cheesecakes, you know, and
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  she was always doing things to
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  fund like the school and stuff like.
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  So my dad also had his
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  neon sign business in Mexico.
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  So I think we really grew up,
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  you know, in the entrepreneurial
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  world, you know, and
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  we were raised in Mexico our whole
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  life and it
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  just evolved.
• 16:21
  Somehow we got into the food
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  industry. Well, I did,
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  you And the
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  Encinada food truck
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  started because my sister
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  moved out to Austin.
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  Okay, yeah.
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  And she married a guy from Texas,
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  from Austin, and then
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  when she moved out here, she was
• 16:39
  like, Mom, there's like no tacos
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  and like
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  I miss our Baja style tacos.
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  There's nothing like that out here.
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  So my brother-in-law, you know, like
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  with my sister, convinced my
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  mom to come out
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  here and start, you now, Insanala
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  ATX. And I tagged
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  along because I had previous
• 16:57
  experience at food trucks, running
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  two food tricks in San Diego.
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  So, we all just kind of joined into
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  that together and we just, you know,
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  this was the first time my mom was
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  doing something like this.
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  So, I get props to hurry
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  to just be like saying, I'm moving
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  from Mexico to Austin to
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  like start this, you know.
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  So, just, I think we just
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  have it in the blood to be honest.
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  Because even my daughter who's 13
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  now, like she's such a big
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  entrepreneur. She has her Brownie
• 17:23
  business. She has like a.
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  I know she's on social media too, I
• 17:26
  see her doing the video.
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  Yes. So it's really cool.
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  We just have it in us, I believe,
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  you know, and it's
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  really nice. And this time we
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  get to do it together.
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  You know, we get to do together
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  because Ensenada was just something
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  that really brought us together
• 17:42
  to do. And we all realized
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  really quickly that we all had our
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  different strengths, you know.
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  And I think that that was such a big
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  key and making Ensenadas
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  a success, you know?
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  Because my mom was really good at
• 17:53
  one thing, I was really good at
• 17:54
  another. My sister was really going
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  on and my daughter was really I
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  don't know, so. It's just combined.
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  You got like like multiple
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  generations of Latina power.
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  Yes
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  power. Yes, exactly.
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  Exactly. Exactly, literally my mom,
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  my sister and myself and crystal my
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  daughter being third generation.
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  That was Mondo Ryo, host of
• 18:19
  the Tacos of Texas podcast.
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  We've got KUT's art beat editor,
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  Stephanie Federico, here to talk
• 18:25
  about the interesting artsy
• 18:27
  things going on around town for
• 18:29
  our Where the Art Is segment.
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  Stephanie, thanks for talking with
• 18:33
  us here on Austin Signal.
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  Happy to be here, Jen.
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  Okay, so Stephanie, I like to plan
• 18:38
  chronologically.
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  So let's go through some Saturday
• 18:42
  options first.
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  Now there's a fascinating event
• 18:45
  sounds really fascinating from
• 18:46
  Austin Cantorum.
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  Who are they and tell us what
• 18:49
  this event is.
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  Jen, I'm really excited about this.
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  I actually just went to a rehearsal
• 18:54
  on Wednesday. We're going to have a
• 18:55
  story running tomorrow.
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  This is a local chamber choir
• 18:58
  made up of about 28
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  singers.
• 19:02
  They're doing this concert called
• 19:04
  Visionary.
• 19:05
  And it's based on a playlist
• 19:07
  that researchers at John
• 19:09
  Hopkins came up with for
• 19:11
  participants in their studies on
• 19:13
  the effects of psychedelics.
• 19:15
  In treating depression and PTSD.
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  So there's this playlist.
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  It's eight hours long.
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  It like mimics an actual.
• 19:20
  Oh, is the performance eight hours
• 19:22
  long? No, it's not.
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  No, it's not. They were the
• 19:24
  directors being kind.
• 19:25
  So it's like an hour and 20 minutes
• 19:26
  or so. But it mimics the arc
• 19:28
  of like a mushroom trip.
• 19:30
  And you've got this
• 19:33
  rise and onset and
• 19:35
  peak and descent.
• 19:37
  And it's going to be gorgeous,
• 19:39
  absolutely gorgeous. And it's free.
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  It's over at First English Lutheran
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  Church right near us here in
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  Saturday, yeah.
• 19:48
  I've got a ton more questions, but
• 19:49
  you say a story's coming out on it.
• 19:50
  So I will wait and hear more in
• 19:52
  your story.
• 19:53
  That one sounds pretty intense,
• 19:55
  Stephanie. So let's move on to
• 19:57
  another option for Saturday.
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  This one we actually heard a little
• 20:00
  bit about on the signal yesterday
• 20:01
  from Austin Creative Reuse.
• 20:03
  Tell us about this fashion show.
• 20:04
  Yeah.
• 20:05
  I'm really also really excited about
• 20:07
  this. And I got to be
• 20:09
  there when one of the designers was
• 20:10
  creating a look that she's gonna put
• 20:12
  down the runway on Saturday.
• 20:14
  So Austin Creative Reuse is like
• 20:16
  this, it's like
• 20:18
  a shop of
• 20:20
  donated crafty things and
• 20:22
  it has all sorts of things in the
• 20:24
  shop. And they have this annual
• 20:26
  fashion show where people make
• 20:28
  clothing out of reused
• 20:30
  and recycled materials.
• 20:31
  And you could use anything.
• 20:32
  And I'm just like.
• 20:34
  Blown away by how creative people
• 20:36
  are. And one of the designers I
• 20:38
  met and did a story on,
• 20:40
  she used a lot of cracked pickle
• 20:41
  balls that she kind of smushed
• 20:43
  and melted into flowers and pinned
• 20:45
  onto these outfits.
• 20:47
  And yeah, it's gonna be really
• 20:49
  cool. Fashion show on
• 20:51
  Saturday. It's at Mueller,
• 20:53
  their little branch park pavilion
• 20:55
  over there.
• 20:56
  Now that sounds like a must-see with
• 20:58
  a pickleball, so everybody file that
• 20:59
  away. Now Stephanie, I think you
• 21:01
  also wanted to point out a show
• 21:02
  that's closing on Saturday.
• 21:04
  Tell us about that one.
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  These, this is over at Ivester
• 21:08
  Contemporary in the Canopy building.
• 21:11
  This is Christine Garvey.
• 21:13
  She's an Austin-based painter.
• 21:16
  It's called Parlor Tricks.
• 21:18
  And the paintings she
• 21:20
  has are really striking.
• 21:21
  They're kind of messy and feral.
• 21:23
  These are, there's some like really
• 21:25
  beautiful colors that she uses, but
• 21:26
  there's a lot of like levitating
• 21:28
  women and bodies sawed in half
• 21:30
  and.
• 21:31
  The exhibit is an exploration of
• 21:33
  female archetypes.
• 21:35
  And it kind of reflects the
• 21:37
  psychological complexity of being a
• 21:39
  woman in this day and age.
• 21:41
  There's like references to magic
• 21:43
  and patron saints.
• 21:45
  And one thing it says on the iVester
• 21:47
  website is that the exhibit
• 21:49
  asks the question, who gets to
• 21:51
  create the stories and symbols
• 21:53
  through which women understand
• 21:54
  themselves?
• 21:55
  And so, yeah, that's closing on
• 21:57
  Saturday. So check it out while you
• 21:59
  can.
• 21:59
  To check that out is Saturday.
• 22:00
  And then Stephanie, one more thing,
• 22:02
  tell us about, this is spanning both
• 22:03
  days, now moving on Saturday and
• 22:05
  Sunday. Lots of people may be
• 22:07
  familiar with Art from the Streets.
• 22:08
  They've been doing an annual show
• 22:10
  and sale for a long time.
• 22:11
  It's coming up this weekend.
• 22:12
  Tell us about that.
• 22:14
  Yeah, it's over at Blue Genie on
• 22:16
  both Saturday and Sunday.
• 22:17
  This is art from the streets is like
• 22:19
  a place where people experiencing
• 22:21
  homelessness.
• 22:22
  They have this space where they can
• 22:23
  paint and be creative.
• 22:25
  And last year, well, they
• 22:27
  do this every year.
• 22:28
  It's an annual event where they have
• 22:29
  a sale and a show.
• 22:31
  And last, year more than 2,000
• 22:32
  pieces were for sale
• 22:34
  by 55 different unhoused artists.
• 22:36
  And I imagine it will probably be
• 22:38
  similar this year.
• 22:39
  The artwork costs around $35 and
• 22:41
  up, and 95% of
• 22:43
  every sale goes back to the artist.
• 22:44
  So it's a really special event, and
• 22:46
  you might be surprised at by how
• 22:47
  much talent you see there, so.
• 22:49
  Well, we've been speaking with
• 22:50
  Stephanie Federico, Artbeat editor
• 22:52
  here at KUT.
• 22:54
  Stephanie, thank you for coming in.
• 22:56
  Thanks, Jen.
• 22:57
  You can find out more about what's
• 22:59
  going on in the Austin art world by
• 23:00
  signing up for the Artbeat
• 23:01
  newsletter at kut.org
• 23:04
  slash Artbeat.
• 23:05
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• 23:06
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• 23:08
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• 23:12
  Today on Austin Signal.
• 23:15
  Thank you to Stephanie Federico for
• 23:17
  coming on the show today.
• 23:19
  Caroline Feil is our technical
• 23:21
  director.
• 23:22
  Alexandra Hart is our producer.
• 23:24
  Kristin Cabrera is our managing
• 23:26
  producer.
• 23:27
  Jimmy Moss is our showrunner.
• 23:30
  And I'm your host, Jennifer Staten.
• 23:32
  Be sure to join us tomorrow.