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UT students hold vigil for victims of Buford’s shooting · Austin Signal

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We are continuing to follow
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developments after Sunday's shooting
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at Buford's that killed three
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people.
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We're gonna hear the latest update
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from the Austin Police Department.
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They just held a press conference
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that wrapped up in the last hour.
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We have an update on the number of
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people shot and the victims still in
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the hospital.
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There was a vigil last night on the
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University of Texas campus to honor
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the victims.
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At least two are confirmed to be UT
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students.
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We'll have more about those stories
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coming up 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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Also coming up today on the
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show, imagine your local box
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store parking lot as its own
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thriving ecosystem.
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And now think about how that might
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be conveyed as an art installation
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and cardboard.
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Those stories and a whole lot more
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up next right here on
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Austin Signal.
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This is Austin Signal.
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Thank you for tuning in.
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It's the fifth day of March.
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We're glad you're making us part of
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your Thursday.
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We are continuing to follow
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developments after Sunday's shooting
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at Buford's Backyard Beer Garden
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that killed three people and has
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left others wounded and in critical
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condition.
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The Austin Police Department today
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held their first press conference
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since Monday. We're getting things
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set up here to bring you the latest
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updates from local officials.
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Right now, we're going to bring in
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Acacia Coronado from the Austin
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Current, a reporting partner.
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With KUT News and Austin Signal
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covering the city of Austin, Acacia,
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thank you for joining us.
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Thanks for having me.
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So you and fellow reporter Andrea
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Ball have a story out this week
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about the uptick of anti-Muslim
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rhetoric coming from state
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leadership prior to
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and after Sunday's shooting at
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Buford's and how that kind of
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information has been compounded by
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the alleged gunman possibly
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being Muslim.
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What kind of rhetoric or actions
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have we heard from state leaders,
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let's say like over the past six
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months?
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Yeah. So this really comes
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at a time in which rhetoric
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has been very tense.
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In November, Governor Greg Abbott
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designated the Muslim Brotherhood
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and the Council on American-Islamic
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Relations, foreign terrorist
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organizations, which banned them
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from purchasing or requiring
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land in Texas.
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And then last month, Attorney
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General Ken Paxton sued to
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try to shut down care, and
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then this also comes just a
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few weeks after.
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Some democratic lawmakers signed a
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letter saying that schools
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with ties to the
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Muslim religion had been banned
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from participating in the
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state's school voucher
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program.
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Going back to Sunday's shooting at
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Buford, law enforcement officials
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have been hesitant to
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declare a definitive motive in the
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shooting, but they did say it could
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be terrorism related.
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What evidence have they been
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pointing to?
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So, so far, the evidence
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that we are aware of that they are
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pointing to are images of
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the suspect wearing
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a shirt that said a property of a
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law, as well as allegedly
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wearing a shirt with
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an Iranian flag design.
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And so those are, as far as we
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know, the indicators.
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And this did come the
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day after the United States
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bombed Iran.
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And as I said, we're expecting an
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update from Austin, the Austin
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Police Department. That'll be coming
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up shortly here on Austin
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Signal.
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Let's talk about the local community
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and the reaction to it in
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the wake of Sunday's shooting.
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Local leaders are frankly concerned
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about Austin's Muslim community.
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Let's start with council member Zoh
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Khadri.
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The shooting happened in the
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district that he represents.
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You talked to him, what did he tell
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y'all?
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He told us that he's hearing that
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the community is concerned and
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he is concerned, he's concerned
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for the safety of all of the
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Austin community, but he's also
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concerned for the safety of the
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Muslim members of the
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Austin community because he's
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hearing concern from them about
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their houses of worship and their
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prayer times and whether a bad
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actor could come in towards
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them, come in and commit
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crimes towards them.
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Well, speaking of religious
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houses of worship here in the Austin
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area, you also spoke with a
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religious leader from the community.
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Who did you speak with?
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Yeah, so I spoke with
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an imam from an area mosque
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who mentioned that the
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community is just as heartened
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to hear members of
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their own neighborhoods, of their
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schools, of their workplaces
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kind of continuing to
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speak with such negative rhetoric
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about the Muslim community.
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And at the same time, they have
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concern about their safety, they
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have fears.
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They are continuing their usual
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safety protocol, which includes
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having volunteers
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for safety outside of
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their place of worship during their
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prayer hours.
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We have been speaking with Acacia
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Coronado.
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She is the education reporter for
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Austin Current.
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They are KUT's reporting partner in
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coverage of Austin.
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Thank you for joining us, Acacia.
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Thank you for having me.
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OK, we mentioned that update from
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the Austin Police Department.
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We are now joined by KUT's
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government accountability reporter
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Andrew Weber.
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He was at that press conference.
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Andrew, thanks for making it to the
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studio. Yeah. Thanks for having me,
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Jerry. So tell us, what kind
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of updates did we hear today from
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Austin Police?
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A lot of updates on
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the suspected shooter, but we did
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get a sense of the timeframe
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here.
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Chief Lisa Davis came out and played
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two 911 calls from
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the area just after the shooting
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began, and she also
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played a lot video footage,
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specifically two officer
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body worn cameras,
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and a halo camera, which is just
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sort of one of those cameras that's
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mounted and has sort of a bird's eye
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view of the area, and then another
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one from a vehicle that was nearby.
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Okay, what did we-
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We found out that there was a
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small history between the suspect
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and APD.
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What were the details there?
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Yeah, they said that he largely
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wasn't on their radar,
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but as Sam Stark reported
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for the Austin Current, there have
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been allegations of domestic
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violence in San Antonio.
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And they did mention a wellness
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check.
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That was through, the chief
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said, through New York where he used
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to live. He used to in the Bronx.
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Okay, we also got
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an update as far as the the
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numbers of victims who were impacted
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by the shooting.
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What was that update 19 people?
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In total were hit by gunfire.
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Okay, and what was the number
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originally? It was originally 14.
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14 people hospitalized was the
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initial number that they put out.
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They also revised the number of
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folks in critical care.
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Initially it was two after Jorge
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Peterson's death,
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or rather it was originally three,
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then Jorge Peterson passed away and
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now it's two people and one of those
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people is in critical condition.
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Okay yeah, this was like a mix
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of body cam footage, some radio
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calls, 9-1-1 calls, and
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the updates that you just
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provided for us.
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Was there anything else that stood
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out to you in this update?
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Speaking to Acasio's story,
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your conversation with her just now,
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APD did address, they
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didn't, rather I should say, they
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did not address the motive.
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FBI is leading this investigation.
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They did, in some of the footage,
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we did see the shirt that a lot of
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folks, I imagine, have probably seen
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online on confirmed
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reports initially.
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We saw the
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suspect wearing a shirt that said
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property of Allah and
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committing a shooting seemingly.
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I think APD has
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been very, very tight-lipped about
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motive because the investigation
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is still ongoing.
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And I think that to an extent, not
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to carry water for them, they're
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having a measure of
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sensitivity toward that because
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APD initially didn't
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comment, then Monday, Chief Davis
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said that Diaghne was wearing
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a shirt that featured Islamic,
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excuse me, Iranian.
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I should say, symbolism on
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his undershirt under that property
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of a law shirt, but didn't really go
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off any more on that.
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I think, you know, that's, we're
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going to have to wait for that until
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the FBI comes out with a final
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update on the investigation.
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Okay, well, we will continue
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following that. Thank you for being
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at that press conference, and thank
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you for making it to Austin Signal
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today. That is KUT's government
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accountability reporter, Andrew
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Weber. Thank you, Jerry.
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And last night there was a vigil for
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the victims here on the UT campus
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held by the Student Government
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Association.
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KUT's Lee Walden was there and she
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is with us in the studio now.
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Lee, thanks for being here.
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Yeah, thanks for having me.
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So tell us a little bit about this
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vigil. How many people were out
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there last night? What was it like?
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Yeah, it's hard to estimate how many
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folks exactly were there, but it was
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hundreds.
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It was a pretty packed crowd of
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folks who showed up to
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come together and mourn together,
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grieve together,
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being, leaning on one another and
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joining in company to remember the
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folks who were victims of the
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shooting.
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And we know that at least a couple
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of the victims were
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Longhorns here on the UT campus,
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and obviously the ages of
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a couple of these victims are the
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ages of a lot of these students who
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are around us here every single day.
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You spoke with a student who was out
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at the Vigil last night Jasmine
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stores. Tell me about her and what
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she had to say to you.
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Yeah, Jasmine was telling me about
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how her perception of Austin has
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kind of changed.
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She was telling about how
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safe she feels living here
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now and it goes beyond
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just this issue, but she
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was telling that, you know, she
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doesn't really have a strong grasp
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of what it would take for her to
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feel safer living here in
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the moment.
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But she was glad to have this space
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to be in community with other
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Longhorns.
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She came alone, but she felt like
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she was part of something
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in this kind of community grieving
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that happened last night.
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I know a lot of students come here,
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you know, with
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dreams and goals and pursuits
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and I know the people who passed
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away had those and
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just like that their lives are taken
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in an instant and so I
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think it's very important to
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just have that understanding that
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life is very precious.
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It's not to be taken for granted and
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to just hold those that
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we still have today very close
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to us because we never know what
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could happen.
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Yeah, very powerful words there for
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a very tragic time.
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I can hear it in her voice, I can
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here it in your voice as well.
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What else were the messages and the
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feelings that you were hearing out
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there?
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Yeah, we also heard from, this event
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was by the UT student government.
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So we also hear from folks from
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the student government, Hudson
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Thomas is the student body to
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president. And he gave comment
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about how this isn't just a
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loss that's felt on
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an individual basis, it's felt by
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the whole community. And they're
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grieving as a collective campus
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in an absence of
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any of these students and a hurt
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from any of the students is felt by
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everyone across campus.
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I also spoke to some first
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years on campus.
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They were telling me about how
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it's kind of slow coming just
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to come to terms and reflect over
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how they're feeling.
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They're scared and anxious and
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really upset.
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And I think anger is a big part of
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this too. They're telling me how
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they wish part
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of it kind of instigates change
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in a lot of different directions,
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whether that's better mental health
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care resources for folks need.
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All the way to better
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control of guns,
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and sitting with tragedy, not
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becoming insensitized to it,
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and knowing that even though
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these sorts of events seem to happen
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a lot for folks these
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days, and that they're constantly
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hearing about it and feel
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inundated with these kinds of news,
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that it doesn't just kind of wash
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over them, that people sit with it.
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It unfortunately feels like these
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events happen more often, and
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sometimes it does feel even being in
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the news industry that you do get
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desensitized, and then unfortunately
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something that's kind of
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reinforced in your backyard and
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you're forced to grasp with that,
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or deal with that.
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Has the university been making
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resources available to the students?
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I know the city of Austin had a
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resource center that popped up
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earlier in the week.
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What has UT been doing?
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Yeah, UT has been definitely
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trying. I mean, this event itself
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is kind of the resource.
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But no, there were people going
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around the crowd from different
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offices all over campus, offering
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resources, tissues, and comfort.
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And they were making known
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throughout the entire event that
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there are resources available on
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campus and for any students or
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community members that are
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struggling to reach out and
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use some of the help that they are
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offering.
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Okay, we have been speaking with
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KUT's Lee Walden.
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She was out at the vigil last night
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and did this reporting, along
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with Kut's Greta
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Diaz-Gonzalez-Vasquez.
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We're gonna have a link to their
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story in our show notes today
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and in the podcast show
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notes, excuse me, over at kut.org
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slash Signal.
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Lee, thanks for being here and I
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hope you take care of yourself in
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the coming days. Thank you.
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This is Austin Signal.
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This is Austin Signal, welcome back.
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Award-winning artist Robin Frohart
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is returning to Austin with a new
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show that reimagines the
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parking lot as a complex ecosystem.
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It combines a hand-built set with
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puppetry and cinematic projections.
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Maya Fawaz stopped by the McCullough
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Theater during rehearsals and
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brings us this story.
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Robin Frohart says her show,
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Shopping Center of the Universe,
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started with a parking lot.
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It kind of sounds like this.
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It's right outside my window, so
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it's something that I can't help but
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notice.
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She's been living across the street
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from a Home Depot in Brooklyn for
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17 years.
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A lot of trucks backing up.
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And carts and
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yeah and people hollering there's
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so much traffic a
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truly epic Academy Award-winning
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honking that like happens there on
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a daily basis
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So to summarize her show,
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I guess the most important thing to
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know is that I've recreated the
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entire neighborhood in cardboard.
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Throwheart is a multidisciplinary
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artist and puppeteer.
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In the show, she's created sets
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of buildings and cars and
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animals.
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Every part of it has been a
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challenge.
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It's a crazy idea and
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she brings it all to life with the
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help of multiple cameras, sound
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design, music, and staging.
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Sometimes you're watching the
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screen, and sometimes you're
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watching me, and sometimes you are
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watching the puppeteers.
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So the audience gets a
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totally different experience,
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depending on what they're paying attention
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to.
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I think there's stuff that you'll,
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like, oh, I was watching the screen
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and I didn't even see how they were
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doing it.
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And again, everything
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is made entirely out
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of cardboard.
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It's kind of funny to me, too, the
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contrast of all this, like,
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high-tech camera computer
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system projectors and
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then just cardboard.
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Frohart has been rehearsing with her
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team all week before the show
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opens tomorrow.
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We want to be above, we want to like
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be at the pallets, right?
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Yeah, you want to make sure you
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don't cover it.
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Hi, I'm Admiral Gray and
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I'm an artist helping to
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develop Shopping Center of the Year.
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By Robin Frohart.
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Gray has been fixing props and
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backdrops and figuring out
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how to adapt all these moving pieces
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to the McCullough Theater.
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Am attaching a
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tiny invisible string to
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a piece of cardboard for
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a little two-dimensional
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Canada goose puppet to
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look like it's floating on
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cardboard water.
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Does that make any sense?
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Gray shows me another prop.
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It's a street sweeper.
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Even the little brushes underneath
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the truck are made of cardboard.
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It zooms in on these.
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Brushes, like cleaning.
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Brohart sees these at her home depot
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in New York.
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Call it the parking lot zamboni.
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That's what she calls it.
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We call them jabroni.
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It's worth mentioning that Frohart
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collected most of the cardboard from
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her home depot and the surrounding
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neighborhood.
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It's a very self-reflective
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show and also doesn't take
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itself very seriously, too.
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She says parking lots and
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big box stores take away
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from a city's charm.
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Austin, they want to go to the
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old part of town where all the
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individually run businesses and bars
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and restaurants are.
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That's the charm of most cities,
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it's uniqueness and people really
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crave that but then we're like
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covering every town and these places
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that could be anywhere which
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makes them feel like nowhere
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and they're just these
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vast oceans of beige.
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FroHardt shows us how these spaces
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have their own sort
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of ecosystem.
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Even this Home Depot parking lot is
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a part of nature.
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It's teeming with fauna.
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There are day laborers
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that are at every entrance.
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A couple amazing tamale vendors
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nearby.
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There are lots of cannibal
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collectors with their
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carts.
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Some people gathering sticks for
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their nests, I say, with their
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lumber carts.
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If you're curious to see all this
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with your own eyes, you can get
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tickets at the Texas Performing Arts
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website.
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There's a show Friday night and
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another one Saturday afternoon.
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Shopping Center of the Universe is
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touring across the country.
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Frohart says she loved seeing the
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audience's reactions at the show in
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Massachusetts.
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People were like, I've never, I
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always felt this, but I didn't know
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how to say it. And I was like, well,
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I didn't really say it directly.
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I like, can't, I can't build
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all this stuff.
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It's actually incredibly moving.
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People cry, but I
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hope that they laugh,
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like, equally as much, like,
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because that's kind of the balance
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of hope and despair.
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She says, you'll definitely
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think about this show the next
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time you're in a parking lot.
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For KT's Art Beat, I'm Maia Fawaz
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in Austin.
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All right, a nice little
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radio story there here on Austin
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Signal. Love to hear that,
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especially from a familiar voice,
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Maya Fawaz there.
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Well, speaking of a familiar name,
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now we are joined by KUT art
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beat editor, Stephanie Frederico,
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back to tell us more about what is
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happening in Austin this weekend.
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Howdy, Stephanie.
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Hi Jerry.
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I'm glad you're here with us
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because, you know,
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this is the weekend before South by
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Southwest, which means there are
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lots of people heading into town.
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People are going to be in cars,
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waymos all over the place.
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So it's a nice weekend to maybe go
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out and enjoy the city so that next
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weekend you can play things chill.
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What's happening?
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What's on your radar this weekend?
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Oh my God, there's so many great
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things happening this weekend,
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including that Robin Frohart show
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that Maya just told us about at
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the McCullough theater.
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I'm super excited about that.
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You're going
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I am going, I'm very lucky to get,
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to have gotten tickets.
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Um, a lot of things also on my
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radar, like, uh, Austin Creative
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Alliance is hosting a new, an
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open house at their new space.
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Um, tomorrow or sorry,
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tomorrow's Friday.
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Tomorrow's Friday, so that's how
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this event's happening Saturday,
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correct? Saturday, yes.
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Saturday. Yes, let's get it right.
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Um...
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Open house on Saturday at their new
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space. I did a story back in
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November about them moving into
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property on this church down
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at 11th and Guadalupe.
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So the tenants are all moved in,
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they've got this new space,
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affordable studio space that they're
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renting out to artists,
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and everybody's all in there now, so
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they're having a big open house on
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Saturday. There'll be performances,
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there'll be art workshops and things
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like that, and that sounds like it
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should be really cool.
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Okay, I want you to tell me about
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this show called Clockwork
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because clocks are a big
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part of my life, you know,
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especially on the radio, you have to
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follow a clock.
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So what's going on there?
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That is an artist.
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Her name is Sable Elise Smith.
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She's from New York and she has an
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opening
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Tomorrow, okay
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She has an open reception for
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her exhibit at the Contemporary on
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Friday. It's a free
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Reception for her for
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her Exhibit called clockwork and
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it's on view until August 2nd
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And the pieces that she created over
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the last five years include
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sculpture some video neon
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and some works on paper It
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just looks really cool if you go to
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the Contemporary's website and kind
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of look at some of her art.
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It just, it looks like it could be a
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really nice exhibit, so.
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Okay cool happening on Saturday
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is this a power point night I'm
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interested in this because one of
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our mutual friends used to do these
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like Sunday gatherings at her house
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where she would have all these
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PowerPoint presentations on various
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topics does this this
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one that's happening on Saturday
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does it have a theme or what kind of
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stories are being told there.
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Well, the funny thing about that is
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our friend who used to have these
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symposiums, we used to use...
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We used to use symposia.
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Yes.
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Symposiums, we used to have the
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computer and we would do these
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PowerPoint presentations, but the
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one this weekend at the Museum of
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Human Achievement, there's no
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computers.
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So I think it's just gonna be
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really funny and creative.
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The woman behind it who's hosting
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it, Roxie Castillo,
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I just think she's really creative
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and hilarious.
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And can I read you the description?
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Do we have time?
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Because I think the description that
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they have on website is just...
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It's, you know, you'll want to go.
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It's bonkers.
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The description says, come learn
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question mark about how Jim
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Henson really died,
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food and the ear canal, what
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THC drinks have to do with the
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scouts, and new takes on
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cryptid classics.
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Prepare yourself for a sampler
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platter of five minute conspiracy
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board style presentations
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illuminating shocking new
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connections we might have seen
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sooner if we just opened our minds,
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a little man.
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Uh, so there's like
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five presenters or actually,
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I'm not sure how many presenters,
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but they get, yeah, they get five
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minutes each to just go up and
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tell, give their little
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presentations. And so that sounds
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like it could be fun.
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Okay?
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Sliding scale on that, it could be
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free, it's up to $10, depending
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on what you want to pay.
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I'd love to hear that.
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Okay, well let's wrap up with
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something that's happening tomorrow.
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This is a screening of some kind.
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What's happening there?
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Oh, this is at Alienated Majestic,
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and it's brought to,
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it is a screening of different
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literary adaptations from film,
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and is hosted by the Bat City Cinema
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at the bookstore.
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And they'll be showing 16-millimeter
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film features of works by like Franz
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Kafka, Isaac Asimov,
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and Ogden Marsh, and others, and
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just sounds like it could be really,
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be quite cool.
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Okay well lots to check out this
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weekend before I let you get out of
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here it is membership drive time
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and I think like you know we're just
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taking a little bit of time to
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highlight the work that we have been
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doing throughout the year.
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What do you what are you most proud
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of of the work you've been doing at
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the Art Beat? Obviously we're
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telling these really cool art
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stories and that are really sound
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rich right but you're also
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presenting community opportunities
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that maybe are more accessible than
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other things in the art community.
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Yeah, we're trying to present a
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mix of things that might be
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interesting to our
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audience, showcase
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some local artists,
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talk about accessibility and
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affordability and.
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That's perfect, that is the
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kind of storytelling that we are
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able to do here because of
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listener support and Artbeat is one
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of the great things that we have
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added this year and we're trying to
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add more and more things like the
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Austin signal, which you're tuning
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into right now.
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That is the Artbeat editor,
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Stephanie Federico.
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Stephanie, thanks for being here
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with us.
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My pleasure, Jerry.
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And thank you out there for spending
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your afternoon or your day, whatever
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time you're listening.
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