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Shutdown is over, but airport delays are still expected · Austin Signal

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The government shutdown may be over,
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but its impacts are still being felt
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here in Austin and across the
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country.
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That includes out at Austin's
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airport, which was already dealing
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with an air traffic controller
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shortage prior to the 43-day
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shutdown.
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We're gonna take a visit out to the
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airport. And foreign exchange
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students in Texas schools could be
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prohibited from participating in
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varsity athletics in the near
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future.
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The move still requires approval
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from the state's education
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commissioner.
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We're going to talk more about why
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the change is being made and what
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it'll mean for students.
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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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Plus, a popular Asian market in
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North Austin is shutting their doors
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for good at the end of the year.
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We'll chat with the owner of Hana
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World Market.
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That's coming up next, and it's here
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on Austin Signal.
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Howdy out there.
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It is November 14th.
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It is a Friday.
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We are glad you're here with us on
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Austin Signal.
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This is listener powered public
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radio coming to you from Austin,
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Texas. I'm your host, Jerry
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Keconnell. Thank you for being here.
1:20
A quick headline ahead of today's
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show. Texas was front and center in
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the efforts to ban hemp products
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containing THC
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before Congress passed a
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national ban as part of the
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legislation to end the federal
1:33
shutdown.
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Now, Texas could bear one of the
1:36
highest costs of almost any state.
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Bo Whitney is a consultant to the
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hemp industry who says the move
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could displace some 40,000
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workers here in the state, and he
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says the law is worded in such a
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way as to discourage farmers from
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planting any hemp whatsoever.
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Texas is currently one of the
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largest agricultural producers of
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hemp in the country. That's
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according to the U.S.
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Department of Agriculture.
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To read more about how Whitney
2:01
expects the hemp ban to affect Texas
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and Texans.
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Head on over to KUT.org.
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Well, today was supposed to be
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the day the Federal Aviation
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Administration required the nation's
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largest airports to cut a full
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10% of scheduled flights.
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But as you might have heard by now,
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the federal government shutdown
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ended Wednesday night.
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So those flight reductions are being
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held at 6% for now
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as more air traffic controllers
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return to work.
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Austin-Bergstrom International
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Airport was not among the
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40 airports required to cancel
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flights and, as KUT's
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Nathan Bernier reports, the risk of
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flight delays to Austin remains.
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If you walked up to random travelers
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near baggage claim at ABIA on
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the last day of the government
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shutdown, you might be hard-pressed
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to find someone with much to
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complain about.
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Everything went fairly well, very
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smooth.
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I had no delays.
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So we were fine coming down
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and our flight was good so
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all good.
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Nothing went wrong with the flight.
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They took off on time, landed early.
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Baggage claim was a breeze, so I
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have no complaints.
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That was Lily Molina, Joe Potter,
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and Breonna Maland.
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Now, it wasn't always this smooth at
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Austin's airport during the
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government shutdown.
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At least four times since
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it started, the FAA issued a
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ground delay for Austin.
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That's when they limit the number of
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flights that can land per hour,
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because the air traffic control
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tower is too short-staffed.
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And this is a control tower that is
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always short- staffed.
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They have about 30 fully certified
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controllers, and they're supposed to
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have 60 under staffing target
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set by the FAA and the Union.
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You're seeing a fragile,
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stressed-out system, and it's just
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highlighted because of a government
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shutdown, but this is a struggle
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we've been facing for many years.
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John Bratcher is with the National
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Air Traffic Controllers Association,
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that's the controllers union, and he
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represents the southwestern U.S.,
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including Austin.
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Bratcher says controllers received
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nothing on their last two paychecks.
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Now they're waiting on weeks of back
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pay and trying to stabilize their
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finances without really having a
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chance to catch a breath.
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You have people at Austin that are
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working six days a week that if a
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controller is not fully filling
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well, nobody wants somebody that's
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got a cold or a flu to come in and
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plug in and work airplanes like that
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at that high volume.
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And so you have somebody, if you
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lose one or two bodies, then
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you find yourself in a staffing
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trigger, you find yourself in a
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critical staffing situation.
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And that's what you're seeing.
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And that's when the FAA can issue
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a ground delay.
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He said controllers had to call in
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sick for a bunch of different
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reasons, like having a child sick at
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home and a spouse whose income was
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paying the rent.
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So now that federal employees will
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eventually get paid again,
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it relieves some of the pressure on
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Austin's control tower.
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But those with experience in the
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aviation industry say the shutdown
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will leave scars that will last for
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years.
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Chad Kendall is an FAA instructor
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at Metropolitan State University of
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Denver.
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He says the shutdown drove some
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controllers out of the profession
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and will make recruiting their
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replacements all the more difficult.
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This is going to have a ripple
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effect for a very long time.
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And I can't put a pulse on anything
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as far as getting back to normal.
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That's gonna take some time to see,
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but it certainly has played a major
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effect on many areas of
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the industry.
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Things that the passengers can see,
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things that passengers cannot see.
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Meanwhile, Austin-Berksham
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International Airport keeps
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expanding.
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The number of average daily non-stop
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departures this month is up to
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257.
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Compared to last November, that's an
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increase of 8%.
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But it won't matter how many non-
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stop flights Austin has, if the
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tower doesn't have enough
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controllers to land them all safely.
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I'm Nathan Bernier in Austin.
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This is Austin Signal,
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thank you for joining us.
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As soon as next school year, foreign
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exchange students could no longer
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be allowed to participate in varsity
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sports at Texas public schools.
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School administrators have voiced
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concerns that some schools are
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getting a competitive advantage with
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those foreign exchange student.
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Now the change still needs the
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approval of State Education
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Commissioner Mike Morath to go into
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effect. And here to tell us more
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about this new rule and about this
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story in general is KUT's Williamson
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County reporter, Kailey Hunt.
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Howdy Kailey, how are you?
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Hey Jerry, I'm good, how are you?
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I'm doing okay.
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I think we both said we're glad it's
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Friday and we're glad you're here
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with us on Austin Signal.
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So, you know, start with a personal
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anecdote. I participated in UIL
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activities, both, you
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know, sports and academics and
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creative writing.
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I don't mean to brag, but, and I
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tend to keep a track of the bigger
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events that are going on, you know,
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like we talked earlier, high school
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football playoffs here on the UT
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campus, Texas relays, always a
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big thing. But this story was
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off of my radar, what made
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the UIL take such an action in the
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first place?
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Yeah, so basically
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this decision was made when the
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UIL's legislative body, that's
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their rule-making body that's made
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up of public school administrators
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from all over the state of Texas.
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When they met up a few weeks
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ago, they brought
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forth a proposal that essentially
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bans foreign exchange students from
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participating in varsity sports.
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And they said that this comes after
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years of expressed
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by their coaches and
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administrators on campuses,
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they argue that
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foreign exchange students get that
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competitive advantage, right?
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When they're able to just show up,
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get a waiver and immediately play
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varsity.
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They say that's not fair to the
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Texas kids who have been going
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through the whole school system, you
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know, all the athletic programs
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working their way up to varsity
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This is something that we talk about
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a lot. I feel more so like in
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college athletics, it used to be
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that if you transferred to school
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you had to wait out a year,
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but there is a lot going on
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with college athletics when it comes
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to the portal and transferring.
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I'm wondering if that's more of a
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prevalent problem in high school
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athletics.
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Are there Texas high schools that
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are recruiting Australian punters
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or Romanian gymnasts?
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Is this an epidemic in Texas
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public schools?
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I mean, you know, it's hard
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to say whether or whether or not
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that's true. But I will say
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Aaron Hood, who's the superintendent
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of Robert Lee ISD that's
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just north of San Angelo, you
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he brought forth this proposal to
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the UIL and he said that
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he had personally seen some foreign
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exchange students use social media
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to promote themselves to
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Texas coaches, you know including
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things like height, weight, their
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position and stuff on their
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profiles, which
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you know. He says
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is not fair.
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That's interesting.
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Yeah, I mean, because a lot of high
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school students tend to brag about,
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you know, their stats and showing
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off for the availability of a future
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college program.
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Again, you can read more about what
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some of these administrators had to
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say at KUT.org
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in Kailey's story.
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I wanted to ask you about something
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else. This change would affect
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foreign exchange students playing
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varsity sports.
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So it wouldn't really matter when it
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comes to JV or freshman teams,
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as I understand it.
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This is just about varsity sport.
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And it doesn't affect either
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other programs at
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the UIO overseas, like music and
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academics.
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But I got to imagine that some of
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the draw for these exchange students
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is like the pageantry, right?
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The Friday night lights, so the big
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the big, the big table,
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the big screen getting to
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participate in some of those things.
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It has to be a draw, correct?
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Yeah, that's right.
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You know, I talked to a lady
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named Tracy.
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She is a representative
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or organizer for one of these
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organizations that helps, you
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know, coordinate these exchange
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programs. And she told me
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about one of the students that she's
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hosting right now.
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He was able to play varsity
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football. He had never played
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football in his life before, but the
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big draw was he'd always heard about
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Texas Friday Night Lights, right?
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So yeah, he went out
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and got to have that experience this
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past semester.
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That might not be the case starting
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next year.
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OK, as you mentioned, this was
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a UIL legislative council.
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It's a 32-member council
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that voted on this rule change.
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So they have initiated that part.
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But as I mentioned, the rule still
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needs approval from State
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Education Commissioner Mike
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Morath to go into effect.
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What are the next steps?
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What happens next?
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Yeah. So, I mean, like you said,
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the real next step is just seeing if
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the state education commissioner
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will approve the
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change and then yeah,
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starting next school year, this
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new rule would go into effect.
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Is there any timetable about when we
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might expect to hear from the
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Commissioner, or is that still in
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the early stages?
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Still in the early stages to my
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knowledge.
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Okay. Well, like I said, you can
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read more about this story over at
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K U T dot org.
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As I mentioned, a high school
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football playoffs are getting
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underway this week.
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A lot of local teams being featured
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in that.
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And I mentioned collegiate sports
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as well. There's a big game going on
11:01
this week and Kailey happening
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tomorrow. A big top 10 matchup
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between number 10 Texas.
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They'll be on the road to face the
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Georgia Bulldogs.
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Georgia currently fifth in the
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country.
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As I said. Texas is number 10.
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From everything that's been going
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around the team this season,
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it's felt like kind of a bad
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year, but are they still
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in a good spot to possibly make like
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the college football playoff?
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Yeah, I mean, actually, if you,
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you know, go to the college,
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the latest college football
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rankings, playoff rankings,
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they actually released the
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updated version two days ago.
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They have Texas currently within
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their bracket.
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So, you, know, as long as Texas
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takes care of business, granted,
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they do have probably two
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of the toughest games.
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That's right.
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Tomorrow, they're gonna be going up
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against Georgia. Who's the other
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opponent that's still.
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You got Texas A&M, you got the
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Aggies next week, right, who
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look fantastic this year.
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So that's going to be a real
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challenge, but no,
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even though they've had so many ups
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and downs, yeah, they're in a really
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good position.
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They're still controlling their
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destiny. As we said, they're on the
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road tomorrow to face a
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number five, Georgia.
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Then they'll be at home next week to
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play Arkansas.
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And then after Thanksgiving, they'll
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be taking on Texas A&M in a big
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game. And we have been speaking with
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KUT's Williamson County reporter,
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Kailey Hunt, covering a little bit
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of everything as usual.
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Kailey, we appreciate your reporting
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and thank you for coming on Austin
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Signal.
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Thanks, Jerry.
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And thank you out there for spending
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part of your Friday here with
12:32
listener powered public radio.
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This is KUT News,
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we got more coming up after
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one minute.
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Thank you for tuning in.
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This is Austin Signal.
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I'm Jerry Quijano.
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Hana World Market announced this
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month that they're closing their
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doors for good come the end of 2025
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after many years of business at
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their location in far North Austin.
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And amid the news of the closing,
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the store announced on their
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Facebook page that their
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refrigeration system was vandalized
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and that forced an emergency sale.
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The news of closure prompted a
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feeling of sadness and nostalgia
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among the many Austinites who've
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been visiting the store for years.
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YunHui Lee is owner of Hana World
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Market. She's with us today on
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Austin Signal.
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YunHui, thank you for joining us.
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Thank you for having me.
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So I wanna ask first, how long
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has Hano World Market been a part of
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Austin and how long has your family
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been a a part of Austin business?
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Hana World Market opened in 2012,
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but my parents owned New Orleans
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Market, which started in early
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2000.
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And what made you want to run
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a grocery store, open your own
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store? Was it like part of the
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family business? Where did that come
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from?
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No, it kind of fell in my lap.
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My parents were closing their store
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and they were going out of business
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and then this opportunity
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presented itself.
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And then, so my parents needed
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something to do.
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I was kind of not really
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looking to do it, but like I said,
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it just kind of fell in lap and we
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were able to put it together.
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Yeah.
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For anybody out there who might be
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unfamiliar with Hana World Market,
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what do you do?
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We're an Asian grocery store,
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predominantly we have Vietnamese,
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Chinese, Korean, Japanese.
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I'm sure you had this preconceived
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notion of what I'm running a
14:16
business might be like here in
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Austin How is it different in your
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year since 2012?
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How has it played out different from
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what you expected?
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It might be
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Well, when we first started, we were
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one of the biggest markets.
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But then when I think it
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was in 2018,
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Ranch 99 came in and H Mart
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came in. And after that,
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the smaller markets were kind of
14:38
struggling because we don't have the
14:39
buying power like the national
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markets do.
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And so in the beginning, it was
14:43
very small and
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we had very loyal customers.
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But then, when the bigger markets
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came in, it just became harder and
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harder.
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For, you know, the smaller
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businesses to survive and be
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competitive.
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What's been the reaction from the
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customers who've heard the news and
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have been visiting the store?
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It's been overwhelming.
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And I, we, as a company,
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we were just felt so blessed because
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the community came out when we
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had the sale.
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We had so many people come out and
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then we had several people that came
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out and were like, I don't need the
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discount. Just charge me.
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Um, gave, you know, wanted to give
15:18
donations, asked if we had
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a go fund me page.
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And you know they wanted to do the
15:23
donations, but we don't have
15:24
anything set up.
15:25
And so just the amount of people
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that come out, we were.
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So overwhelmed because,
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an example, one person put
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on their Facebook or Snapchat
15:35
or something, and they had said, oh,
15:37
they're closing, go out, and
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if you can't, just buy one of their
15:40
shopping bags.
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That day, we sold out
15:43
of the shopping bags, and that's how
15:45
awesome that all the customers have
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been, and customers that
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moved away, like to South Austin
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or way out to Round Rock,
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and were customers when they lived
15:54
closer, they came in and was like,
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We shopped with you when we were
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at you know, when you first opened,
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we just wanted to come back and give
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you some support.
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Very sad that you're closing.
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And so we feel very,
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very blessed that we,
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that the customers have been coming
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back and, you know providing
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the support.
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As I was scrolling through your
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Facebook page, it was a nice
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nostalgic trip back into
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Austin, and did you think
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you were going to create these kind
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of lasting relationships with people
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when you, you know, kind of were
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forced into this job in 2012?
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Not really, I think one thing that
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I remember is like a customer,
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one of our customers had come
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in and she had
16:35
taken her card out and she left her
16:37
purse in the parking lot in
16:39
the shopping cart, but she had over
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$3,000 worth of cash.
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As one does.
16:45
Yes, one does carry a lot of cash,
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our customers are such good
16:49
grounded people, we had the customer
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come back, bring in the purse,
16:53
the money was intact and stuff
16:55
like that.
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I just feel that
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just the community itself,
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Austin has grown so
17:02
much, but when we
17:04
first started, it just felt that
17:06
all of our customers were like
17:07
family members too.
17:08
Like we're like one of those
17:10
neighborhood things like, you know,
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cheers when the customer comes in.
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My uncle actually has
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this memory where he could remember
17:18
everybody's name, but
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it's kind of bittersweet because
17:22
the business aspect of it
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has been very, very difficult.
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You know, not only, you know,
17:29
the bigger companies coming in, but
17:31
with raising, you
17:32
know, the price increases,
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the rent and electricity utilities,
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all that.
17:37
And then this year with all the
17:39
increases in tariffs, because we
17:41
import all of all the stuff that we
17:43
get is imported.
17:45
So that has had a crucial
17:47
impact in us.
17:48
How big of an impact was it,
17:50
maybe financially, but also
17:52
the not knowing as to
17:53
when things were going to be
17:55
enforced? How did that impact your
17:56
year particularly?
17:57
Well, what,
17:59
you know, not only the price
18:01
increases, but because the price
18:03
increases impacted our
18:05
vendors that provided us the
18:06
materials, they
18:08
were not stocking
18:10
up as much products
18:12
because they didn't want to be
18:14
strapped because they didn't t know
18:15
if the end user, us, the buyers were
18:17
going to buy as much as they had.
18:19
So, you, know, we were not only
18:20
faced with the price increases, that
18:22
we were facing.
18:26
Not being able to get the products
18:28
in store.
18:29
So that, I think,
18:31
made it even more complicated.
18:33
To try and plan ahead, right?
18:34
Yeah, we're always talking here at
18:36
KUT about planning for the
18:38
future and that really hamstrings
18:40
you when you don't know what
18:42
to expect next.
18:43
Yes, because prime example,
18:45
we would order and say, for example,
18:48
we would have three pages of orders
18:50
that we placed.
18:51
Well, when they would deliver one
18:53
and a half pages would be out of
18:55
stock because, you know, the
18:56
suppliers were not able to get the
18:58
products in as well.
18:59
And then it impacts us and
19:01
then it's like the prices are going
19:02
up, but we don't have the products
19:04
to sell. So then that
19:06
both has an impact on our bottom
19:08
line. So it's been pretty difficult.
19:10
The announcement was made that
19:11
you're gonna be closing by the end
19:13
of 2025.
19:14
Not really a firm date to just kind
19:16
of going off of vibes a little bit.
19:18
Now that you've had some time to
19:19
reflect on the news that the store
19:20
is actually going to close and
19:22
you've heard some reaction from the
19:23
community. And I'm sure that there's
19:25
a lot of stress that's gonna be gone
19:27
as well, right?
19:28
But I'm there was a lot a joy that
19:30
the story brought to you every day,
19:31
the interactions brought.
19:32
What are you gonna miss about that?
19:33
I think the people, the customers,
19:35
that aspect is what I'm
19:37
gonna miss about the most.
19:39
Everything else I can do without,
19:41
but the people that come in.
19:48
Thankful and you know,
19:50
there's customers that have been
19:51
coming for like 12 years,
19:53
you know So I will miss
19:55
them the most I think
19:57
Yeah, as I said, there was a lot of
19:59
sadness, a lot people noting that
20:00
they had been going to your store
20:01
since they were in their youth or
20:03
when they were middle school.
20:04
It's a nice neighborhood walk over.
20:07
So lots to miss.
20:09
Again, Hana World Market announced
20:10
they're gonna be closing at the end
20:11
of the year.
20:13
For an Austinite who's still here
20:14
right now, maybe has never been to
20:16
Hana world market, what can they
20:18
expect when they make the trip up
20:19
north to visit y'all?
20:21
Well, it'll be a little bit
20:22
different because our shelves are
20:23
kind of empty, but we
20:25
are having one last shipment.
20:27
Like I said, we're going to try to
20:28
stay open as long as we can.
20:30
But I think what, what I
20:32
hope people feel when they come
20:34
in, it is more like a
20:36
family atmosphere.
20:37
We're more like neighborhood family
20:39
market more than anything.
20:41
Do you think you're going to be
20:42
getting any more tote bags and of
20:43
these tote bags?
20:46
We would get them we would
20:48
yeah, it takes long to produce.
20:50
So no, no
20:51
So if you're listening right now and
20:52
you have one of those tote bags
20:53
you've got a classic item right
20:55
there Hold on to it tight.
20:56
We have been speaking with YunHui
20:58
Lee the owner of Hana world market
20:59
They plan to close their doors at
21:01
the end of 2025 uni.
21:04
Thank you for your time today and
21:05
congratulations on all your hard
21:06
work Thank you, and
21:08
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21:10
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21:12
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Among the many things that we
21:32
covered this week, four months
21:34
on from historic flooding in central
21:36
Texas, families of victims
21:38
of the July 4th flooding in the Hill
21:40
Country are suing Camp Mystic.
21:42
Alleging that they failed to take
21:43
the proper precautions to protect
21:45
their campers and counselors.
21:47
Also, the city of Austin is
21:49
making hard budget cuts after
21:51
this month's failure of Proposition
21:53
Q at the ballot box.
21:55
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22:05
contributed to today's show,
22:07
YunHui Li from Hana Market.
22:09
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22:11
Kailey Hunt, and Trey Schar out
22:13
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22:14
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22:24
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22:26
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22:28
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22:29
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