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HOPE Outdoor Gallery reopens at new location · Austin Signal

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The sobering center in Austin has
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provided an alternative to jail
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or hospitalization since 2018.
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And since then, they've been
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offering people one night to sober
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up and get on with their life.
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Well, now they're looking to help
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folks build a new journey just
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beyond that one night of respite.
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And after many delays, the Hope
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Outdoor Gallery is finally
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back open.
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The new 6,000-foot space
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is working to maintain the try
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anything vibe that made its original
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spot so very Austin.
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The Austin Signal is a production of
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K UT News, hosted by Jerry
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Quijano.
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Plus as we grow deeper into the
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holiday season, businesses in
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downtown Austin are looking to
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attract more shoppers.
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How are they doing that?
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Find out next.
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That's coming up here on Austin
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Signal.
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Howdy out there, Austin.
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It is Monday, the first day
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of December 2025.
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About two percent of the
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way through the year.
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And you know, it's not always the
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case here in Texas, but today it
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absolutely feels like the first day
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of December.
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Currently 43 degrees
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out at Camp Mabry as we're recording
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this in the afternoon.
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And tonight here in Austin, we're
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expecting lows right around 36
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degrees and freezing temperatures
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up in the hill country.
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So have multiple ways to
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stay weather or where.
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And of course, keep it tuned in here
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to KUT News for
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the latest.
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This is Austin Signal.
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We're glad you're here with us.
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A quick headline from the KUT
1:50
Newsroom. The city of Pflugerville
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will receive a $176
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million loan from the U.S.
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Environmental Protection Agency
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for water and wastewater projects.
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City officials say the funding will
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be used for multiple projects to
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modernize drinking water and
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wastewater infrastructure.
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That includes a new wastewater
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treatment plant and expanding
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and consolidating current wastewater
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collection systems.
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Part of the loan will fund an
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ongoing project to address growth in
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the Wilbarger and Cottonwood
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basins. We're gonna have more coming
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up this afternoon on all things
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considered.
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We're glad you're here with us.
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The Austin Sobering Center has
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expanded its services to folks who
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need more than just a place to sober
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up.
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For more about this story, we are
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bringing in Katy McAfee.
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She is K U T's Travis County
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reporter and she's here with us in
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the studio. Howdy, Katy.
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Hey Jerry.
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We are glad you're joining with
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joining here on the Austin
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Signal.
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Let's talk about the Sobering
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Center. We chatted a little bit
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prior to the show, but I
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have an inkling of what it is, but
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just give lay it out.
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What is the Austin Sobering Center?
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Yeah, so for folks who don't know,
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the sobering center opened in twenty
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eighteen and at the time the
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idea was for the sobering center to
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be a place that publicly intoxicated
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people could go to.
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That wasn't the emergency room
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or the jail.
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Those places historically have been
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really tight on resources,
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and what Austin Police and
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EMS found was people who are
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publicly intoxicated don't always
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need to go there.
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So since then this has been a place
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where people can go and be dropped
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off. It's centrally located
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downtown, have a
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snack, sober up under supervision,
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and then sort of leave the next day.
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And is this this is a collaboration
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between Travis County and the city
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of Austin?
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Yeah, that's correct.
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So this was kind of the brainchild
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of Travis County judge Andy Brown,
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but it really is like an all
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hands on deck kind of effort because
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we have EMS dropping people off,
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APD dropping people off, and Travis
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County working on it as well.
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Well, as you mentioned, they have
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been doing this since twenty
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eighteen and I know you got a chance
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to talk with some folks there.
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How have things been working out
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since then?
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Yeah, so it's been working out
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really well so far.
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But what people at the sobering
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center started to notice was they
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had a lot of people repeatedly
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coming in.
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Ashlyn Branscombe, she's a licensed
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social worker at the Sobering
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Center, what told me about one man
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who came in in and out, in and
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out, seventy-five times
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in a one hundred and thirty-five day
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period. Okay.
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Yeah. And you know, toward
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the end of that he said, Okay,
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guys, he resolved to stop
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drinking. He said, This is the last
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time you're gonna see me and folks
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at the sobering center said, Okay,
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well, if you're serious about that,
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can we connect you with medical
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resources?
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Because you can die from
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alcohol withdrawal.
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Okay.
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And Brandscombe told me i a light
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bulb just went off in her head at
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that point and she said, You know,
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the sobering center could be more
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than just a place where people sober
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up for a night, but it can be sort
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of the first touch point in
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someone's journey to long term
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recovery.
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And now they're looking to expand on
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what they're doing. They're trying
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to to fulfill that that
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idea. How are they doing so?
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Yeah, so this expansion just wrapped
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up last week.
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What they did was the sobering
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center always had this second floor,
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but they weren't utilizing it.
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So over this past year they
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renovated the second floor and
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they added 14 beds.
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This floor has lots of windows and
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natural light and it's just a space
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that works better for
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long-term recovery compared to the
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downstairs area right now, which is
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really just the space where people
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hang out for a temporary amount of
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time.
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So now how this can work is
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if people are looking for long-term
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recovery, they can just take an
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elevator upstairs and folks at
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the sobering center can
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connect them to a rehabilitation
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center where they can go to get
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long-term help.
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And again, from what you've heard
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from the staff at the center, that's
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g really gonna make a huge
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difference, right? For just having
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that one floor of separation is
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gonna allow people to just have
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a little bit more space to go
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through their process, right?
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Yeah, exactly.
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Because this isn't entirely new.
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The sobering center has been trying
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to connect people to long term
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rehabilitation centers for a while,
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but the issue they ran
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into was they didn't have space
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to separate people who are starting
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their sort of long term recovery
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journey from people who are
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there sobering up initially.
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And it was really difficult for
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people to sort of get into this
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recovery headspace where in their
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they are in the same room as people
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who are actively intoxicated
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and in the process of sobering
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up. So just having a new floor
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and a new space where people can
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kind of get into a different
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headspace, they said has is going
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to be really helpful.
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As you mentioned, those renovations
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were completed last week.
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That's right.
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And I know they're having an ongoing
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celebration for that and a
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fundraising event as part of Giving
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Tuesday. That is happening tomorrow.
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We're gonna have a link to that in
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our show notes.
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That is KUT dot org
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slash Austin Signal.
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We have been speaking to Katy
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McAfee.
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She is KUT's Travis County reporter.
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Thanks for the update, Katy.
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Thanks for having me on, Jerry.
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As downtown restaurants and bars
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head into what is, you know, usually
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supposed to be one of their busiest
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times of the year, construction
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is not making things so
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very holly jolly.
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But KUT's Nathan Bernier
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reports on a new incentive meant to
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lure people back downtown.
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Half priced Uber rides
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through the holidays.
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I-35 is expanding,
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skyscrapers are rising,
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but one construction project is
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proving to be the most disruptive of
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all to downtown restaurants and
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bars, the redevelopment of the
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Austin Convention Center.
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You can feel the vibration, the
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noise level is just freaking loud
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that it's unbearable to even sit
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outside.
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Joe Nguyen is operations manager at
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Moonshine Grill on Red River
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Street. This restaurant's been
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serving Southern Comfort Food for
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more than twenty years, directly
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across the street from the
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convention center.
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You know, I had a guest the other
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day. We were sitting next to the
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window inside and I mean they were
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drilling or doing something.
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I mean, you're my our building
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shaking. I mean, this is a
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historical building.
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You know, it's shaking and whatever
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they're doing is just wow.
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I can't believe it. It's that as
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loud as it is.
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What they're doing is virtually
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doubling the size of the Austin
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Convention Center.
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It's a $1.6 billion
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project, paid for with the city's
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hotel occupancy tax and convention
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center revenues.
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But it's not scheduled to open until
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2029.
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So that means Austin's downtown bars
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and restaurants will have to go
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years without the hundreds of
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thousands of visitors drawn to
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the city each year for all the
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different conventions.
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I mean the lunch business is down
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seventy percent, right?
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Overall we're down thirty to forty
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percent with the road closures, the
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fencing, reduced foot traffic.
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There's some people just assume like
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this whole area is shut down.
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You know, our public agencies have
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been clear with us that this
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construction is only going to really
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intensify over the next decade.
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So we are entering a period
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of public infrastructure
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investments which are really needed
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for our city.
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However, there is a little bit of
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pain involved in that.
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Vanessa Olson is with the Downtown
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Austin Alliance.
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It's a nonprofit that collects a tax
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from downtown property owners to
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improve and promote the district.
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Full disclosure, they also sponsor
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the KUT and KUTX Holiday Sing-Along,
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which is happening December 6th.
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But the Downtown Austin Alliance is
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experimenting with ways to help
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businesses affected by all the
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construction.
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And for December, they're trying
9:32
something new, paying for half
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the cost of anyone's Uber rides
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to and from downtown within a
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30-mile radius.
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The maximum subsidy is $40
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per ride, not including tip.
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This is a pilot program, so
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we are testing this program
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and many others to see what works
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to make sure people can still get to
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downtown, can still support those
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downtown businesses, and
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whatever works we hope to be
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able to deploy in the future.
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So to claim a voucher good for
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up to six rides, go
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to XOXO downtown
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Austin.com and just
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scroll till you find the promotion.
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The Downtown Austin Alliance has
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5,000 of these vouchers available.
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But Olsen says if people claim
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them all and then don't use them or
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only take short trips, they might
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release more vouchers around the
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middle of December.
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And even for businesses blocks away
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from the convention center, it's a
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welcome bit of help during a
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difficult time.
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Heather Potts is co-owner of
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Cedar Door and Foxy's
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Proper Pub.
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Which are both at second in
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Brazzard.
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I would say our sales are off by
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probably about twenty to twenty five
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percent with the effects of the
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convention center being torn down.
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I mean I guess when the convention
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center is built, is there the pot of
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gold at the end of the rainbow if if
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your business is
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You know, I that's definitely
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my hope. It's not going to be fun to
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weather these years while the
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convention center is down.
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But yes, I'm super excited about
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when it will be finished.
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Definitely. And I need a countdown
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clock.
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Those vouchers to get half-off Uber
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rides to or from downtown are valid
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from December 1st till January 1st
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at 8 a.m.
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To allow for a trip home after New
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Year's Eve, or until the Downtown
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Austin Alliance runs out of money
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for the program, whichever comes
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first. I'm Nathan Bernier in
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Austin.
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Coming up here on Austin Signal,
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we're gonna take a look back at the
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UT AM football game
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from Friday.
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I'm sure you know, plenty
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of folks are happy with the bragging
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rides that they've got right now.
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KUT's Jimmy Moss is gonna
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be with us. Plus, who remembers the
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Austin Graffiti Park that used to be
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off Lamar in downtown?
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Well, it's back, just in a
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different location now, and just had
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its grand opening.
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We'll hear more about the Hope
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Outdoor Gallery coming up after
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this. Stay with us.
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This is Austin Signal.
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Thanks for being with us today.
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The Hope Outdoor Gallery
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is back.
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After several delays at Open
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Friday in a new space near the
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airport, the property features
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curated pieces and a 6,000
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square foot gallery and event
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space. Visitors can pick up a can
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of spray paint and unleash their
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creativity on the exterior
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walls.
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As KUT's Stephanie Federico
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reports, the gallery owners are
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hoping to maintain that try
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anything vibe of its original
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location.
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Spray paint cans were once again
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rattling Friday at the Hope Outdoor
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Gallery.
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Visitors paint robots and band
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names, eyeballs and laboo-boos
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in all colors and sizes.
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People lift each other up to reach
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the tops of walls.
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Children gleefully spray purples
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and reds back and forth with wild
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abandons.
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Antonio Delgado watches as
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his family attacks the walls.
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I love that it's like there's
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different calibers of artists here,
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right? Like some new artists,
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some younger artists, you know, and
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then more formally trained artists.
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Delgado used to live three blocks
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away from the original location on
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Baylor Street in the Clarksville
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neighborhood.
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I would go and I'd sit with the song
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right there all the time.
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He said he was sad when the site
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closed in twenty nineteen, but he
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was excited to bring his family to
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the new spot.
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It's great to see like inside
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that we have this space that's like
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formal space that's championing
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mural art, you know, and then
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outside we've got space where we can
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just play and have fun and practice
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and they can learn through new
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mediums, you know.
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Yeah.
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The original Hope Outdoor Gallery
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was supposed to be temporary.
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The property had been vacant since
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the eighties.
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Founder Andy Skull got permission
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from the owners in 2009 for a
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graffiti park on the foundation of a
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failed condo development.
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She enlisted street artist Shepard
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Ferry for the first installation.
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He's best known for the Obey Giant
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and Obama Hope posters.
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He had helped Skull launch a
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campaign called Helping Other People
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Everywhere, or Hope, that connects
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artists to humanitarian causes.
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The towering concrete slabs
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became a canvas for anyone with a
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spray paint can, regardless
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of talent.
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New murals were painted over old
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ones on a regular basis.
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It was a living art exhibit that
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drew locals and tourists alike.
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That exhibit lasted nearly a
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decade.
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CK Chin, the new gallery's
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director of hospitality, says
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that's because the site was about
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more than just graffiti.
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On any given day you'll
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have someone putting up a mural,
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a random tourist that pop
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by to just look at some art,
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somebody doing breakdancing
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on top of a piece of concrete,
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a proposal happening in the corner.
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Founder Andy Skull says it also gave
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people a space to try new things.
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The coolest part about what we
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really learned in the ten years of
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the project was like
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this is where people are feeling
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safe to try and try
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things big and try weird
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things. I mean, it was weird
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sometimes to see someone
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practicing tap dancing at hope.
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But the tourist destination was
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fenced off in 2019.
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Work began on a luxury condo
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building. Skull and Chin knew
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they needed a permanent home for the
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gallery.
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It was really audacious and really
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kind of crazy to even consider,
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but like we said,
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you don't know what you can do or
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can't do until you try.
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Local artists and supporters pushed
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them to find a way for hope to live.
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They ultimately found the spot near
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the airport. The project stalled
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because of construction issues,
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permitting challenges, and the
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pandemic.
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But none of that mattered on Friday.
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The new site is part art park,
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part events center.
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There are curated murals outside
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and walls for the public to paint.
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Inside the gallery there's more
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artwork, a coffee shop, and a store
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to buy t-shirts and well spray
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paint.
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'Cause we're we're not gonna use all
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that spray paper in one go.
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We have to be real careful how we
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use it.
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So there's blue, there's
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kind of that pinkest.
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So we're so excited the first
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day already we got here, people
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already waiting.
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We it was an hour till opening
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and we're back.
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Skull is eager to bring back the old
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vibe too, one that's all about
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creating safe places for the
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creative community to come together.
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But she and Chin are also excited
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about what this new space will
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become.
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The coolest things about this park
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haven't even begin, haven't been
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thought of.
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Visitors Friday said they were
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inspired.
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Skull says she's here for whatever
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new ideas they dream up.
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I'm Stephanie Federico in
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Austin.
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All right, now let's do a little
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roundup of some Texas sports
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from the weekend.
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Here to help us out is KUT
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program director Jimmy Mass.
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Good afternoon, Jimmy.
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Good afternoon. Yeah, we're cool
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like that.
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Especially today, where it's a
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a very, very cold forty six degrees
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outside. Very good football weather.
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Very good, very cold.
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Exactly. The weekend provided
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some nice football weather and
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a nice result for the Texas football
17:02
team.
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Yeah, Texas they they
17:04
surprised some people.
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Certainly a lot of odds makers were
17:07
not I giving
17:09
the Longhorns good chances, but they
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you know, this was the number one
17:12
team in the country preseason and
17:14
they showed up in a big way
17:16
on Friday night, beating Texas
17:18
AM, ending
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Texas AM's
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perfect perfect season.
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They were aiming for a
17:25
a solid shot at at
17:27
at a national championship.
17:29
They still have that because of the
17:30
playoff system, but
17:32
they will not end the season
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at with zero losses.
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And they were t Texas A and M was
17:38
actually looking for their first SEC
17:40
championship game appearances.
17:41
They will not get to go that as
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either.
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That's right. That's right.
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And but you know,
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You know the interesting thing, I
17:47
think the biggest difference between
17:48
Texas this is my one joke for the
17:50
thing. Go ahead.
17:51
Let's do it. The biggest difference
17:52
between the A and M and Texas fans
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is A and M fans will be talking
17:55
about this a long, long, long time.
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Well, you know, one of my A and M
18:00
fans friend was
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t texting me and you
18:04
know, constantly shoving it in my
18:05
face that despite the fact that
18:07
Texas A and M lost, they were still
18:08
going to the playoffs, which doesn't
18:10
appear to be the case for Texas,
18:12
right? Or is it still possible?
18:14
So the the back end of
18:16
the playoffs.
18:16
So the the biggest problem with the
18:18
playoff initially and why it was
18:19
created was because the top four
18:21
were such so subjectively
18:23
decided and determined who was gonna
18:25
make it. You know, the are you in a
18:27
power five conference?
18:28
Are you the champion of this and
18:29
that? Are is second place
18:31
in the SEC better than the champion
18:33
of the ACC or whatever.
18:35
So they eliminated that largely.
18:37
It's still not everybody gets in,
18:39
just five champions of the five
18:41
conferences.
18:42
And then apparently there's another
18:43
rule that like basically everybody
18:45
in the top tier, the SEC also gets
18:46
in. That's what it's used to be.
18:48
So and now who is
18:50
on the back end of that top tier
18:52
of the SEC is up for
18:54
a sub another subjective debate
18:56
by the committee.
18:57
They will make a their second
18:59
to last, the
19:01
penultimate college
19:03
football ranking tomorrow night,
19:05
six o'clock.
19:06
That that will come out.
19:08
If Texas is in the top ten,
19:10
and that's a big if, if they are
19:12
in the top ten of this
19:14
last second to last ranking, there's
19:16
a reasonable shot that
19:18
opinion in the committee is on
19:20
their side.
19:21
If it if it is not if
19:23
they are not in the top ten, Texas
19:25
really needs a lot of really strange
19:27
things to occur this weekend,
19:30
really bad showings in conference
19:31
championship games, you
19:33
know, just things that might sway
19:35
someone.
19:36
You know, the eye test will
19:38
sway them to include Texas.
19:40
Now, Texas has a good resume this
19:42
year.
19:43
Everyone is disappointed with the
19:44
season, but you know, they beat
19:45
three top ten teams.
19:46
They did lose to two of them and
19:48
they lost to Ohio State.
19:50
The last team to beat
19:51
three top ten teams when they were
19:53
ranked at the time when they played
19:55
them was LSU in 2019.
19:57
LSU won the national championship
19:58
that year. Texas happened to be one
20:00
of those top ten teams that LSU
20:01
beat. So there is a
20:03
there is a resume there.
20:04
They beat Oklahoma, they beat AM.
20:07
Both of those teams are very likely
20:08
to be in the playoff.
20:09
There's there's a strong
20:11
chance that Texas could get
20:14
they could get a little bit of
20:16
luck on their side.
20:18
Only a not strong chance.
20:19
There is a chance, strong chances.
20:21
A chance exists, though.
20:22
Yes, there is a chance.
20:23
Now, betting odds, they don't even
20:24
include Texas in in this mix,
20:27
but it was just a single touchdown
20:28
loss to Ohio State in week one,
20:30
and that is the closest that anyone
20:32
has gotten to Ohio State this
20:33
season. So, you know, there's
20:35
there's something to be said about
20:37
scheduling these preseason matches.
20:38
And if Texas is not rewarded for
20:40
this, look out for, you know,
20:43
upstate university
20:46
every week of the preseason
20:48
or the pre-conference
20:50
part of the schedule.
20:51
The takes have been hot this
20:53
weekend. It's been a great weekend
20:55
to just be online and
20:56
read anything that's been going on.
20:58
Let's say that that chaos doesn't
21:00
play out and the Texas football
21:02
season ends with a bowl game,
21:04
that isn't a a prestigious one,
21:07
one of these championship game ones.
21:09
What do you think what have you seen
21:10
in the last few weeks from the team
21:12
that is a positive to build on going
21:14
into next?
21:15
Well I think that The
21:17
difficult part of that is in modern
21:19
college football, it's so hard to
21:21
figure out like who's going to be
21:22
around. If this if this
21:24
young nucleus
21:26
stays, assuming they
21:28
do, let's just let's just pretend.
21:30
If they stay, the line
21:32
gets, you know,
21:34
at least two games better,
21:36
twelve games better by the end of
21:38
next season.
21:39
Arch Manning is twelve
21:41
games better by the end of next
21:43
season. There's there's a lot
21:45
that they could build upon, mainly
21:47
like missed opportunities,
21:49
regrets, etc., that, you know, are
21:51
just as much a part of building your
21:53
future as you know, successes
21:55
are. So this is
21:57
a a chance for the
21:59
Longhorns to sort of reassess
22:01
and and plan for the future.
22:03
Most people thought it could be a
22:04
rebuilding year.
22:05
Too many people thought Texas
22:07
was going to be the best team ever.
22:10
They're they're somewhere in
22:11
between.
22:12
Yeah, that seems like so long
22:14
ago.
22:15
That is K U T program Director Jimmy
22:17
Mass with the update on the Texas
22:19
football team. Jimmy, thanks for
22:20
your time. Don't forget about that
22:21
volleyball match coming up.
22:23
That's right. I was looking at that
22:24
right now. Number one C Texas
22:26
volleyball team going up against
22:27
Florida AM this Friday
22:30
at seven o'clock.
22:32
And coming up at one
22:34
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, that is
22:36
Austin Signal.
22:37
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22:38
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22:40
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22:42
our technical director, and I'm
22:44
Jerry Quijano, your host.
22:46
We will talk to you tomorrow.