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Temperatures are dropping, but the

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National Weather Service is

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forecasting warmer and drier than

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normal conditions for the Austin

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area this winter.

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But high impact storms are still

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possible as the year wraps up

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and the new one kicks off.

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Find out what Austin City officials

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and Austin Energy are doing to keep

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potential winter storm outages to

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a minimum. And yesterday,

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musician Joe Ely passed at the age

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of 78.

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We speak with Jeff McCord, KUT

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and KUTX's former music

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director about the life of

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Texas-born singer and songwriter.

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The Austin Signal is a production

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of KUT News, hosted by

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Miles Bloxson.

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We'll also hear from another KETXer,

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Marnie Castor.

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She gives us her favorite song

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coming out of 2025.

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That's next right here on the Austin

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Signal.

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It's Tuesday, December 16th.

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I'm Myles Bloxson and this is The

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Austin Signal.

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Thanks so much for joining us.

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As the weather is getting colder,

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high impact storms are possible this

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winter. The question is, what is

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the City of Austin doing to prepare

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us for these possible storms?

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In the studio today, Austin City

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Hall reporter Luz Moreno-Lazano

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is here to tell us all about what

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Austin is doing to keep potential

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winter storm averages to a

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minimum. Luz, great to have you

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today. Hey Myles.

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Okay, so the National Weather

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Service is forecasting warmer and

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drier than normal conditions for the

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some meteorologists are actually

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saying that that doesn't necessarily

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mean we're in the clear, right?

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That's true.

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Yeah, I think we have historically

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have seen these kinds of weather

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patterns in the winter where it is

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warm and dry in December.

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weather storms around January

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and February. And it's at least once

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during that time period.

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And so this is really the kind of

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lead up to how can we be prepared.

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We got a little bit of a taste this

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But yeah, as you're looking at the

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forecast, you'll see it'll warm up

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before the end of the week is done.

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Yeah, February is always a scary

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month for me because I never know

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what's going to happen.

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So what is the city of Austin doing

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to make sure we are prepared if

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a round of severe cold weather

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does actually hit this winter?

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I think one of the things that we

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should really talk about and focus

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on is utilities.

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from residents that gives people

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anxiety is whether or not we're

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going to have power and water when

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the ice hits.

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So the city of Austin has been

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working really hard to do tree

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trimming around

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power lines and things.

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weatherize or basically kind of like

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weatherproof equipment

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as well to make sure that those are

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ready to go.

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something happens and they can

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inevitable power outages will happen

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and Austin apparently isn't the only

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city that deals with this kind of

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thing. And so they have plans in

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place to make sure that that does

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if that does happen that they can

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response as quickly as possible.

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there's plans in places

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for for roads to make sure those are

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clear.

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kind of coming into big.

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into this next few months.

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I know you said it doesn't seem like

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we're the only one, but it does seem

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Isolating for sure

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somebody doesn't have a place that

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they can go to keep warm?

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they will do as this kind of starts

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to ramp up, they will open what they

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call warming centers.

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during the day, libraries,

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recreation centers, other city

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facilities, county facilities spread

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out throughout the city and in the

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county. People can go there during

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the days, stay warm.

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weather and the threshold of

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how cold it gets, they'll open

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overnight shelters for

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people who need that,

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including options for families who

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might want to be in a hotel,

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long as they're on a leash and

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well-behaved, and so there's options

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for that as well.

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What can we do to make sure that

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we are prepared for this type of

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We heard a lot about this yesterday.

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the things that we heard, you know,

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extra blankets, extra batteries,

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flashlights, extra medications, if

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you're a person that needs that.

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you're getting to know your

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neighbors. One of the thing that

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we've heard a little about is like

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make sure that your neighbors are,

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we all are all in communication in

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case someone has perishables,

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non-perishables, there's elderly

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folks next to you.

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be safe at home.

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about right now is because of all of

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the holiday decorations kind of

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happening, making sure to keep

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those kinds of things away from

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flammable areas.

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And Luz, before I let you go,

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you also reported on former Austin

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Mayor Frank Cooksey, who

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died Monday at the age of 92.

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him?

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He was a big civil rights activist

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attorney, is what he did.

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environmental work.

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Comprehensive Watershed Ordinance.

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the Edwards Aquifer underground

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water district.

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works that he did,

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and yeah. And as a civil rights

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attorney, he helped focus on voting

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rights cases.

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Legacy. Definitely.

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We've been speaking with Luce

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Moreno-Lazano, KUT City Hall

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reporter. Luce, thanks so much for

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talking with us today.

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Today Austin and the Texas music

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world are mourning the loss of Joe

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Ely, a storyteller,

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road warrior, and one of the voices

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that helped define the sound of

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Texas and the wider American roots

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movement.

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He died yesterday at the age of 78.

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From the Flatlanders to stages

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around the world, his influence ran

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deep.

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Early morning rain

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With a dollar in mind

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And an aching in my

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Empty pockets for

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sale

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To help us reflect on Joe Ely's

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life, music, and legacy, I'm

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joined by former KUT and KUTX

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music director of more than 20

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years, Jeff McCord.

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Jeff, it's great to have you here

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with us.

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Yeah, it's great to be here.

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Jeff, can you tell us the type of

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impact that Joe had on

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the Texas music scene and

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around the world?

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To me his impact was just,

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uh, immeasurable.

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for me and for so many others,

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I think Joe was the bridge between

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Willie Nelson and

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the big boys, you know, he

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made it all, all the

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stuff that's Texas music, he make it

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all make sense because he

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was so musically

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and eclectic.

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There really has never

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been anyone like him in Texas

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He started out as the younger

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apprentice of sorts

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to Jimmy Gilmore

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and Bitch Hancock and

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Terry Allen and all these

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loveick singer-songwriters.

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And he wasn't really a songwriter

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to begin with.

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this slightly younger guy that was

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tagging along.

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record, Butch, Jimmy and

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Joe, it was

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an eight-track that

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virtually got...

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later got reissued on vinyl.

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own reputations, but the

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Flatlanders originally were Jimmy

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DeGrammer's band,

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and he wrote all the songs, he

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sang them all.

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Joe wasn't a songwriter,

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but in the interim,

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he became one.

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something else, and that was a

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performer and a natural

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bandleader.

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These shows that he put on.

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ear, and you'd think he'd be

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sweat.

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You know, he'd just keep going.

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Please understand me, everything's

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alright, I just need I got, I got a

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lot of sleep last night

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Joe seemed

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unconcerned with success.

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Even said this in interviews, that

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he didn't care if people liked his

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records or not, you know,

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he was making them for him, and,

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uh, you know, when he

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turned in a synthesizer record

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to MCA records, you now,

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they were just like, what is

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this guy doing, but he

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didn t care, he just following

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his muse all the time,

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and that's what made

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him so special to me, I mean,

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and to so many others.

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You realized it was okay

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to like Willie Nelson

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and the Dicks,

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you know, it was okay to, you,

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know, just enjoy everything

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that was coming out of Texas and

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and the fact

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that you know when Bruce Springsteen

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would come to town or the

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Clash and Joey

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Lee would be there on stage with

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them, it was a validation of

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everything great about Texas music,

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you Because you

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they understood and

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it just gave you the sense of pride

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that here is

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this guy that just

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he was one of a kind

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When future generations look back,

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what do you think Joe Ely's lasting

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legacy will be?

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I hope it will become

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more widespread than

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it is now.

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Joe was not that concerned with

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success,

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but rightfully he should have been a

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superstar.

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He certainly was in the state of

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Texas, but I

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would love to see it go beyond that.

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It's a difficult thing to

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translate when someone

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is so musically eclectic.

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There's not an easy way to describe

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their music.

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Joe certainly falls in that

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category.

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He's as great as anyone ever

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was.

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That was former music director of

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KUT and KUTX for over 20

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years, Jeff McCord on the

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life of Joe Ely.

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Thank you so much, Jeff.

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We've got more coming up for you on

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the Austin Signal.

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Stay with us.

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You're listening to Austin Signal.

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My name is Marnie Castor and

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I am the Saturday morning

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host from 7 a.m.

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To 10 a.

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M. On KUTX.

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And one of my favorite songs out

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of Austin this year is

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Back Home Feeling by

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Paige Plaisance.

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Pulling into town

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and the time slows down

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no one's in a hurry

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yeah we don't have to hurry

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it's good to be back

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as a matter of fact

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i forgot all my worries

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Yeah, we don't

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and it's a song I

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think about a lot or I think

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more about the concept of coming

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home or can you come home

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and what it feels like to

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go back to a place that was

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one's home.

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Something about my

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mama's

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She grew up on the Mississippi

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and Tennessee

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and is now

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stationed in

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Austin, Texas.

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And there's just something about it

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that I, it captures my heart

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in terms of just

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a nostalgic feeling, I

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believe, or just that like trying to

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sing about what she

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loves about her hometown.

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I'm always changin',

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yeah we're always changi-

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Something about my

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mama's opium

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The first impression when I heard

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that song was like, oh, that speaks

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to my heart.

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It was just a song that, you know,

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just kind of hit me right in

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the chest.

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My name is Marnie Castor,

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I'm the Saturday Morning Host at

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KUTX, and you can find all

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of our favorite songs from 2025

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at kutx.org.

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This is Austin Signal.

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If you live in Austin long enough,

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you see a lot of Violet Crown themed

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things around town.

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But what is Violet crown?

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Well, someone asked about this for

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ATXplained.

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KUT's Juan Diego Garcia went

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to find out.

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Violet crowns are all over

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Austin.

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The Violet Crown coffee shop.

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There's a church named after the

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Violett Crown. There's the

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shopping center.

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Jenna Guzman noticed them while

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biking around North Austin, but

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if you go pretty much anywhere in

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town, you'll see them.

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There's also a Violet Crown tattoo

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shop, the Violet crown trail,

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the violet crown movie theater.

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Jenna wanted to know.

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What is the significance and the

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origin of the violet crown

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motif throughout Austin?

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It didn't take much to figure out it

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was one of Austin's many nicknames,

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the City of the Violet Crown.

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But unlike other nicknams, there

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didn't seem to be an obvious reason

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for it.

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The capital city just means the

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state capital is here in Austin.

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Live music capital of the world is

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pretty self-explanatory.

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The earliest reference I could find

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to a violet crown was from the

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1890s.

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Writers like O.

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Henry and William Cowper Brand

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described Austin's sky as

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a violet Crown.

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They were talking about the pretty

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purple hue you can sometimes see

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at sunset.

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To find out what causes Austin's

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violet crown, I spoke to KXAN's

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former chief meteorologist, David

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Yeomans.

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He said the unique purple sky we get

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at sunset has to do with particles

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in the atmosphere that act as

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a kind of filter for light waves.

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It's the same reason the sky is

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blue. It has to with the amount of

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atmosphere the light has to pass

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through, and what the light hits

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before it reaches our eyes.

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You think of the earth

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as a round sphere covered by

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this thin layer of atmosphere.

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Sunlight coming in to hit

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the earth's surface and to hit our

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atmosphere is actually white.

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It contains every color on the

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spectrum.

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The light from the sun goes through

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a kind of filtering process as

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it passes through the atmosphere.

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The light particles bounce off all

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kinds of microscopic stuff on its

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journey to our eyeballs.

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So as it does that, the little

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particles that are naturally

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occurring in the atmosphere, gasses,

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smoke, dust, pollution,

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those are scattering most readily

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blue light, which is why when the

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sun is right overhead, the

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sky is blue.

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As the sun dips low on the horizon

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at sunset, the light now has to

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pass through much more atmosphere to

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get to our eyes.

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That bends the light further, making

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it interact differently with the

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particles in the atmosphere.

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When it does so, it not only

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scatters the blue light, but it

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scatters some of the longer

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wavelengths of light, the reds,

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oranges, yellows that we

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think of as a beautiful sunset.

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So far, none of this is unique

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to Austin.

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Anywhere you are in the world, the

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color of the sky at sunset has to

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do with the amount of atmosphere it

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has to pass through and the stuff in

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the atmosphere.

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But Austin was really into

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this sunset.

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In the 1890s, there were lots

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of references to the Violet Crown,

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but that seems to have faded.

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Susan Bernison has lived in the

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Crestview neighborhood in Austin

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since 1985.

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She started collecting stories from

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the in the early 2000s.

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Later sharing what she collected on

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her website, Voices of

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the Violet Crown.

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I actually made it all the way back

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to 1888,

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there's a reference in the

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Statesman.

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It was around this time that writers

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in Austin started throwing the

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Violet Crown around in their stories

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set in the city.

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Most folks credit O.

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Henry for christening Austin as the

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City of the Violett Crown in his

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work Tick-Tock the French Detective

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in 1894.

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The occasion is the entree

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into society of one of

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the fairest buds in the city of

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the violet crown.

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He might have taken inspiration from

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another Austin-based writer at the

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time.

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William Cowper Brann wrote about the

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Violet Crown in 1891.

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An Edison dollar with its lion

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legend more beautiful in his eyes

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than even Austin's Violet crown.

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Starting in 1920, the first ever

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Violet-Crown festival added another

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layer to the nickname's lore.

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There was a group called the Order

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of the Violet Crown that was kind of

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a civic group, and they started this

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big thing with, they had a parade,

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they had coronation of queen.

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I'm not exactly sure what it grew

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out of, but it was really popular

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in the 20s.

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A few years later, in 1925,

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there was a project in Austin to

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build the ideal home for the time.

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The house was called...you

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guessed it...the Violet Crown

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Home.

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25 was the first time I saw that

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kind of in a real estate mode,

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you know, where you were trying to

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00:19:09,910 --> 00:19:11,529
promote houses that had a view of

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the Violet Crown Hills.

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This would continue in real estate

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marketing all throughout the early

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20th century, but few had

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the impact Dr. Joe Koenig

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and Clarence McCullough had when

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they started selling land in what

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used to be North Austin in the 40s.

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They called their subdivision Violet

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Crown Heights.

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Right alongside the subdivision,

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the pair built a shopping center in

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1951.

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They called it the Violet Crown

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Shopping Center, which had a handful

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of Violet crown-themed businesses.

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You might even recognize it as the

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Emporium from Dazed and Confused.

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Hey man, you sure I'm okay in here?

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00:19:47,420 --> 00:19:48,979
Oh yeah, man, you'll be okay.

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Look, if anyone starts messing with

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you, just play it cool.

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But despite its prevalence here,

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Austin wasn't the first violet crown

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city in the world.

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Athens, Greece beat us to the

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nickname by a couple thousand years.

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The earliest reference to their

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00:20:04,770 --> 00:20:06,929
violet crown dates back to 400

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BC.

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And there's something else we have

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in common with Athens that might

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explain the coincidence.

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Juniper trees.

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Both cities have these trees that

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00:20:15,870 --> 00:20:17,209
produce everyone's favorite

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light-scattering particle, what

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00:20:19,030 --> 00:20:20,949
we call cedar pollen.

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00:20:20,950 --> 00:20:22,199
Here's David Yeomans again.

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Most of the stuff in the atmosphere

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that's naturally occurring or from

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pollution is like two and a half

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microns, maybe up to ten

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microns in size.

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A micron is a millionth of

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a meter.

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Now cedar pollen is

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00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:36,219
many times bigger than that.

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It's 30 or 40 microns instead

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of five or 10.

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In other words, cedar pollen

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particles are much bigger than

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most of what's in the atmosphere,

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so it scatters different wavelengths

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of light.

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David believes this might explain

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why Austin and Athens became

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the only two violet-crowned cities

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in the world.

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They too have this enemy

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allergen floating around,

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and that could explain why we both

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have the similar atmospheric effect,

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the violet crown.

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David also has a theory about why

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the name went out of style.

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The Violet Crowns nickname's

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popularity took off in the 1880s,

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around the time early environmental

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movements were rising in response to

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the Industrial Revolution.

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The industrial revolution changed

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00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,059
our atmosphere drastically when you

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00:21:19,060 --> 00:21:20,899
look from now back

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00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:21,769
until that point.

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Pollution isn't the only thing that

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00:21:23,650 --> 00:21:25,569
affects the colors of the sky.

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Natural stuff like wildfires and our

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00:21:27,510 --> 00:21:29,349
yearly encounter with Saharan dust

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00:21:29,350 --> 00:21:31,609
can also color the sunset.

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But there's no doubt we've had an

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00:21:33,350 --> 00:21:35,209
impact on the colors we see

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00:21:35,210 --> 00:21:36,099
at sunset.

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Maybe those contributions are

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00:21:37,580 --> 00:21:39,259
starting to overpower the Violet

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Crown effect.

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Maybe it was even more prominent.

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Maybe that was the prominent feature

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00:21:43,660 --> 00:21:44,989
in our sky.

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And how could it not be the biggest

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deal in town?

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00:21:47,870 --> 00:21:50,029
In the 1880s, Austin had a

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university, the state capitol,

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and that's about it.

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Our city has since grown and adopted

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a few other nicknames along the way.

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But before the tech industry turned

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us into Silicon Hills,

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before the Austin Chamber of

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Commerce labeled us the live music

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capital of the world, and before we

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were reminded to keep Austin weird

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all the time, We had our

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00:22:12,610 --> 00:22:14,849
awesome Violet Crown Sunset.

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I'm Juan Garcia, in the City

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00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:22,320
of the Violet Crown.

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Rayna Sevilla is our technical

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director.

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Kristin Cabrera is our managing

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producer. Thanks for doing all that

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you do.

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I'm Miles Bloxton and for my buddy,

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00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:38,100
Jerry Quijano.

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Austin Signal is back tomorrow.

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We'll talk to you then.