February 7, 2025 • 29 mins
TOPICS FOR TODAY INCLUDE:
- Texas Stock Exchange submits registration to SEC - Wall street vs Y’all street!
- Tesla to launch unsupervised, full self-driving in Austin this year
- Austin’s 1st women’s sports bar opening soon!
- Plus! Fun Facts with Fiona!
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Welcome to the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce podcast.
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I'm Tina Cannon, your host and CEO of the Chamber.
On today's pod, we're going to talk local business news in the headlines this week.
Y'all street.
That's right.
Texas Stock Exchange is headed our way.
Tesla about ready to launch an unsupervised self-driving car in Austin this year.
Austin's first women's sports bar is about to open.
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We'll be back.
Hello and howdy to the podcast world Colton, Amy and Fiona.
Hello, hello, hello.
That theme song every time my wife makes me listen to my own voice.
(00:59):
The podcast in the car.
We clap like it's the the friends theme.
Yeah.
Well, we fake clap in the office while it's going as well.
Arnie Arnie claps when I listen to it at home too.
I struggle to listen to a podcast that I've been on.
Like, I just don't want to listen to it again because I was there once.
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It was for the first time.
I mean, it's great.
I'm sure it's great.
Here's the tip for analytics purposes.
It really helps me if you listen to it on volume one, even if you're not paying attention.
Thanks so much.
Speed 1.3.
Oh, always.
I can't.
At least a 1.2.
I talk with pauses and something I need to work on.
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But I never noticed.
Fast forward.
1.5.
2.5.
The time Amy never writing in her truck on the way back from somewhere and she put
the podcast on.
I didn't realize that she listened to it on this fast speed.
I'm like, why the hell do I sound like Mickey Mouse?
You don't, though.
You have the same tone.
It's just, yes.
It's just like, welcome to the Ossetel GBC Chamber of Commerce.
I am Tina Kenner, your host at the Ossetel Chamber.
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I'm just trying to get through it.
I want to listen to it, but good grief.
Yes, like Fiona said, I've been there once.
It's fun.
Once is done.
It's done.
You know, I live in the now.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
Well, we had our, we're recording today on a Wednesday.
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We just had our chamber luncheon.
If you missed our chamber luncheon, you suck.
I mean, it was.
I missed it.
You just suck.
Good grief.
Yeah.
So stay tuned at the end of the show for a full list of all of our chamber events.
Colton will run you through that.
So you don't have a homo-fomo and miss out again.
It's a good lunch and well attended, good barbecue and vegan options.
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Thank you.
County line.
Yes.
Good times.
Good times.
Yeah.
They're so sweet to us.
Shout out to Skeeter.
I feel like I'm going to the bathroom at County line.
It scares me every time.
But it's like what?
Country pronunciation.
So it's like, you'll hear on the speaker, like a little lady and she's like, our, and
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then it's like a man.
He's like, well, our, our, by God.
Yes.
I forgot about this.
I think I've only been in the restroom at the other location.
And so he actually, I don't know if he still does, but he used to sell back in the day
cassettes.
I'm sure nowadays it's.
Of that recording of the recording.
Cause so many of his customers would say, where, where can I get that at my funeral?
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I guess so.
Like, where do you play that?
That is an elevator bizarre to the headliners.
It is.
They need to go on.
It is unnerving.
When you first walk in, you're like, is somebody arguing?
Yeah.
What's the word they're talking?
Wow.
There's a man and a woman in this stall next door.
Super inclusive restrooms at the county line.
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Thank you very much.
They're being amazing.
We missed the, there was a protest downtown.
We missed that today.
So we'll have to check the news and see what happened on that.
Boys, make your voices heard.
Super, super important.
Let's take a look at some headlines.
So the Texas stock exchange has submitted official paperwork to the securities and exchange
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commission, making a step toward Yall Street, a reality, Texas based a TXSE group announced
late January that it has filed registration paperwork with the SEC.
The move begins with a long and arduous process.
So it's not going to happen overnight, but if successful, it could really shake up the
New York dominated industry, trading industry.
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While the filings are not public yet, they said though in an announcement that there
are a list of corporate partners that are already interested in the products that they
are going to offer, including Michael Dell and his group.
So they are looking to be an alternative to the NYSE and NASDAQ, especially for companies
that are in Texas and across the southeastern US.
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So we'll see what happens if Yall Street becomes a real thing.
Are they going to actually call it Yall Street?
I hope so.
I really want that.
Honestly, no, I think it'd be amazing.
Like Yall is the best word ever.
Yall and Fixing2.
I mean, they're the reasons I moved to Texas.
Fixing2 is a good one.
Some of the fellas on the floor would be really excited about this with their 27 monitor setup
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that they currently have.
Yeah, we've got some day traders that office near us and they look really stressed out
most of the time.
Do they?
That one guy does down the hall.
They always wear sweats.
Because nobody sees them.
They're looking at 38 monitors.
Yeah, this is true.
They are sweating in their sweats.
But I mean, you've seen obviously the crypto market be a thing, be a new thing.
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And that's kind of a weird thing compared to the other markets on many levels.
But one is it doesn't turn off.
Right.
It just keeps going.
It just keeps, people keep trading.
And there's not like with the NY and the NASDAQ, right?
There's a, there's a dead time, right?
The markets close at four, you're done.
And then you go and do all your smokey room deals and then come back the next day and
do it again.
So I'd be curious to see if this Yall Street becomes a real thing.
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This new story reminded me of Galveston because here we go.
Fiona's going down to Robert Hall.
Ready?
I'm like, you're talking about my stomping grounds.
What's she going to say?
This is serious, Yall.
So, you know, so I got here 24 years ago and one of the first places I visited was Galveston
and learned about the 1900 hurricane.
Oh, yes.
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Now, if that hurricane had not happened, Galveston was set to be the New York of the South.
I told you this.
Do you remember I told you this?
You're like, what?
I probably had some drinks between then and now.
I told you this.
Yeah.
We were like the Vegas of, we were the, all the things.
We were the New York, the Vegas, the one stop shop.
And now it's kind of the Coney Island.
It isn't.
Hey, hang on.
That's Benny Hill.
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It's totally different culture.
And I think Tillman Fertitta is all set for all of that to be switched on.
Just making up words.
Tillman Fertitta is, he's like the Trump of the Golden Nugget.
Okay.
Yeah.
And he has his little fingers all over the state of Texas for gambling and all that to
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be switched on.
The Texas, what's the TSE?
TXSE.
TXSE.
Yeah, they gotta have to call it Yall Street.
I can't say.
I think just last year's called it Yall Street.
Yeah.
Let's start the trend now.
And also for the record, everyone listening, I did read this story.
The stocks are above my head.
But you are fully invested in, all should be in there.
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401K.
401Ks.
Yeah.
Or as my friend calls it, her 401k.
I love that.
I am guessing a friend.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure we can guess that friend.
And we want to acknowledge and say thanks to Dell being our lead corporate sponsor.
And if any of the other corporate sponsors are going to be a part of Yall Street, then
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you should be chambermed.
This is wild though.
I know it's not out of nowhere, but it does kind of feel a little bit like, that's a big
change.
And what happens to like a Dell that's already listed with NASDAQ?
Do they delist from NASDAQ and move into Texas?
Or do they list in two places?
Yeah, is there a hurting period for everyone?
It's going to be a different style of stock.
There's just a lot of unknown questions about how Yall Street will work with brands that
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are already a part of Wall Street.
Yeah, we should invite someone to come educate us on that.
I started following a little bit of the whole, there's like apps and stuff that track your
senators and representatives and they're buying and trading habits overnight.
And that all of a sudden to me is fascinating.
Oh, the insider information that happens in those weeks.
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Trading that's 100% illegal?
Yeah.
There's a reason that pretty much every elected official at the national level especially,
almost everyone, or millionaires.
Are wearing $1,200 Italian leather shoes?
Yes.
Because they're all trading stocks, which should be, it is technically not allowed,
but yet they all,
I'm telling you.
Have you seen who a president is?
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Oh, this is well before that though.
And it's on both sides of the aisle.
It is.
It is on both sides of the aisle.
And they're trading the same.
Why can't we agree on stuff?
Like, anyway, don't get me started.
They hear about a pipeline going in, then all of a sudden they go to buy property.
Martha.
Martha.
Martha Stewart.
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Like baby reindeer?
Oh.
I watched that documentary.
Me too.
I actually really enjoyed it.
It's like, where is it going?
She was really raw and like very open and transparent about just her life story and how she really
got screwed over by James Comey.
Yeah.
She was very open to the time and really wanted her to be the poster child for kind of his
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initiatives around insider trading, which she just was just traded a stock.
I mean, it wasn't even like it was a lot of money.
I mean, it was,
Wild.
It was wild.
It ruined her business.
Absolutely.
It took her down from being a billionaire within her business outside of the stock she
traded, which had nothing to do with her business.
She's recovered now, right?
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Yeah, I think she's okay.
She's probably in the garden as we speak.
Besties with snoop.
I know I love who she chooses to be in her circle.
Well, they've done time together, so they can do that.
Not together, but that would be something.
They have great portraits in many ball frames.
I think it was like 2000, when was this?
Like 2001, 2002 when she got popped for...
(10:22):
I don't know dates, but nature than that.
And like, if I could take it back,
I would by 100% went as Martha Stewart for Halloween
and like my orange jumpsuit with her inmate number.
Spray painted on the back and a blonde wig.
I did the same thing for Lindsay Lohan.
But I had a blonde wig.
This is why we're friends.
This is why we're friends.
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Oh my God.
I did wear my giant pleaser heels.
Oh, wowzers.
Photos coming soon to our website.
I'll try to do something else.
Oh my gosh.
Well, the folks down at Tesla down the road here in Austin
are planning on launching an unsupervised full self-driving
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car in Austin this year.
Can read more about it at the ABJ.
But they are...
He confirmed on an earnings call just last week
that quote, he feels confident that we'll be able to bring
an initial launch of an unsupervisor.
Unsupervised, no one in the car full self-driving
to Austin in June.
According to Elon, the city of Austin confirmed to KXN News
(11:25):
that the Austin based electric vehicle company
has been in contact with city officials
on the planned service.
They're looking at...
The problem is like it's unregulated.
So the cities are no longer allowed to regulate
these types of vehicles and these types of things
on the roads.
That was part of last session.
They took some of that local control away.
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And this was one of the impacts of that.
So unfortunately, they can just do it.
The city officials can't control what's going on.
So that's why you see these, the Waymo's and the...
Who was the other guys that were here?
Cruise.
Cruise.
Yeah.
They can just come in.
Cruise had problems, so golly.
We've talked about that a couple of times.
Yeah.
But there's a couple of other manufacturers
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that are in the testing phase as well that are operating
already here in the Austin area.
Volkswagen is doing a model.
AV Ride, a group that Hyundai is running.
And then of course Waymo and Zooks.
They are all in the testing phase here around town.
So we're a Petri dish, but self-driving cars.
We are.
On the way to work this morning,
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I got stuck in a traffic jam.
Because one of those Waymo's couldn't understand,
I guess, the flashy red light.
Because the traffic lights were down.
And so it was like turned into a four-way stop,
at Lamar and whatever it was.
Oh, no.
And there was this Waymo who just sat there.
And all the cars were just there to go around it.
I was like, oh, my God.
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Because it's just getting, stop, go, stop, go, stop, go.
And then as I drove past, I looked to see if there was
someone in there.
And there was this poor person in the passenger seat.
Like in the front passenger seat, and I couldn't imagine they
look kind of like deer in headlights.
And maybe they were there just to sit in the car
to supervise it.
They didn't.
It was really weird.
I was trying to make up what the hell happened there.
I've never been inside of one.
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But I am curious.
Like if you're inside of the car, riding, like, let's say,
I mean, because you can ride share with them, right?
Gary did.
Still?
Yeah, it's not open to the public yet.
They've been to select group.
And signed up for it.
Yeah.
Got it.
Yeah, but if you're in this car, going downtown
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or wherever you're going, and you feel unsafe.
What do you do?
What do you do?
Because if you're buckled up and scream for your life.
Yeah, if your Uber driver looks away for a second
and something's happening, you could be like, hey.
You can scream.
And somebody's there.
I would like to ride in one of the, I think it's the,
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well, maybe it's not listed here.
I thought it was Zooks that had the Jaguar SUVs.
Well, no Waymo is doing the Jaguar cars.
Maybe it's Waymo.
But I feel like it's kind of like driving with somebody
that, like, one of your friends, it's a bad driver,
and you're just kind of screaming the whole time.
I don't know.
It would feel weird to look over and not have a driver.
Yeah.
We were, when we were in Orlando on an intercity trip,
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we went in and tested the buses.
And they look like an elevator.
Like there's not even a steering wheel at all.
You just get in it and it's just open seating.
That's like the Volkswagen van.
Yeah.
And it's, there's nobody in it, but they have cameras inside
that are filming inside the vehicle, as well as, of course,
all around it.
I don't know.
I hate it.
I hate it because the only thing I can think of,
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because, you know, artificial intelligence, right?
And I will still ask Chad GPT to create an image for me.
And if that thing isn't all kinds of stuff,
that I don't want to get in a car without a driver.
Like, we're not there yet.
Yeah, we're not there yet.
And I don't put a lot of trust into, you know, the Must-Ox.
(14:58):
Yeah, that.
Well, we see how well those public storage unit trucks
are doing on the road.
The stainless steel.
This one in our parking garage, isn't that?
The trash can on wheels.
Every time we pass it.
It's lucky that it's parked inside because they're all
rusting and falling apart.
Oh, yeah, they're falling apart.
Like, you can just rip.
Was it you, or is that you just rip the bumper off?
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Oh, my gosh.
You can just rip it apart with your hands.
With no effort.
It just comes right off.
You know how they were designed?
That apparently Elon asked his son
to draw a picture of what a car should look like.
And his son drew the picture, and he took it to his engineer
people and said.
One of his 332 sons.
Make this.
Because it does look like a child's drawing.
I don't know how many kids the guy has.
Oh, how many children is he up to?
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He's like Nick Cannon.
Yeah, he was because he's a little bit.
All I know is that he does have a trans child.
Yes.
Yes.
Amazing.
Yes.
Although he doesn't acknowledge her.
Yeah, whether he acknowledges that or not,
he does have a trans child.
Well, he doesn't because he's in there racing her as we speak
on all the platforms that he's on.
But we're not going to go down that.
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No, not today.
That's for another day.
For another day.
But look for that to happen in June.
Great.
For the Muskox.
Is this sad expansion, though, at the plant?
Is that what that expansion was for?
I suppose.
He's kind of coy about that because he's
got the space out in Bastrop too where he's doing this.
Is it abusing the policies?
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We're not going to go down that either.
No, no, no.
We're going to.
E.T.J. But that's fine.
It's fine.
On a lighter note, Austin's first women's themed sports
bar is opening soon.
The bar is going to be here in Central Austin.
Formerly the ATX Women's Sports Pub, 72,
co-founded by our friends Deborah and Marlene.
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They are, according to their press release,
going to feature big screens showcasing women's sports
year-round and extensive menu and welcoming environment
for all fans, including the boys, and the LGBT plus community
and allies.
Opening hopefully sometime this spring.
You can find out more information about that at 1972pub.com.
But excited for our friends.
I'm so perfectly timed for today's International Women's
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and Women's Sports Day.
Is it?
Well done.
I think it is today, actually.
I've swept the channels the other day at home,
and there's an entire channel dedicated to women's sports.
I love that.
Because it used to drive me crazy.
I'd purposely sit down to watch a women's something sport,
and you couldn't find anything.
Or maybe it was like a big volleyball match
that I was trying to find.
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It's not aired on television.
But yet, it'd be like professional cornhole.
With women?
With men.
And then like, why do professional cornhole players
get TV time?
But I can't watch a women's volleyball match.
What is that stupid college sport
that the kids would play out in the quad
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with a tiny baby trampoline?
It slapped the ball on the trampoline.
Quad ball?
Sure, maybe.
And these kids.
I see them do that at the park.
Yeah.
And they're in like Lycra.
Like, calm down.
Wait, isn't quad ball like the rebranded?
I don't know.
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The word I just said, quidditch.
Quidditch?
I think they renamed it.
Oh, because of our friend JK.
Yeah.
It looks like it's just like Patty cake with the ball.
You know what I'm talking about, right?
You just kind of slapping the ball into the little trampoline
and it bounces another direction.
Some of these sports, I'm like, that's not a sport.
Also, you're wearing too much polyester.
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And I can't.
Is this an American thing?
That's what I was thinking.
Next time you pass Zoker, you'll see some folks out there.
I mean, you've seen American football
and how well that's turned out for us.
Oh, really?
So it's like, we got Super Bowl coming up.
Yeah, we did.
Excited for Super Bowl.
Excited for my chiefs.
OK.
I'm excited to say that.
Who's performing a half time?
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Who is performing a half time?
I don't know.
Oh, me.
I'm going to be eating Philly cheesesteaks.
Go Eagles.
Yeah.
I'm going to be sipping mine with my English friends.
That would be fun.
I mean, I do love the halftime show,
but like bring back a little bit of banter.
Let's have like a Philly cheesesteak eating contest
or something.
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I do kind of miss the John Madden
commentary.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think it was just and then the sound effects.
Oh, I would come with it.
I just hope it's not.
I don't know who the announcers are.
I hope it's not Akeman or not Akeman,
but I actually don't really care for him.
It will be Akeman and probably God, what's his name?
Was I like a Romo?
What is his name?
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I'll watch the commercials on YouTube the next day.
That's really cool.
He like ruins baseball.
I think that's why they've moved him over to football.
OK.
What is his name?
You can't think.
And they now favor each other like they're
starting to look alike.
Oh, I do know who you're talking about.
And I can't think of his name either.
But yeah, they look alike nowadays.
But with the teeth.
But yeah, the commercials, I'm ready for the commercials too.
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Yes.
Very creative.
They spent a lot of money.
I did love.
Hopefully Dove extends their song because that
is a fun commercial.
I don't remember.
Oh, just look at it.
What you do.
The my neck, my back.
Oh, no.
We written for Dove.
Oh, wow.
How that slipped by me.
Definitely catches the attention.
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It does.
I was excited for the Grammys did a great job
on their commercials of giving free airtime to local businesses
that were impacted by the LA fires.
That was really great to see those commercials.
That was amazing.
And like the intentionality behind like the floral
arrangements, which was one of the first commercials I played.
But it was like a small business owner.
And then she did all the florals and then also had a commercial.
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And lots of really great messaging.
Throughout the whole program.
Yeah, it was good.
It was good.
It was fun to watch.
I enjoyed it.
I had missed the in memoriam section, which
is normally where I shine.
Oh my hell.
I don't know.
Half the people that are nominated, but like I
know all the people that just died.
I hate this.
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Can't be out of here.
Where I shine.
All right, for our new section, a fun
of facts with a Fiona.
OK, so I took the theme going from the Yal
Street that made me think of Galveston, which I have this
obsession about.
And then knowing it is the Super Bowl this Sunday.
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So the fun fact is tied to all of that.
I will ask the question first to see if you can guess.
Who was the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL?
And Galveston is your hint.
Of course, Colton can't play in this game.
That's really not fair.
I might just give it away.
I'll guess myself.
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But I'm pretty sure that is not correct.
It is Michael Sam.
And Michael Sam grew up in Galveston, Texas.
And he was the first openly gay football player
to draft the NFL.
But he didn't actually get to play in a what do you call it
when you're active, like in a natural, you know, roster?
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Game thing.
Yeah.
But his announcement was historic.
Me too, Fiona.
But he was not picked until the seventh round
by the St. Louis Rams.
So he basically came out and then didn't get
to do much with his career.
But he's amazing.
And he's really sweet and kind and nice.
And he gives good speeches.
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Being drafted seventh is pretty good.
Seventh round is pretty good.
I mean, Brady was drafted 14th round.
No, he was in the team's 12 or 14.
Are you sure?
Deborah Hallow, if you're listening to our broadcast,
be sure to call and correct the record.
Please fact check that.
Oh, yeah.
We can get all this.
And now we have a source.
Yeah, we do.
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I'm excited for the pub to open.
It's going to be somewhere on Guadalupe.
It's taking over an old space that was already there.
So it's hopefully it's kind of move in ready
with a little bit of decor and updates and changes.
And then going through the city processes of permitting.
But after the permitting comes the rainbow ribbon cutting.
Yeah.
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And yeah.
Well, good fun fact.
Colton, what do you have on the event side for us?
We have an event on February 19th in partnership with the NGLCC.
This will be a virtual event celebrating
and honoring Black History Month.
You can also register for free to attend our monthly chamber
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happy hour on February 20th at El Raval.
And on February 22nd, we will be returning to Lockhart, Texas
as part of our small town big pride program.
Yeah.
You can register to attend that event as well.
It costs $10 to ride the bus with us from downtown Austin
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to Lockhart.
There will be beverages on the bus.
It is a fun bus ride, I promise you.
Yes.
Really cute on the Lockhart bus.
Yes.
So cute.
If you do not want to ride the bus with us,
but you still want to attend, you can RSVP for free
and meet us out in Lockhart.
Yeah.
I've got several friends who have said they're doing that.
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Well, they're going to drive out themselves,
but they're going.
Nice.
Yeah.
I'm excited for it.
I accidentally skipped one.
We also have a health and wellness committee
event on February 12th at 4 PM.
It's a quick 30-minute call, and we
have some exciting events coming up,
including free CPR classes for members and more.
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And as always, you can find out more about all of these events
at AustinLGBTChamber.com.
Amazing.
Loverly.
Oh, South by is coming up too.
More on that later.
Now, we're not going to do South by this year.
We're just going to skip it.
What?
OK.
Oh, my.
OK.
I think this is going to be a huge blowout here for South
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by.
I think South by is going to bring it loud and strong this year.
It's going to be the last year that we have the convention
center for it'll be shut down for four years after that.
So I think, yeah, I think people need to be rebuilt.
Rebuilt.
OK.
Sorry, I missed that memo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's being rebuilt.
So this will be the last one that they'll
be able to host it in the convention center.
But it's still all around town.
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But I think this is going to be a big one this year.
A four year project.
That's incredible.
That is insane.
I'm excited for South by.
My filmmaker friends, they have their next documentary
primaring itself by.
We made Trans Military together.
That's amazing.
That's great.
Yeah, so I'm excited about that.
Yeah, it's such a good event.
It's such an economic boom to our city.
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300 plus million dollars of economic impact
for South by Southwest.
They're a good partner of our city.
And the two names and two brands,
the brands have become synonymous.
You can't say South by Southwest in any country
in the world and not have people associate it with Austin.
So it's good stuff.
And same thing for Austin.
That deal.
Yeah.
And we'll have our activation March 8.
But more details to come on that.
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Yes.
Yes.
So our chamber is a membership organization.
We also want to highlight members that have joined.
What you got for us, Amy?
We have Loop UX.
They are a global user experience research organization.
That's a lot of words.
Yeah.
Lena and Lena.
Yes.
And they are so smart.
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Yeah.
Spelled differently, though.
Yes.
Same country.
Same country.
We also have, I'm going to mess this up, Luso Carazaria.
I probably messed that up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good chance.
Anyway, lovely, lovely establishment.
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David over there at Luso.
It's a paint and body shop.
And had some friends in the Q plus community say, hey, homie.
It's going to be a wild ride.
We need you to tell the city that you have a safe space here.
Like, it's always a great experience for his customers.
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And it was a lovely conversation when he joined.
That's amazing.
I'm really excited to have him at the chamber.
In car places, it really scared me.
So I love that.
Now we have a safe place to go.
Yeah.
Paint and it's, well, OK.
So it's paint and body.
Yes.
He does specialize in exotics.
So like, Lambo's.
Oh, good.
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Now I have somewhere to take my Lambo.
He does it all.
He does it all.
My poor shark.
It's not a mechanic shop.
Now, if you have mechanic issues caused by an accident,
yes, they will.
It's collision repair.
But it is mostly paint and body.
So you know where my tundra is going.
Wouldn't right next to Lambo's.
That's right.
Where it should be.
Yeah.
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2002.
That's good.
All my heart.
That's good.
Yeah.
So Loop UX and Luso Carazeria.
I'm so sorry, David.
But you can find them in our chamber memory, member directory.
If you just hit the chamber directory and look for auto,
you'll they'll pop up on the directory listing.
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There you go.
And then you can contact us and tell us how to.
So we were talking about certifications a little bit
today at the luncheon just briefly.
The JP Morgan Chase Scholarship is still
active and open on the NGLCC website.
So if you are considering certification,
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go apply for a scholarship.
JP Morgan Chase wants to pay for it.
Nice.
Yeah.
So you get your certification.
And if you're not already a member of the chamber,
you also get membership with us for a year.
What a deal.
It is a deal.
I do like that.
Yeah.
Well, as always, we thank you so much
for joining us on our chamber podcast.
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If you want to become a guest or a sponsor,
you can email us at info at austinlgbtchamber.com.
You listen to our show every Friday wherever you get your
podcast.
Be sure to follow us.
Thanks.
And we will see you next time.
Welcome to the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce podcast.
(00:12):
I'm Tina Cannon, your host and CEO of the Chamber.
On today's pod, we're going to talk local business news in the headlines this week.
Y'all street.
That's right.
Texas Stock Exchange is headed our way.
Tesla about ready to launch an unsupervised self-driving car in Austin this year.
Austin's first women's sports bar is about to open.
(00:33):
We'll be back.
Hello and howdy to the podcast world Colton, Amy and Fiona.
Hello, hello, hello.
That theme song every time my wife makes me listen to my own voice.
(00:59):
The podcast in the car.
We clap like it's the the friends theme.
Yeah.
Well, we fake clap in the office while it's going as well.
Arnie Arnie claps when I listen to it at home too.
I struggle to listen to a podcast that I've been on.
Like, I just don't want to listen to it again because I was there once.
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It was for the first time.
I mean, it's great.
I'm sure it's great.
Here's the tip for analytics purposes.
It really helps me if you listen to it on volume one, even if you're not paying attention.
Thanks so much.
Speed 1.3.
Oh, always.
I can't.
At least a 1.2.
I talk with pauses and something I need to work on.
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But I never noticed.
Fast forward.
1.5.
2.5.
The time Amy never writing in her truck on the way back from somewhere and she put
the podcast on.
I didn't realize that she listened to it on this fast speed.
I'm like, why the hell do I sound like Mickey Mouse?
You don't, though.
You have the same tone.
It's just, yes.
It's just like, welcome to the Ossetel GBC Chamber of Commerce.
I am Tina Kenner, your host at the Ossetel Chamber.
(02:02):
I'm just trying to get through it.
I want to listen to it, but good grief.
Yes, like Fiona said, I've been there once.
It's fun.
Once is done.
It's done.
You know, I live in the now.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
Well, we had our, we're recording today on a Wednesday.
(02:24):
We just had our chamber luncheon.
If you missed our chamber luncheon, you suck.
I mean, it was.
I missed it.
You just suck.
Good grief.
Yeah.
So stay tuned at the end of the show for a full list of all of our chamber events.
Colton will run you through that.
So you don't have a homo-fomo and miss out again.
It's a good lunch and well attended, good barbecue and vegan options.
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Thank you.
County line.
Yes.
Good times.
Good times.
Yeah.
They're so sweet to us.
Shout out to Skeeter.
I feel like I'm going to the bathroom at County line.
It scares me every time.
But it's like what?
Country pronunciation.
So it's like, you'll hear on the speaker, like a little lady and she's like, our, and
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then it's like a man.
He's like, well, our, our, by God.
Yes.
I forgot about this.
I think I've only been in the restroom at the other location.
And so he actually, I don't know if he still does, but he used to sell back in the day
cassettes.
I'm sure nowadays it's.
Of that recording of the recording.
Cause so many of his customers would say, where, where can I get that at my funeral?
(03:29):
I guess so.
Like, where do you play that?
That is an elevator bizarre to the headliners.
It is.
They need to go on.
It is unnerving.
When you first walk in, you're like, is somebody arguing?
Yeah.
What's the word they're talking?
Wow.
There's a man and a woman in this stall next door.
Super inclusive restrooms at the county line.
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Thank you very much.
They're being amazing.
We missed the, there was a protest downtown.
We missed that today.
So we'll have to check the news and see what happened on that.
Boys, make your voices heard.
Super, super important.
Let's take a look at some headlines.
So the Texas stock exchange has submitted official paperwork to the securities and exchange
(04:12):
commission, making a step toward Yall Street, a reality, Texas based a TXSE group announced
late January that it has filed registration paperwork with the SEC.
The move begins with a long and arduous process.
So it's not going to happen overnight, but if successful, it could really shake up the
New York dominated industry, trading industry.
(04:35):
While the filings are not public yet, they said though in an announcement that there
are a list of corporate partners that are already interested in the products that they
are going to offer, including Michael Dell and his group.
So they are looking to be an alternative to the NYSE and NASDAQ, especially for companies
that are in Texas and across the southeastern US.
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So we'll see what happens if Yall Street becomes a real thing.
Are they going to actually call it Yall Street?
I hope so.
I really want that.
Honestly, no, I think it'd be amazing.
Like Yall is the best word ever.
Yall and Fixing2.
I mean, they're the reasons I moved to Texas.
Fixing2 is a good one.
Some of the fellas on the floor would be really excited about this with their 27 monitor setup
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that they currently have.
Yeah, we've got some day traders that office near us and they look really stressed out
most of the time.
Do they?
That one guy does down the hall.
They always wear sweats.
Because nobody sees them.
They're looking at 38 monitors.
Yeah, this is true.
They are sweating in their sweats.
But I mean, you've seen obviously the crypto market be a thing, be a new thing.
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And that's kind of a weird thing compared to the other markets on many levels.
But one is it doesn't turn off.
Right.
It just keeps going.
It just keeps, people keep trading.
And there's not like with the NY and the NASDAQ, right?
There's a, there's a dead time, right?
The markets close at four, you're done.
And then you go and do all your smokey room deals and then come back the next day and
do it again.
So I'd be curious to see if this Yall Street becomes a real thing.
(06:05):
This new story reminded me of Galveston because here we go.
Fiona's going down to Robert Hall.
Ready?
I'm like, you're talking about my stomping grounds.
What's she going to say?
This is serious, Yall.
So, you know, so I got here 24 years ago and one of the first places I visited was Galveston
and learned about the 1900 hurricane.
Oh, yes.
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Now, if that hurricane had not happened, Galveston was set to be the New York of the South.
I told you this.
Do you remember I told you this?
You're like, what?
I probably had some drinks between then and now.
I told you this.
Yeah.
We were like the Vegas of, we were the, all the things.
We were the New York, the Vegas, the one stop shop.
And now it's kind of the Coney Island.
It isn't.
Hey, hang on.
That's Benny Hill.
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It's totally different culture.
And I think Tillman Fertitta is all set for all of that to be switched on.
Just making up words.
Tillman Fertitta is, he's like the Trump of the Golden Nugget.
Okay.
Yeah.
And he has his little fingers all over the state of Texas for gambling and all that to
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be switched on.
The Texas, what's the TSE?
TXSE.
TXSE.
Yeah, they gotta have to call it Yall Street.
I can't say.
I think just last year's called it Yall Street.
Yeah.
Let's start the trend now.
And also for the record, everyone listening, I did read this story.
The stocks are above my head.
But you are fully invested in, all should be in there.
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401K.
401Ks.
Yeah.
Or as my friend calls it, her 401k.
I love that.
I am guessing a friend.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure we can guess that friend.
And we want to acknowledge and say thanks to Dell being our lead corporate sponsor.
And if any of the other corporate sponsors are going to be a part of Yall Street, then
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you should be chambermed.
This is wild though.
I know it's not out of nowhere, but it does kind of feel a little bit like, that's a big
change.
And what happens to like a Dell that's already listed with NASDAQ?
Do they delist from NASDAQ and move into Texas?
Or do they list in two places?
Yeah, is there a hurting period for everyone?
It's going to be a different style of stock.
There's just a lot of unknown questions about how Yall Street will work with brands that
(08:15):
are already a part of Wall Street.
Yeah, we should invite someone to come educate us on that.
I started following a little bit of the whole, there's like apps and stuff that track your
senators and representatives and they're buying and trading habits overnight.
And that all of a sudden to me is fascinating.
Oh, the insider information that happens in those weeks.
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Trading that's 100% illegal?
Yeah.
There's a reason that pretty much every elected official at the national level especially,
almost everyone, or millionaires.
Are wearing $1,200 Italian leather shoes?
Yes.
Because they're all trading stocks, which should be, it is technically not allowed,
but yet they all,
I'm telling you.
Have you seen who a president is?
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Oh, this is well before that though.
And it's on both sides of the aisle.
It is.
It is on both sides of the aisle.
And they're trading the same.
Why can't we agree on stuff?
Like, anyway, don't get me started.
They hear about a pipeline going in, then all of a sudden they go to buy property.
Martha.
Martha.
Martha Stewart.
(09:18):
Like baby reindeer?
Oh.
I watched that documentary.
Me too.
I actually really enjoyed it.
It's like, where is it going?
She was really raw and like very open and transparent about just her life story and how she really
got screwed over by James Comey.
Yeah.
She was very open to the time and really wanted her to be the poster child for kind of his
(09:38):
initiatives around insider trading, which she just was just traded a stock.
I mean, it wasn't even like it was a lot of money.
I mean, it was,
Wild.
It was wild.
It ruined her business.
Absolutely.
It took her down from being a billionaire within her business outside of the stock she
traded, which had nothing to do with her business.
She's recovered now, right?
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Yeah, I think she's okay.
She's probably in the garden as we speak.
Besties with snoop.
I know I love who she chooses to be in her circle.
Well, they've done time together, so they can do that.
Not together, but that would be something.
They have great portraits in many ball frames.
I think it was like 2000, when was this?
Like 2001, 2002 when she got popped for...
(10:22):
I don't know dates, but nature than that.
And like, if I could take it back,
I would by 100% went as Martha Stewart for Halloween
and like my orange jumpsuit with her inmate number.
Spray painted on the back and a blonde wig.
I did the same thing for Lindsay Lohan.
But I had a blonde wig.
This is why we're friends.
This is why we're friends.
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Oh my God.
I did wear my giant pleaser heels.
Oh, wowzers.
Photos coming soon to our website.
I'll try to do something else.
Oh my gosh.
Well, the folks down at Tesla down the road here in Austin
are planning on launching an unsupervised full self-driving
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car in Austin this year.
Can read more about it at the ABJ.
But they are...
He confirmed on an earnings call just last week
that quote, he feels confident that we'll be able to bring
an initial launch of an unsupervisor.
Unsupervised, no one in the car full self-driving
to Austin in June.
According to Elon, the city of Austin confirmed to KXN News
(11:25):
that the Austin based electric vehicle company
has been in contact with city officials
on the planned service.
They're looking at...
The problem is like it's unregulated.
So the cities are no longer allowed to regulate
these types of vehicles and these types of things
on the roads.
That was part of last session.
They took some of that local control away.
(11:45):
And this was one of the impacts of that.
So unfortunately, they can just do it.
The city officials can't control what's going on.
So that's why you see these, the Waymo's and the...
Who was the other guys that were here?
Cruise.
Cruise.
Yeah.
They can just come in.
Cruise had problems, so golly.
We've talked about that a couple of times.
Yeah.
But there's a couple of other manufacturers
(12:06):
that are in the testing phase as well that are operating
already here in the Austin area.
Volkswagen is doing a model.
AV Ride, a group that Hyundai is running.
And then of course Waymo and Zooks.
They are all in the testing phase here around town.
So we're a Petri dish, but self-driving cars.
We are.
On the way to work this morning,
(12:26):
I got stuck in a traffic jam.
Because one of those Waymo's couldn't understand,
I guess, the flashy red light.
Because the traffic lights were down.
And so it was like turned into a four-way stop,
at Lamar and whatever it was.
Oh, no.
And there was this Waymo who just sat there.
And all the cars were just there to go around it.
I was like, oh, my God.
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Because it's just getting, stop, go, stop, go, stop, go.
And then as I drove past, I looked to see if there was
someone in there.
And there was this poor person in the passenger seat.
Like in the front passenger seat, and I couldn't imagine they
look kind of like deer in headlights.
And maybe they were there just to sit in the car
to supervise it.
They didn't.
It was really weird.
I was trying to make up what the hell happened there.
I've never been inside of one.
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But I am curious.
Like if you're inside of the car, riding, like, let's say,
I mean, because you can ride share with them, right?
Gary did.
Still?
Yeah, it's not open to the public yet.
They've been to select group.
And signed up for it.
Yeah.
Got it.
Yeah, but if you're in this car, going downtown
(13:31):
or wherever you're going, and you feel unsafe.
What do you do?
What do you do?
Because if you're buckled up and scream for your life.
Yeah, if your Uber driver looks away for a second
and something's happening, you could be like, hey.
You can scream.
And somebody's there.
I would like to ride in one of the, I think it's the,
(13:53):
well, maybe it's not listed here.
I thought it was Zooks that had the Jaguar SUVs.
Well, no Waymo is doing the Jaguar cars.
Maybe it's Waymo.
But I feel like it's kind of like driving with somebody
that, like, one of your friends, it's a bad driver,
and you're just kind of screaming the whole time.
I don't know.
It would feel weird to look over and not have a driver.
Yeah.
We were, when we were in Orlando on an intercity trip,
(14:16):
we went in and tested the buses.
And they look like an elevator.
Like there's not even a steering wheel at all.
You just get in it and it's just open seating.
That's like the Volkswagen van.
Yeah.
And it's, there's nobody in it, but they have cameras inside
that are filming inside the vehicle, as well as, of course,
all around it.
I don't know.
I hate it.
I hate it because the only thing I can think of,
(14:38):
because, you know, artificial intelligence, right?
And I will still ask Chad GPT to create an image for me.
And if that thing isn't all kinds of stuff,
that I don't want to get in a car without a driver.
Like, we're not there yet.
Yeah, we're not there yet.
And I don't put a lot of trust into, you know, the Must-Ox.
(14:58):
Yeah, that.
Well, we see how well those public storage unit trucks
are doing on the road.
The stainless steel.
This one in our parking garage, isn't that?
The trash can on wheels.
Every time we pass it.
It's lucky that it's parked inside because they're all
rusting and falling apart.
Oh, yeah, they're falling apart.
Like, you can just rip.
Was it you, or is that you just rip the bumper off?
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Oh, my gosh.
You can just rip it apart with your hands.
With no effort.
It just comes right off.
You know how they were designed?
That apparently Elon asked his son
to draw a picture of what a car should look like.
And his son drew the picture, and he took it to his engineer
people and said.
One of his 332 sons.
Make this.
Because it does look like a child's drawing.
I don't know how many kids the guy has.
Oh, how many children is he up to?
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He's like Nick Cannon.
Yeah, he was because he's a little bit.
All I know is that he does have a trans child.
Yes.
Yes.
Amazing.
Yes.
Although he doesn't acknowledge her.
Yeah, whether he acknowledges that or not,
he does have a trans child.
Well, he doesn't because he's in there racing her as we speak
on all the platforms that he's on.
But we're not going to go down that.
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No, not today.
That's for another day.
For another day.
But look for that to happen in June.
Great.
For the Muskox.
Is this sad expansion, though, at the plant?
Is that what that expansion was for?
I suppose.
He's kind of coy about that because he's
got the space out in Bastrop too where he's doing this.
Is it abusing the policies?
(16:23):
We're not going to go down that either.
No, no, no.
We're going to.
E.T.J. But that's fine.
It's fine.
On a lighter note, Austin's first women's themed sports
bar is opening soon.
The bar is going to be here in Central Austin.
Formerly the ATX Women's Sports Pub, 72,
co-founded by our friends Deborah and Marlene.
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They are, according to their press release,
going to feature big screens showcasing women's sports
year-round and extensive menu and welcoming environment
for all fans, including the boys, and the LGBT plus community
and allies.
Opening hopefully sometime this spring.
You can find out more information about that at 1972pub.com.
But excited for our friends.
I'm so perfectly timed for today's International Women's
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and Women's Sports Day.
Is it?
Well done.
I think it is today, actually.
I've swept the channels the other day at home,
and there's an entire channel dedicated to women's sports.
I love that.
Because it used to drive me crazy.
I'd purposely sit down to watch a women's something sport,
and you couldn't find anything.
Or maybe it was like a big volleyball match
that I was trying to find.
(17:28):
It's not aired on television.
But yet, it'd be like professional cornhole.
With women?
With men.
And then like, why do professional cornhole players
get TV time?
But I can't watch a women's volleyball match.
What is that stupid college sport
that the kids would play out in the quad
(17:49):
with a tiny baby trampoline?
It slapped the ball on the trampoline.
Quad ball?
Sure, maybe.
And these kids.
I see them do that at the park.
Yeah.
And they're in like Lycra.
Like, calm down.
Wait, isn't quad ball like the rebranded?
I don't know.
(18:10):
The word I just said, quidditch.
Quidditch?
I think they renamed it.
Oh, because of our friend JK.
Yeah.
It looks like it's just like Patty cake with the ball.
You know what I'm talking about, right?
You just kind of slapping the ball into the little trampoline
and it bounces another direction.
Some of these sports, I'm like, that's not a sport.
Also, you're wearing too much polyester.
(18:30):
And I can't.
Is this an American thing?
That's what I was thinking.
Next time you pass Zoker, you'll see some folks out there.
I mean, you've seen American football
and how well that's turned out for us.
Oh, really?
So it's like, we got Super Bowl coming up.
Yeah, we did.
Excited for Super Bowl.
Excited for my chiefs.
OK.
I'm excited to say that.
Who's performing a half time?
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Who is performing a half time?
I don't know.
Oh, me.
I'm going to be eating Philly cheesesteaks.
Go Eagles.
Yeah.
I'm going to be sipping mine with my English friends.
That would be fun.
I mean, I do love the halftime show,
but like bring back a little bit of banter.
Let's have like a Philly cheesesteak eating contest
or something.
(19:12):
I do kind of miss the John Madden
commentary.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think it was just and then the sound effects.
Oh, I would come with it.
I just hope it's not.
I don't know who the announcers are.
I hope it's not Akeman or not Akeman,
but I actually don't really care for him.
It will be Akeman and probably God, what's his name?
Was I like a Romo?
What is his name?
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I'll watch the commercials on YouTube the next day.
That's really cool.
He like ruins baseball.
I think that's why they've moved him over to football.
OK.
What is his name?
You can't think.
And they now favor each other like they're
starting to look alike.
Oh, I do know who you're talking about.
And I can't think of his name either.
But yeah, they look alike nowadays.
But with the teeth.
But yeah, the commercials, I'm ready for the commercials too.
(19:54):
Yes.
Very creative.
They spent a lot of money.
I did love.
Hopefully Dove extends their song because that
is a fun commercial.
I don't remember.
Oh, just look at it.
What you do.
The my neck, my back.
Oh, no.
We written for Dove.
Oh, wow.
How that slipped by me.
Definitely catches the attention.
(20:16):
It does.
I was excited for the Grammys did a great job
on their commercials of giving free airtime to local businesses
that were impacted by the LA fires.
That was really great to see those commercials.
That was amazing.
And like the intentionality behind like the floral
arrangements, which was one of the first commercials I played.
But it was like a small business owner.
And then she did all the florals and then also had a commercial.
(20:39):
And lots of really great messaging.
Throughout the whole program.
Yeah, it was good.
It was good.
It was fun to watch.
I enjoyed it.
I had missed the in memoriam section, which
is normally where I shine.
Oh my hell.
I don't know.
Half the people that are nominated, but like I
know all the people that just died.
I hate this.
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Can't be out of here.
Where I shine.
All right, for our new section, a fun
of facts with a Fiona.
OK, so I took the theme going from the Yal
Street that made me think of Galveston, which I have this
obsession about.
And then knowing it is the Super Bowl this Sunday.
(21:23):
So the fun fact is tied to all of that.
I will ask the question first to see if you can guess.
Who was the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL?
And Galveston is your hint.
Of course, Colton can't play in this game.
That's really not fair.
I might just give it away.
I'll guess myself.
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But I'm pretty sure that is not correct.
It is Michael Sam.
And Michael Sam grew up in Galveston, Texas.
And he was the first openly gay football player
to draft the NFL.
But he didn't actually get to play in a what do you call it
when you're active, like in a natural, you know, roster?
(22:04):
Game thing.
Yeah.
But his announcement was historic.
Me too, Fiona.
But he was not picked until the seventh round
by the St. Louis Rams.
So he basically came out and then didn't get
to do much with his career.
But he's amazing.
And he's really sweet and kind and nice.
And he gives good speeches.
(22:24):
Being drafted seventh is pretty good.
Seventh round is pretty good.
I mean, Brady was drafted 14th round.
No, he was in the team's 12 or 14.
Are you sure?
Deborah Hallow, if you're listening to our broadcast,
be sure to call and correct the record.
Please fact check that.
Oh, yeah.
We can get all this.
And now we have a source.
Yeah, we do.
(22:44):
I'm excited for the pub to open.
It's going to be somewhere on Guadalupe.
It's taking over an old space that was already there.
So it's hopefully it's kind of move in ready
with a little bit of decor and updates and changes.
And then going through the city processes of permitting.
But after the permitting comes the rainbow ribbon cutting.
Yeah.
(23:04):
And yeah.
Well, good fun fact.
Colton, what do you have on the event side for us?
We have an event on February 19th in partnership with the NGLCC.
This will be a virtual event celebrating
and honoring Black History Month.
You can also register for free to attend our monthly chamber
(23:25):
happy hour on February 20th at El Raval.
And on February 22nd, we will be returning to Lockhart, Texas
as part of our small town big pride program.
Yeah.
You can register to attend that event as well.
It costs $10 to ride the bus with us from downtown Austin
(23:46):
to Lockhart.
There will be beverages on the bus.
It is a fun bus ride, I promise you.
Yes.
Really cute on the Lockhart bus.
Yes.
So cute.
If you do not want to ride the bus with us,
but you still want to attend, you can RSVP for free
and meet us out in Lockhart.
Yeah.
I've got several friends who have said they're doing that.
(24:06):
Well, they're going to drive out themselves,
but they're going.
Nice.
Yeah.
I'm excited for it.
I accidentally skipped one.
We also have a health and wellness committee
event on February 12th at 4 PM.
It's a quick 30-minute call, and we
have some exciting events coming up,
including free CPR classes for members and more.
(24:27):
And as always, you can find out more about all of these events
at AustinLGBTChamber.com.
Amazing.
Loverly.
Oh, South by is coming up too.
More on that later.
Now, we're not going to do South by this year.
We're just going to skip it.
What?
OK.
Oh, my.
OK.
I think this is going to be a huge blowout here for South
(24:47):
by.
I think South by is going to bring it loud and strong this year.
It's going to be the last year that we have the convention
center for it'll be shut down for four years after that.
So I think, yeah, I think people need to be rebuilt.
Rebuilt.
OK.
Sorry, I missed that memo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's being rebuilt.
So this will be the last one that they'll
be able to host it in the convention center.
But it's still all around town.
(25:08):
But I think this is going to be a big one this year.
A four year project.
That's incredible.
That is insane.
I'm excited for South by.
My filmmaker friends, they have their next documentary
primaring itself by.
We made Trans Military together.
That's amazing.
That's great.
Yeah, so I'm excited about that.
Yeah, it's such a good event.
It's such an economic boom to our city.
(25:29):
300 plus million dollars of economic impact
for South by Southwest.
They're a good partner of our city.
And the two names and two brands,
the brands have become synonymous.
You can't say South by Southwest in any country
in the world and not have people associate it with Austin.
So it's good stuff.
And same thing for Austin.
That deal.
Yeah.
And we'll have our activation March 8.
But more details to come on that.
(25:50):
Yes.
Yes.
So our chamber is a membership organization.
We also want to highlight members that have joined.
What you got for us, Amy?
We have Loop UX.
They are a global user experience research organization.
That's a lot of words.
Yeah.
Lena and Lena.
Yes.
And they are so smart.
(26:12):
Yeah.
Spelled differently, though.
Yes.
Same country.
Same country.
We also have, I'm going to mess this up, Luso Carazaria.
I probably messed that up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good chance.
Anyway, lovely, lovely establishment.
(26:36):
David over there at Luso.
It's a paint and body shop.
And had some friends in the Q plus community say, hey, homie.
It's going to be a wild ride.
We need you to tell the city that you have a safe space here.
Like, it's always a great experience for his customers.
(26:58):
And it was a lovely conversation when he joined.
That's amazing.
I'm really excited to have him at the chamber.
In car places, it really scared me.
So I love that.
Now we have a safe place to go.
Yeah.
Paint and it's, well, OK.
So it's paint and body.
Yes.
He does specialize in exotics.
So like, Lambo's.
Oh, good.
(27:19):
Now I have somewhere to take my Lambo.
He does it all.
He does it all.
My poor shark.
It's not a mechanic shop.
Now, if you have mechanic issues caused by an accident,
yes, they will.
It's collision repair.
But it is mostly paint and body.
So you know where my tundra is going.
Wouldn't right next to Lambo's.
That's right.
Where it should be.
Yeah.
(27:39):
2002.
That's good.
All my heart.
That's good.
Yeah.
So Loop UX and Luso Carazeria.
I'm so sorry, David.
But you can find them in our chamber memory, member directory.
If you just hit the chamber directory and look for auto,
you'll they'll pop up on the directory listing.
(28:01):
There you go.
And then you can contact us and tell us how to.
So we were talking about certifications a little bit
today at the luncheon just briefly.
The JP Morgan Chase Scholarship is still
active and open on the NGLCC website.
So if you are considering certification,
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go apply for a scholarship.
JP Morgan Chase wants to pay for it.
Nice.
Yeah.
So you get your certification.
And if you're not already a member of the chamber,
you also get membership with us for a year.
What a deal.
It is a deal.
I do like that.
Yeah.
Well, as always, we thank you so much
for joining us on our chamber podcast.
(28:45):
If you want to become a guest or a sponsor,
you can email us at info at austinlgbtchamber.com.
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And we will see you next time.
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