Speaker 1: These stories. We law lie from the Lesterhold studio. Here's
Speaker 1: Tricia Delicia.
Speaker 2: All right, So Governor Greg Abbatt signed a recently passed
Speaker 2: bill into law on Sunday that bans k through tell
Speaker 2: students from using their cell phones or any other personal
Speaker 2: communicating devices in school during the day. They can either
Speaker 2: each school can choose to either just ban it in
Speaker 2: the classroom or they could actually choose to ban it
Speaker 2: from the entire school campus. I know that a couple
Speaker 2: of high schools did this, like tested it out this
Speaker 2: past year and teachers immediately said they noticed a difference
Speaker 2: in students paying attention and in grades.
Speaker 1: So it is now a law.
Speaker 2: Even though the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six school
Speaker 2: years a few months away, there will be no cell
Speaker 2: phones at schools anymore.
Speaker 1: Do you want to bet right? This is all about enforcement.
Speaker 3: This is this is one teacher that doesn't want to
Speaker 3: play by the rules and doesn't care what They're not
Speaker 3: going to do anything to her or.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like hands free law.
Speaker 4: But how often do you see people messing with their
Speaker 4: phones and it doesn't get enforced.
Speaker 1: It firsta got one, it is in a school zone
Speaker 1: out Oh that was expensive. It was very expensive.
Speaker 2: I was sus when Landry was smaller, and I was
Speaker 2: late getting home, and I was calling the babysitter to
Speaker 2: let her know I'm running a little bit late. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize I was in a school zone and I
Speaker 2: was on my farm. No, I was over like a
Speaker 2: oldtorf and lamar area right in there. And as soon
Speaker 2: as I was on the phone, not speeding, just in
Speaker 2: a school zone, and an officer and a motorcycle passed me,
Speaker 2: and as soon as our eyes locked, I instantly realized
Speaker 2: what I was doing.
Speaker 1: And he pulled me over. And I told him.
Speaker 2: I was like, I go, I know why he pulled
Speaker 2: me over. I totally did it. I'm so sorry. I
Speaker 2: get it. And he was like shocked that I was
Speaker 2: admitting it, and he was like, yeah, I have to
Speaker 2: be a ticket for this.
Speaker 1: I don't have the discretion to not give it to you.
Speaker 1: And it was like a four hundred dollars ticket, maybe
Speaker 1: be doubled in school z own kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Well, getting back to the phones in schools.
Speaker 3: I think the reason Trisia is so alleviate, so happy
Speaker 3: about this is because our daughter wears her out on
Speaker 3: text messaging during the school day.
Speaker 1: It's like, are you supposed to be in class? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then she'll suck me in.
Speaker 2: I'll tell her I'm not going to like, don't text
Speaker 2: me during class, you can text me in between, But
Speaker 2: then I kind of lose track of what time it
Speaker 2: is and she'll text me something, Mom, guess what happened,
Speaker 2: And I'm instantly all what, and I get sucked in
Speaker 2: and then I'm initiating text to her. It's very confusing.
Speaker 2: So I think it's gonna help a lot. Also, they're
Speaker 2: saying that it's supposed to help with their mental health
Speaker 2: and social media. Not being on it, you know, during
Speaker 2: the school day also grades obviously, But yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it would totally depend on which teachers actually enforce it,
Speaker 2: which schools choose to enforce it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm all for it, though, I think it's smart.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe that they allowed it to begin with.
Speaker 4: Then, I know my daughter's twenty three, and I choose
Speaker 4: really that first generation to have it in like middle
Speaker 4: school on Like, yeah, very destructive.
Speaker 1: Very destructive.
Speaker 2: They will allow students who have documented health their safety needs,
Speaker 2: who need their devices to keep them obviously emotional support
Speaker 2: phone I guess, so.
Speaker 1: What are you so? What could possibly qualify for that?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, some kids who have diabetes, they're ye, this
Speaker 2: monitor is sent to their phone stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: So hey, it'll be a different school year this year.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. Maybe the kids will rise up
Speaker 3: and revolt, you know, and they're like no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I wonder what the teachers think. I bet they're relieved.
Speaker 1: Probably so do you know that? I've told our daughter.
Speaker 2: I'm like, do you know that I got through my
Speaker 2: entire school career with no cell phone and was still
Speaker 2: able to get a hold of my mom if I
Speaker 2: needed to.
Speaker 1: I survived. You can survive if you don't have a
Speaker 1: cell phone.
Speaker 2: You'll just have to tell me all the gossip about
Speaker 2: the girls after you get home from school.
Speaker 1: She just can't comprehend. We also survived with going to
Speaker 1: school without a water bottle. Yeah. Yeah, wateruntains are gross,
Speaker 1: is what she says.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somehow we didn't collapse in the heap of dehydration.
Speaker 4: Remember those I bet you had them too, Those homemade
Speaker 4: troths they'd make for track and football and all the
Speaker 4: outdoor sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they to a garden hose to like a plumbing
Speaker 4: pipe shooting water out, and everybody run up, pulled their
Speaker 4: helmet off, and gather around like cattle. I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all survived somehow, we did, right.
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see what happens with the schools
Speaker 3: this year with no cell phones at school.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of happy about that, to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: Coming up next, uh, Austin and Georgetown received some big
Speaker 3: travel awards. We're going to tell you about that, So
Speaker 3: stay with us. It's coming up on Austin's eighty station.
Speaker 3: What three point one brain today? Only thirty five percent
Speaker 3: in a high today of about ninety degrees, while the
Speaker 3: rest of the country is just dying when this heat wave.
Speaker 3: We are cooler than normal if you ask me, with
Speaker 3: only a high of ninety degrees.
Speaker 1: I saw some parts of it.
Speaker 3: There was one I think it was a Missouri that
Speaker 3: a street just buckled because it was so hot.
Speaker 1: The heat index was like one hundred and eighteen or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a car was driving over it at the
Speaker 2: exact moment it buckled and launched the car into the air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very strange, but only it.
Speaker 4: I like the early early triple digits here where you
Speaker 4: see a lot of new Austinites Buckle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right. You had to get
Speaker 1: here so bad. You didn't know this was common, did you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't tell you this when you were here
Speaker 3: for south By Southwest, did they know?
Speaker 1: They never help that out of the visitors package.
Speaker 3: For sure that it's one hundred degrees for five months
Speaker 3: of the year in Austin, But it doesn't stop Central
Speaker 3: Texas and Austin and Georgetown for getting some travel awards.
Speaker 1: What are these all about, tea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the heat is not keeping Austin a Georgetown from
Speaker 2: being hot travel destinations. Collectively, the two cities have earned
Speaker 2: six twenty twenty five Texas Travel Awards. These awards were
Speaker 2: created by the publishers of Austin Monthly and Texas Music
Speaker 2: and first up is the best big market live music
Speaker 2: venue in twenty twenty five is Geraldine's, the restaurant and
Speaker 2: bar that's inside the hotel Banzant.
Speaker 1: Oh really?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I don't even know about this
Speaker 2: down in the rainy district. Yeah, large market vinyant.
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 2: Big market live music venue?
Speaker 1: Have you heard of Jardine's JB.
Speaker 4: I've been to some sort of meetup thing at the
Speaker 4: bar there, but I didn't know there was a venue
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has live music. Performance is seven days a week. Yeah,
Speaker 2: popular Reef top bars. Zanzibar which autumn. My friend and
Speaker 2: I say that when you say the word Zanzibar, you
Speaker 2: have to say it like this.
Speaker 1: Zen zi Bar, very big word.
Speaker 2: Right when the title is the best Instagrammable spot because
Speaker 2: it has like a tropical theme, big views of downtown, right, Matt.
Speaker 3: Label, they're going to have Instagram They're going to regret
Speaker 3: being named that, probably because they're going to have Instagrammers
Speaker 3: all over them.
Speaker 4: Oh really Yeah, Like I see people lying, there's always
Speaker 4: always someone in line at that I love you so much,
Speaker 4: such a simple thing.
Speaker 1: And then there's that one that looks like an Austin postcard.
Speaker 1: That is that.
Speaker 4: What is that Monroe in South First took me forever
Speaker 4: to figure out where that one was.
Speaker 1: It isn't the high How are you? That's on the drag? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4: That building is completely torn down and they left that
Speaker 4: one wall it will be part of when they rebuild
Speaker 4: all that. And he's I don't know if you've been
Speaker 4: on the drag lately. But it's they've done well. The
Speaker 4: whole Scientology thing has been rebuilt. And then but closer
Speaker 4: to downtown of that, they're redoing a whole block by
Speaker 4: the Catholic Church there where the WO barbershop and the
Speaker 4: dorm was a lot of people say Wooten in college
Speaker 4: in the eighties.
Speaker 1: We call it the WU. But that whole.
Speaker 4: Block's being redone and all that's left standing is the
Speaker 4: high How are you wall Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like that that they kept that. Yeah, that's smart.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: The other awarded we were just talking about this earlier
Speaker 2: is the Waller Creek revitalization product. The Waterloo Greenway project
Speaker 2: was voted best Revitalization Product project for the one and
Speaker 2: a half mile the greenway connecting to Ladybird Park to
Speaker 2: Greeny Street.
Speaker 1: The Amphitheater we've just talked to. Yeah, we were just
Speaker 1: talking about Waterloo Park. It's nice revamp there.
Speaker 2: In Georgetown, the best small to mid sized bar is
Speaker 2: the Brass Peacock, a speakeasy called the Brass Peacock.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever been there on the Square? Yeah, located downtown
Speaker 1: on the Square.
Speaker 2: It looks super cool, very like intimate, kind of dark
Speaker 2: and moody, which I like that. The Two Step in
Speaker 2: Country Festival named best Music Festival.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got a bunch of rain last year for
Speaker 1: that too. That sucked for them, that's really yeah.
Speaker 3: Quick question for you, JB. What was it like It
Speaker 3: was Georgetown like that when you were growing up there?
Speaker 4: Hell no, we didn't have anything to do except throw
Speaker 4: rocks at each other and cruise and avoid cops. We
Speaker 4: would cruise in our cars, you know, could we could
Speaker 4: buy old muscle cars for like a few grand back then,
Speaker 4: and we'd cruise between the Sonic and the Mister Gaddies.
Speaker 1: Like on a drag or like on a loop or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a loop because you you'd have to
Speaker 4: go down Maine and take and then take, you know,
Speaker 4: head out towards what's now Lake Georgetown to go to
Speaker 4: buy mister Gaddies. Like Georgetown wasn't there. We didn't have
Speaker 4: that where it was Six Booties, Fourth Booties. That's late Georgetown.
Speaker 4: That's that's where we would meet outside of town. Like
Speaker 4: the cops didn't know it was called. We referred to
Speaker 4: it as Fourth Booties. I don't know how it got
Speaker 4: that name, but it was like, you know, it was
Speaker 4: very meeting up at fourth Booties was very dazed and
Speaker 4: confused out drinking in a field. But I you know,
Speaker 4: in high school, I was a cook at a place
Speaker 4: called Cafe on the Square. And you know that Georgetown
Speaker 4: was dry then, like you couldn't buy booze. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: you had to get a membership to get cocktails at
Speaker 4: Cafe on the Square. And in the Square was just
Speaker 4: slow dying, a slow death, you know, to keep trying
Speaker 4: to keep the movie theater open.
Speaker 1: The boutiques wouldn't survive. No one was downtown.
Speaker 4: There was GOLs department store, which was just a local
Speaker 4: you know, Sears kind of thing. Yeah, you know, you
Speaker 4: go there to get your wranglers and whatever. But it
Speaker 4: was just dying. And then you know, as Austin was
Speaker 4: growing at grus a suburb, they they not only overturned
Speaker 4: the alcohol ban or whatever is now, they embrace it
Speaker 4: and you can go have cocktails and walk around the
Speaker 4: streets of the Square. And they just leaned into it
Speaker 4: and it started. Yeah, it just started booming. And it's
Speaker 4: that town is thriving. It's nothing like when I grew up.
Speaker 1: The Square is super cool now. It was not when
Speaker 1: I grew up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a really cool toy store. They have
Speaker 2: a can this shop. They had those cute little bars
Speaker 2: all around it. They have great places to shop, home
Speaker 2: to Core and stuff like that. Like it's the destination
Speaker 2: when you go there, for sure.
Speaker 4: Georgetown cool. I don't even think we had a nice
Speaker 4: grocery store. We we didn't have an H G B.
Speaker 4: I don't remember that growing up. We had an old
Speaker 4: piggly wiggly where a couple of the couple of the
Speaker 4: lights had died and they didn't even bother to replace some.
Speaker 1: Forriver it was the iiglelywig. That's I don't think we
Speaker 1: told JB the thought.
Speaker 3: So when Triciaan and I went and we were driving
Speaker 3: down to Kingsville for our daughters. She was graduating from
Speaker 3: this leadership academy, and we're going through some little small
Speaker 3: town and it was still dark out, and there was
Speaker 3: a donut shop in a strip mall and it was
Speaker 3: called in the line that should have said Fresh Donuts,
Speaker 3: but the F was an R and the E were out,
Speaker 3: so all you saw was the S n H. So
Speaker 3: I leaned over to Tricia and I elbowed her and
Speaker 3: I pointed at the sign and I went, look, it's.
Speaker 1: Donuts Shell Donuts here.
Speaker 2: Butbody only have a few donuts in here.
Speaker 3: So Lloyd Soly and donuts producing gaddies.
Speaker 4: And Sonic, Yeah, Sonic. I don't know, and all I
Speaker 4: think this is true. In a lot of small towns,
Speaker 4: there's a cool there's a dork side and a cool side.
Speaker 1: At the Sonic Oh oh no, how you excited.
Speaker 4: To be on the cool side. You had to go
Speaker 4: half a lap and go around on the other side.
Speaker 4: I don't know why that was a rule.
Speaker 2: It's like the front or the back of the school bus.
Speaker 2: It's just a thing, right. If you were you were
Speaker 2: a dork. If you sat in the front, you were cool.
Speaker 2: If you got to sit in the back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. Georgetown't get any other awards for some.
Speaker 1: No, but Green did.
Speaker 2: In a Brothels they got a lot of awards, and
Speaker 2: Brothels got five awards.
Speaker 3: Wait, a minut man is booming Green Texas and Green Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Green Hall, that whole little shopping area in Green
Speaker 2: in New bron Fols right outside in New Bronpos they
Speaker 2: got There's a big mistake people.
Speaker 3: Make about going to Green. The idea is spend the
Speaker 3: day in Green. You can't spend the day in Green.
Speaker 3: There's not it's not big enough. You walk down the shops.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would do if you rolled it in with
Speaker 4: Wimberley new bron F Hols too, and yeah Green if you.
Speaker 3: Got there early, you know, and shopped around or did whatever,
Speaker 3: and they went to a show at Green Hall. Yeah,
Speaker 3: or something like that. You know, I could see it.
Speaker 3: But you ain't spending a full day in Green, Texas.
Speaker 2: We would to get out of the river, go and
Speaker 2: chow down at Green Hall or at the restaurant, the
Speaker 2: Green restaurant.
Speaker 1: What's it called the Gristmill?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that is so freaking Goodma in Green.
Speaker 1: I thought that was in sam Marcus. A lot of them,
Speaker 1: I think sort of claim it. Maybe I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: And I'm almost as an Opah's guy, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: a Peppers at the Falls guy in San Marcos.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not there, that's what is that now? Peppers?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 1: I met someone for breakfast there a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's no longer Peppers on the Falls. But man,
Speaker 1: what a cool Building's super cool, super cool. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's something we have in Austin. I have to look
Speaker 1: it up anything else. Trust No, I think we're good.
Speaker 2: Just Central Texas, Austin and the surrounding areas hot hot
Speaker 2: travel destinations and getting all kinds of awards for it.
Speaker 1: I think it's cool, but it also stresses me out
Speaker 1: a little bit.