Small-Business Grants; Austin based Tesla Sales Crash; Fun Facts w/Fiona!

0:00 [Music] Welcome to the Austin Business News podcast. I'm Cena Cannon, your host. This is a podcast where business meets public policy and maybe a martini, be it alcoholinduced or not. We're going to talk local business news on today's podcast. Small business grants that are available to you. And Austinbased Tesla sales data is out. We'll take a look. [Music] Howdy all. Hello. Joined with Amy and Fiona. Colton is not

0:48 feeling well today. Although on my script here, I misspelled his name and put Colon is out today. Jesus. Oh, poor Colton. Yes. So, I hope it has nothing to do with that. No, but all of our colons are in. Yeah. Boy. Oh my gosh. What What a weekend of events in central Texas. Holy hell. Holy hell. Terrible. My friends from New Jersey and DC texting, "Are you okay?" Yeah. From England or even Yeah. International news. Yeah, it did make international news. But thankfully, my RV park is in downtown Austin. We had um good drainage. Seeing the videos of the RV parks really what used to be the RV parks. Yeah, the streets were flooded in Lockhart. I mean, I have a nice little

1:34 water line on my drive driveway where all the debris kind of was. What's What's the nearest waterway that y'all have up there? Uh, that is a great question. Colorado does Colorado? No, I mean very near us is Guadaloop, Frio, San Marcus River. San Marcus River I think is probably the closest, but we have creeks. Yeah. Yeah. And we do have flood planes. I'm not in a flood plane, thankfully. Good buying decision. But um yeah, well, an insurance cost. Forget it. Uh but like I within five miles. Okay. Of me. That is like the border of where it starts. Georgetown. Real hard. 25 or 50 here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, devastating weekend. It kind of like Well, I mean, we were chatting over the weekend and I

2:20 was just stuck in bed like, "Oh my god, this is terrible news." Yeah, it hit our household pretty hard. My wife's family is a fourth generation camp Mystic girls. It's a quite a sisterhood. And I mean, her mother went for 15 years. Her sister and her went for I 12 years. Their niece has gone for the better part of 15 years and was a camp counselor. Wow. Thankfully this year she was not a camp counselor. She took a nice trip to overseas with her girlfriends and thankfully but yeah it was very very devastating weekend. Her mother lives right there on the river so we make sure she was evacuated and Oh man had her dog with her and then they had to farm out the dog to a guy who was really nice. Had a big space and kept a bunch of people's dogs for them and Yeah. terrifying. Absolutely. Yeah. So her we have to go

3:05 out next weekend. She's got a a dock that is not hers that has been washed up on her shore. um car, actually a truck. Oh my gosh. And her fencing is gone. So we didn't say a shed, too. A shed? Yeah. Does she have Does she have any idea who they belong to? No, it could be somebody way up the river from demolished. I It's like toothpicks. So I guess with the truck, you just have to look up the license plate and figure out who it is. And it's just a random truck, isn't it? Guess we'll get with local authorities and figure out like how do you pull that stuff out? It's embedded in the riverbed slash what was the edge of her property. Oh my word. It's horrible. Yeah. We need we need an army of lesbian volunteers to go out to Lock uh um what's that called where she lives? Kurville. Kurville. Outside of Kurville. She's in Ingram.

3:50 Well, right in the heart of it. Speaking of Lockheart though, they the gals out there are really pulling it together and pallets of water, toiletries, things for the dogs, clothes. Like they're really proud of my friends out there. That's great. I saw, of course, Texas's version of FEMA. Uh, HB 18ers were all the convoy. Convoy headed out there. Gotta love our HB, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, it's really nice that Central Texas is pulling together when others, you know, are not, it hasn't affected me at all. Like, I was fine. Slept through the rain, woke up, had this weird water line in my yard. But, you know, I think Lockheart was unscathed. And I think it's really great that people are pulling together. Yeah. Yeah, devastating what's happened. Absolutely. Speaking of devastation, um

4:37 we've got some headlines, but a good news followed by uh some sales data for uh our good friends over at uh Tesla and and the Muskox that runs that place. But let's take a look at the the first headline. [Music] So, on the good news side, there are some small business grants available this month. Uh, while Silicon Valley is busy trying to replace your barista with a robot and your therapist with an AI chatbot that calls you bro, a few corporate giants are doing something refreshingly human, writing actual checks to help real small businesses not just survive, but maybe even thrive. So, enter All State and Door Dash, two names that you usually associate with car accidents and coal fries, are now playing an unlikely hero on Main Street. Through a new round of grants, reading

5:24 it as actual real money, not just exposure and marketing. These uh grants are tossing in $10,000 lifelines to small businesses in cities like Austin, Houston, and Miami. Translation: Real Cash for real businesses trying to survive real rising rents. A Tik Tok trends. an economy that feels like it's running on venture capital and vibes. So, let's see what's happening. All State acting like a good neighbor, although it's a wrong brand. Uh, but you get the point. This teaming up with the US Chamber of of Commerce uh coalition to, uh, bring black businesses, giving $25 million to those enterprises through 2028. Uh, it's not a handout, of course. It's a strategic bet on the kind of economic engine that creates jobs and small business and scrappy entrepreneurs. Our folks over at Door Dash are giving back to the very

6:10 entrepreneurs that it built its empire on. The quote accelerator for local restaurants is basically a startup camp for mom and mom and pop and pop joints with training capital and polite middle finger to the corporate industrial food complex. So, it's easy to dunk on corporations and sometimes they do deserve it. But when they get it right, when they put their money where their glossy Super Bowl ads, well, that's worth celebrating. So, yeah, it's a PR win, but it's also a win for someone's family-owned restaurant or corner boutique or late night taco truck grinding to make payroll. And if a $10,000 check helps keep the dream alive and lights on, well, that's an ROI we can all get behind. Bottom line, big biz is backing small biz, it's not charity, it's economic strategy. And in a country where small and mid-size businesses generate nearly half the jobs, that's a kind of capitalism that's good for Main

6:56 Street and not just Wall Street. So, well done, All State and Door Dash. Now, if you could just fix your app and deliver fries that don't taste like regret, well, that'd be cooking. Tastes like regret. I heard taco truck and I thought of the quitter ultimatum. Oh boy. Lord, I wonder if that business. I don't do the trash TV. Y'all know this. Good bubble gum for the brain. You don't have to think when you watch. No, it's amazing. No, I love it. I love it, too. Anyway, so I didn't mean to immediately distract us down a different rabbit hole, but yeah, if you haven't watched Queer Ultimatum and you don't know about taco trucks or food trucks, just go watch it. You'll figure it out. All right, maybe those young women will be applying for a small business. Yeah, these are great. I love when these come out.

7:41 I think some of my like Door Dash There should be like a Door Dash diary for like all the times when you drive by at like 7 in the morning. Yeah. And you see people have Door Dash still out on their front door. Oh god. Especially if it's a poke bowl. Now that's regret. Well, I definitely have regret when I see the Taco Bell bag on my counter in my kitchen. I'm like, "Oh, I did that last night and I don't remember." It's not good. It's not good. Yep. Yep. Cool. And greasy food is the best, though. If you can remember to open your door, though, if you can stay sober enough long enough to open your door. Oh my gosh. Well, let's take a look at the next headline. [Music] Austinbased Tesla sales, it's a crash. It took a bit of a nap and somehow the stock is still doing push-ups. Tesla dropped its Q2 2025 delivery bombshell.

8:28 384,000 cars, down a gut-wrenching 13% from the same stretch last year. That's 444,000 units in Q4 of 2024 that they sold. Yeah, it's a second straight quarter of declines. And no, that is not a typo, folks. But here is the kicker. The production line kept humming, building out another 410,000, meaning Tesla is now stockpiling more cars than Napoleon's ghost army. So, they've got around 26,000 extra EVs just sitting there like a gadget Frankenstein moment waiting for buyers. So, what's going on? Almost all deliveries came from the Model 3 and Model Y duo, the legacy models. And well, the Cybert truck, yeah, just 10,000 units. So, their sexy

9:16 new truck is still lost in the garage, mainly because it looks like garbage. A brand blowback, Elon's political escapades, east versus west market competition, tax credit uncertainty. It's all denting. Taylor's uh Tesla's tailor made demand. And of course, then there's EV fatigue. Full market has slowed down. China upstarts are eating into Tesla's lunch. Europe is shrugging to Tesla and moving on to other brands. Yet, paradoxically, the stock ticked up 3 to 6%. Likely because Wall Street had already braced for the Armageddon, and it quote wasn't that bad. Silver linings, you're going to have to squint for them. The uh meltdown, Tesla is pushing the robo taxis in Austin, and battery power deployments aren't

10:01 collapsing. The refreshed Model Y also launched and the next affordable model is supposedly right around the corner, but delivery bottlenecks from earlier redesigns may have delayed some of the momentum. Boy, wow. I feel like I see so many Teslas all the time now. Like more and more. Yeah. Well, I mean that tracks since they didn't get them here. Yeah, it's a little harder to buy if you lived in, I don't know, pick a different market. Saskatchewan or something. Saskatchewan. Jeez. really went way out there with that. Saskatoon. Saskatoon. Okay. Yellow Knife. How far up do you want to go? I was in the valley not too long ago and because he's got such a presence down there with the whole SpaceX. There were Tesla trucks and Tesla cars all over the place. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I think it's wherever his

10:47 brand has is is doing well. Well, I'm sure they get like a fleet discount probably, right? Working for the guy probably. But um I have so many questions cuz when I think about my lithium ion powered tools, those batteries expire after a while. So if they just have cars sitting, does that cut into your life span of like what they guarantee? Like how long the battery itself lasts? And it's the whole chassis of the vehicle is the battery. Like it's the whole base of the vehicle. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, I know there's a load of folks and and this is like across the pond where they're really they're poed about essentially false advertising. Sure. And um that the the life of the battery doesn't actually last as long as was

11:34 once claimed. So, I don't know. Well, European sales and Asian sales are down like some 45%. And of course, a lot of that is both political, but also BYD is killing it. It's a better looking vehicle. It's got more innovation and the price point is obscene, Lilo. Well, that's what I'm saying. It's like it's affordability. It's affordability and like I don't know. There's more out there. There's more options. Yeah. He's just not innovating. Yeah. I think I would faster get like a Chevy Volt than Do they still make a Chevy Volt? I think they do. I mean, Riven just got a billion dollar investment from Volkswagen and it's a much cooler looking vehicle. Oh man, that the Volkswagen EV van. Oh, it's cute, man. It's cool. It's so cute. I would rock that for sure. But I think you have to get an American car to benefit from the big

12:19 beautiful bill that just passed, don't you? So go for the Chevy Vault maybe because then you can get your I suppose because you know got to go America, buy American. I just need Toyota to do a 100% EV. I don't think they have one yet. I think they're still hybrids. I think they're still hybrids. Yeah. Yeah. So come on Toyota. The problem is like the in Texas it's hard even when they say it's, you know, four or 500 miles. That's cute. Yeah. Right. Like in Texas that's not going to do it for you. No, the the Jeep, what is it? The 4 bye. It's like a It's a It's a plug-in hybrid, but I've heard the mileage on that one is terrible. Terrible. Yeah. Like 33 miles to the gallon. That's great cuz better than a traditional Jeep, right? But if I was to drive from

13:05 Lockhart and back, battery's dead, right? And then what if you drive from Lockhart to somewhere else that doesn't have a charging system? And so it's my understanding that the gas tank is also smaller to make everything fit. So like you have to find a gas station now every 150 miles. Give me a break. Not a chance. I mean we're you we're trying but we're not there. I mean this is the same argument though that I'm sure somebody in a corset said back in the, you know, Model T days when they were trying to convert people from horse and buggy to these little Model T's that went what 12 miles an hour. Love it. And the person in the corset was like, I am not sitting down in this thing. Speaking of, have you seen all the protests with the get the horse and carriage off the roadways?

13:50 No. Yeah. Tell us about that. Just I've seen it come across my feed. And I don't know if it's just cuz I've got friends everywhere. The algorithm is weird. But there's people who are just it's understand that it can be dangerous. Like there's road rules where you have to put the little illuminated triangle in the back of your buggy if you're going to have a horse. riding a horse and buggy that we need to protest. Is there a lot of people riding a horse and buggy? I was going to say, is this in Texas? Well, I will tell you there's nobody cleaning up the horse in Lockheart in downtown Lockheart when they come through. There's a whole pack of them that come through every weekend and it's it's just like a bum to-nose horse ride where I think this woman in town, she you know, she takes folks on a little trail ride or whatever, but the trail happens to go through downtown Lockhart and if you're not careful when you're

14:36 walking out of the bar. Yeah. Well, whoops. Yep. That's not just an oops. That is that is a I have ruined my whole evening and my favorite boots. Seriously? Yeah. You can get bags for that. You know, have you seen those bags that they'll hang off the back of the horse to catch all the poop? Yeah, they have those in like the city, like the New York. Yeah. Yeah, maybe we should get those in literal bag of I just feel like a snow shovel and a rake when they come through. A rake. Evil. Have you seen the size? Oh, it's huge. No, in fact. Okay. You know, I grew up in rural Lincolnshire surrounded by animals and horses and stuff. And so, my cousin still lives there, Emma, and she's horse mad and she actually has her own horse. So couple of summers ago, I went back to spend a

15:22 couple of weeks with them and she had me shoveling the every single day, mucking the stalls. It wasn't just mucking the stalls. No, it was like this ac like let's say five acres of land where her horse Rolo just roams all day and shits every all over and every day it would take about an hour to 90 minutes to shovel the and even in the pasture. Yes. Why would you do that? I mean, because you have to cuz otherwise it builds up too much. Like you have to do Emma doesn't like Fiona and so she told her to go. Never. They just they just cook. So she has No, no, no, no, no, no. You got to clean it up. And so in fact, there's Emma and her friend's horse, right? So there's two horses and even though it's July, it's freezing and pouring with rain and she

16:08 has me shoveling the every day. I have never heard of this ever. It's true. Emillion years ago. I think she was pulling a prank on you. Like, "Hey, Fiona, go go go scoop the poop." No, you go on to her Instagram and she will show videos of herself scooping the poop. Probably a whole Only fans page right there. Oh, they need they need some good Texas clay out there because I have never heard of anyone shoveling in a pasture. I remember a thousand years ago when I uh lived in Vegas, we had horses or and but it was out in the middle of nowhere. I don't I can't think that we ever picked it up, but I do remember my finest horse moment was um a buddy of mine, we were out at her place and we were riding and her of course her horse lived on her property. Mine stayed at a stable. So her horse knew where he was going and so you know like we say like

16:54 the last 100 yards when they see their house they're cooking it. So he is picks up speed and starts going. So, of course, mine follows. And in Vegas, they had these little like cinder block everything's a center block wall. And then in between the houses in this particular development were like two and three block high kind of divisions between your properties. And there's a guy fixing his car, hood was open, his head was under it. All this guy saw one moment when he looked up was the belly of our horses leaping over his little tiny wall and his car repair shop that he had set up in his driveway. Absolutely not. Yeah. Mine clipped his hood and it slammed his hood. Fortunately, he got out of there. But yeah, so I'm pretty sure I probably and he in that moment without fail.

17:40 I don't know. Yes, it was a lot of talking happening right now. But maybe in England because it's so wet and boggy all the time. probably like you can't like we have we have a we had a game growing up like with the cow pats like it would cow chips cow chip I think cuz it dries here cuz they would cook in the heat and then you just throw them at your friends. This is quite the podcast. I will I'll ask Emma. I'll ask Emma. I I'm thinking now like maybe I Okay. No, I know. I know this fact. Yeah. Okay. No, my I watched my sister muck out horses almost every day, you know, my entire childhood. Wowee, that sounds This is a very educational podcast, but speaking of education, let's shift gears. Oh, here we go. And I got a nice fun fact with Fiona.

18:25 A lovely educational fun fact for you. So, I know that we just got through June being LGBTQ plus pride, but did you know it's now July, which means it's disability pride month? Ah, did you know that one, Amy? No. I didn't think you did. Sure didn't. Thanks for tuning in. Let me educate you further. So 36% of LGBTQ plus adults in the US report living with a disability. And that compare that to just 24% of non-LGBTQ adults. So this means that our community is actually more likely about 1.5 times more likely to be living with a disability. and I am going to uplift an amazing person who lives at the

19:12 intersection of disability and queerness. And this person is Shella Man, who's a deaf, genderqueer, transmasculine artist, model, and activist. They made history as the first deaf transmasculine actor in a DC superhero sho show was Titans. So go look up their Instagram. that they are using their voice all over the platforms to champion disability justice, queer liberation, and authentic representation. And this is great timing given I had to wait an hour to have my hearing aids cleaned this morning and I'm still not convinced they put the right size of little pod thing that goes in my ear. But it makes this very personal to be uplifting and celebrating Chella and disability pride month as somebody who also lives with a disability. And I'll leave you with a

19:58 quote that Chella says, "Our identities do not limit us, they expand us." Here we are honoring disability pride month right after LGBTQ pride month. Wow. Love that. In the disability in conference is this month every July disability in. I've been there a couple of times. It's the disability version of NGLCC. Okay. It's fabulous. Been a speaker, a featured speaker there before. Yeah. Yeah. I won the pitch two years ago and I was on the main stage speaking last year. Cool. This year I have FOMO. I'm going to be missing all my friends at disability in. So sorry. It's okay. Maybe somebody will be doing a fun fact about you. Maybe. God knows what they'll say. Depends how well they know me. True. True. Well, that is wonderful. Superhero though. Yeah. Titans. Yeah. Titans. Marvel.

20:44 Do you know this? It's Yeah. So DC or DC? I'm sorry. Oh god. There's going to be people who are hating me for that. Marvel. Oh god. DC. So I don't watch a lot of superhero shows or movies. So, this was new news for me. I think it's really cool, especially because, you know, we need more representation of everybody on screen and camera and of course, um, people with disabilities are even lowerly, excuse me, lower representation than even us LGBTQ plus people. So, right, I don't have a disability, but do you remember my superpower that I shared with you the other day? Oh, was this on or off air? Off air when we were talking about percentages of the world population. Oh, god. Yes. No, I do. Um, okay, Tina, you have to hear this one. Listener, this is fascinating. Tell us, tell us

21:29 your I have super, what is it? Super numerary kidneys. There you go. Are they good at math? They are really great at filtering blood because I have three of them. Really? Yes. So, you've got a kidney to spare. I have a kidney to spare. You hear that, listener? If you are in need of a kidney, listen. not what is happening here. I am not having unnecessary surgery unless you are a loved one. U but yeah, so three kidneys and then three urers and then you know your your bladder ends up with like a strange shape but I have three kidneys. Okay. Okay. See, I thought your superpower was dating. Superpower is not dating. Clearly, I'm very picky. I'm very picky. As you should be. As you should be.

22:16 I've had to pass my phone to my friends now to just be my virtual wingman. Wing person. Yeah, I feel that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so I've only made matches with their assistance. Okay, that's good. That's that's a good buddy to have. Yeah. Have they Have they struck gold for you yet? I don't know. I don't know. I got a couple matches that are in there pending that I haven't reached out to, but I did go on a date. Well, it was a I had drinks with someone new. I don't know that it was necessarily a date, but it was scheduled. But you met them on a dating app. So, it's a date until you get there, isn't it? Just wasn't a second date is what I'm guessing. I don't know yet. Okay. No, it was wonderful. We had a really great time. Um, she was lovely and exactly like her profile suggested. So,

23:03 that was really refreshing. Yeah, we had a really wonderful time. Some deep conversation. Okay. Yeah. Over at BD's, you know, supporting a a chamber member. Yeah. You know, we had plans to go to the game and then the game got cancelled and then I was like, "Oh no, now what? Now I'm going to actually have to like look at this person and talk to and engage, but it was really lovely. It was wonderful." Yeah, it was great. And yeah, no, we'll see what happens. It's good to have a date where you actually speak. I never understood the whole date where it's like, "Let's go see a movie. Let's go sit in the dark and not talk to each other for two hours and let me just hear you chew." I mean, for me, that would be a really great red flag if I'm like, "This is not going to work." Thank you. know after movie drinks cuz if you sound like you're chewing cud that misophonia kicks in for me and I'm just like I'm out.

23:50 Sorry. I have a good friend of mine. He uh I don't know how he can't hear it but he Yeah, he chews very loudly. I just now I just reach over and pop him in the mouth and he just knows. I have met people who can eat soup loud and I'm like what are you chewing over there? It's soup. Like it's liquid. It's not even the slurping. It's section of ASMR brought to you by Campbell. God. Anyway, yes, my dating life is um it's steady. Do you have another date on the books? No. With anyone? No. No. Okay. No. Defin no. Definitely not. I can't wait to hear the ones that they've passed that they pass up. Wait, what? Oh, about the ones that I pass up. That is a whole That is a whole bit. And me and my friends at the bar, we go through my dating app.

24:36 And oh my god, we are in stitches with some of the commentary that I give to these poor women. If they only knew. I'm like, first of all, if you have four people in your like starter photo, oh, that's a no from me. A friend of mine had my picture in his profile. I'm like, what are you doing? Maybe further down the line it's like, oh, I hang out with people. I have friends. I'm not a weirdo. But um or if your dog is your first like, no, get out of here. What are you doing? This is a dating app. I'm not here to pet sit that and then like I don't like the ones the profiles that are like like you can't be this, you can't be that, you can't be this. It's like okay that's a that's a no for me. You start out by saying you're picky. Maybe they're just I'm picky, but maybe be a little more pro and less anti.

25:21 True. Or maybe they've been on there a little longer and they're like, I'm done dealing with this. I'm just going to say it up front. It is it is funny like to me how so many women because it's a lesbian dating app, right? Yes. And well, it's not like exclusive to lesbians, but it's queer dating app geared towards uh folks who identify as women. And it is so funny when they put on there like no couples, no men, like an all bold, but every now and then a a man will sneak in there and it's like William has sent you a like. And I'm like, William, you are on the wrong app, my friend. Goodbye. It's hard enough for like a straight guy at a bar. Like I did always kind of feel for like that whole heteronormative where it's the guy that has to go up and ask the girl out. Like that takes some and they get shot down a lot. And

26:09 then to go to a a lesbian ccentric dating site, they're really going to get shot down a lot. I am a great wingman. I am like I have sent my friends over to a man. Yes. I'm like go talk to him because he's not he does not have the coonas to talk to you. Yes. So, get gone. Yes, get gone. And I'll be over here waving and giving you the middle finger because that's my signature thing to do. Oh my gosh. Well, even if dating life is not great, Chamber Life is fabulous. Run us through a couple of membership highlights that we need to know about. Okay. Poor Colton. I hope he's feeling better. Um, I'm going to do my best impression. Well, we have on July 9th a health and wellness committee meeting. uh email Colton if you would like to

26:55 join the meeting. You can also register through our events page on the website. On July 16th, we will be welcoming Austin Emergency Centers with a rainbow ribbon cutting. That is at 4:30 on July 16th. It's a Wednesday, so come meet the new team and hang out with us. And if you cut your finger during the rainbow ribbon cutting, they can fix it. I'm surprised it has not happened in the history of the chamber. Those are very sharp scissors. On July 24th, we have Is it the 24th? Yes. Yeah. A monthly happy hour, we're going to be at Drinks Lounge over on the east side. They are a new member to us uh start at the gala around the gala time they join. So, we're finally going to get over there um and hang out. They have a vinyl shop on the inside of the

27:41 bar. So, bring your wallet, buy some records, have some drinks with us, and we'll see you there. Let's see. And then always we have our get to know the chamber a monthly thing on July 30th. Also, if you are currently a member and you need help with your portal or understanding your perks, reach out to me and I'll get you on the calendar for next month there. And then we have the big ones. We have our business opportunity summit with our DECA alliance. So that is going to be on August 1st. Same place, a little bit different time. It is a free event. So come hang out. but we will feed you. But we've got a lot of great topics teed up and breakout sessions. So we will see you on August 1st at PDC and then also registration is still open for our inner

28:29 city trip to Seattle also with DECA. So that's all I got. Very very cool. Okay, I have to announce the event that I am very much looking forward to and gearing up for. Sunday, September the 1st is our Pride in Local Music. We are thrilled that one of our core sponsors, ACL live, is hosting us at their 310 um stadium. Is that what you call it? Stage. Sorry. Thank you. Stage. Um so it's going to be an awesome event. Sunday funday. It is free y'all. Free. Free. Anyone is welcome. Best word in the English language. Free and liberation. Open bar. Well, it's not open bar. Amy, it's not it's not open, but it's a good word. I mean, that can be a great word. A collection of words. I thought we were talking about best words in the English

29:15 language. I'm so sorry. However, we do have VIP tickets where you do get one free drink. Um, and also that contributes to a donation uh for education fund and gives you a tour. ACL live does these amazing tours around their building and it's full of um history and education about the venue and the history of ACL live. So, Pride and Local Music, we are looking for everybody to come and have fun. And then also, of course, any corporate sponsors out there that want to participate because the proceeds of the event do help support our nonprofit that does amazing work to improve economic accessibility in the Central Texas region. Well said. Thank you. I'm excited for PIL this year. Um, yeah. Yeah, definitely not open bar, but get a

30:01 VIP ticket because it'll be worth it. Um, yeah, we're working diligently with Julie Nolan to get our lineup going, so I'm excited for it. Yeah, always a good time. It'll be a Sunday funday. Be a great time to come out. Yep. Yes. Come support local artists. They need your help. Uh, members, what do you got for new members that we can celebrate today? We do have new members. Um, welcome to the chamber, Dane Cannon. You must be kid somewhere. A great name starters. Great name. He is a commercial lender with Frost Bank. Also, welcome to the chamber RBFCU. All the banking stuff is happening today. Welcome Remedy Roofing. Wonderful meeting you at the lunchon last week and Double Trouble little restaurant, coffee shop, tacos. Yeah. So, welcome, welcome,

30:47 welcome. We're excited to have you. I can't wait to come visit. Yes. RBSU was so cute. They stopped by the office the other day to finish their signing up for their membership and I commandeered her to go with us to we had a rainbow ribbon cutting that that same hour. Yep. And I was like, "What are you doing in the next like 30 minutes?" She like, "Well, I don't know. What am I doing? What is that I signed up for?" Yeah. Took her down to a fertility clinic. That's what you do with somebody when you just meet them. Let's go to a fertility clinic. Yeah. It was really cute, too. Uh if Yeah. These rainbow ribbon cutings are a lot of fun. So, if you're not like checking them out, um please make time for the one that we have up and coming. Yeah. And if you want one, if you haven't had a rainbow ribbon cutting, That's right. Well, just reach out. Yeah. I mean, we've we've done it for wellestablished businesses. I mean, we did one uh what last month at the the

31:33 Paramount Theater that's been here for pretty much as long as Austin has. Yeah. And like a chamber member for years. Sometimes you just got to get it on the books. Get it on the books. Make sure that you are recognized and we scream and shout your your name from all the social media rooftops and people know that you are a welcoming place to do business with or to work for. But definitely. Well, as always, we completely thank you for uh joining us. If you want to learn more about becoming a chamber member or chamber events, visit us at www. austinlgbtchamber.com. If you want to be a guest or a sponsor, email us at info@ austinlgbtchamber. You can listen to our podcast every Tuesday wherever you get your pods. And remember, follow us. Thanks. We'll talk to you next week.

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