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Sean Murray: About this, the new
magazine?

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Okay.

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Johny Fernandez: So let's I
mean, obviously, it's funny

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because I think the title itself
is great. It's like when the

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music stops how the pandemic
threatened the history and

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culture of Austin, Texas. But I
think what's interesting is how

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it affected all of us like, no,
but specifically is but I think.

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Yeah. This can be taken, put
anywhere, and. Yeah. But yeah,

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let's talk about the magazine. I
mean, the new article.

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Sean Murray: So that's the
future story. It's about how

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the, how the pandemic threatened
the history and culture of

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Austin, Texas, right. So I think
too often we're thinking about

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how does it affect a restaurant?
How does it affect a baseball

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team, right. But we don't really
think about a culture being lost

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as a result of a pandemic.
Austin is pretty much known for

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its music history. Now, I'm not
the author of this particular

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story, right. But the music
culture is very big in Austin.

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And a lot of people are involved
in that industry, because they

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have a passion for music. So if
you run a music hall in Austin,

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it doesn't mean that you make a
ton of money doing it, you're

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doing it because you love music.
And it's part of the culture,

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it's part of your you know, it's
your passion. And you have bands

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that share that same passion.
And so when a pandemic comes,

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and you can't pay your rent, you
can't pay a mortgage, and you

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can't host any events. It's
devastating. Yeah. Because they

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probably did not have a ton of
cash set aside for this type of

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event. And in terms of being
able to recover, we were talking

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about earlier, like, a few
months, goodbye, and you owe

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money to your landlord, and
you're like trying to make out a

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workout deal, right? In certain
parts of the country, people

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might look at the business that
you had, and think that place

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could be better used as
something else. Now that you

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haven't paid me for a few
months, now that you're

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struggling, you know, I'd rather
turn this venue that you have

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into an apartment complex, or an
office building. Yeah. And they

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don't really want to do any
workouts, right, it's more

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profitable to actually let the
business die. And so you have

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this whole situation in Austin,
Texas, where you have all these

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music halls, essentially on the
verge of going out of business,

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or in the case of one that we
actually started off, like the

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story starts off talking about a
place called Thread Gills, the

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staple of the Austin community.
And it starts off talking about

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how the place is in dire, dire
straits. Right. And it's

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heartbreaking to read about, and
there's several others that we

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that we talk about in the story.
But the writers name is Paul

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Sweeney, he told me like you got
to publish the story online now.

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And I'm like, we really wanted
to wait for it to go in print,

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before we just share it out.
Yeah. Out there on the internet

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and he's like the problem is
he's like the circumstances of

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some of the businesses is going
to change dramatically. By the

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time you put it out there in
print. I'm like, in like a, two

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weeks or a month, and he's like,
yeah, very possibly. So when we

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put out this story online, that
main venue, Thread Gills

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actually went out of business
completely to the point where

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two weeks ago, they held their
very last concert. And not only

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is there new ownership, but
they're doing exactly what I

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said could happen before the new
owners is what I read. So the

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new owners plan to bulldoze the
building, and turn it into

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apartments. And so you have this
historic place in Austin part of

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the music culture of the city.
That's because of the pandemic

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is literally going to get not
just new ownership. And you

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know, it's like, oh, it's
different now. Right, literally

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gonna get bulldozed and turn
into apartments and that will

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never come back. And so that's
one that's, that's why we focus

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on why Austin, Texas. That's
kind of the whole point is that

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we're not just losing a business
here and there like, oh, well,

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new capitalism and new business
will come in and you know,

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everything will be fine. The
problem is that we could lose

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entire parts of American culture
too.