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Welcome to Amped Up. This is your host Ryan Knight and our guest today is

Savion. Savion is an educator, a

performer, a social activist, and an elected

SD5 Democratic Committee person in Texas.

Savion, welcome to Amped Up.

I'm glad to be here. Thank you for having me Ryan. Just so everyone knows,

Savion is coming to us today from Austin that is in the grip of a deadly winter storm and

dealing with rolling power outages. of a

grip of a deadly winter storm and dealing with rolling power outages. So I just want to start off the show by asking you,

you know, how are you doing and what it has been like for the past three days

for you and your family and your community.

Yeah, it's been very interesting to say the least.

That's, that's, and that's me being nice.

I have been, I would say overtly frustrated at the most most of the time just because this could have easily been avoided. That's that's the thing that frustrates me the most.

But when it comes to my neighbors,

fortunately a lot of them, even,

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