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BoomATX episode #33 features Boom ATX’s Lee and Glenn sitting down with The Moody Center’s Oak View Group Senior Vice President Jeff Nickler to chat about how the venue came together and the world class venue’s historic 1st year.  Give the episode a listen to hear all the details including:

• NBA’s Spurs and CMT Awards coming to Austin in ‘23.
• How competitive Austin is for the largest touring acts.
• How Oak View Group has been so successful in selling the Mood and the Live Music Capital of the World.
• What economic impact the venue has had on Austin’s economy.
•  The ticket holder confusion of having multiple Moody venues in town. 
• What’s to still come.
• Much, much more.

Check out this podcast today to hear all about the Erwin Center’s new little brother, The Mood!

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On this episode of BoomATX, Glenn and Lee sit down with former Senator and Austin Mayor Kirk Watson once again to hear his plans if re-elected Mayor of Austin in the upcoming Run-Off election.

 Give this episode a listen to hear Kirk Watson address the most critical issues Austin is facing including: 

• Housing
• Affordability
• Public Safety
• Homelessness
• Transportation

Check it out and if live in Austin make plans to Vote in the run-off election starting December 1st with election day December 13th. 

For more from Sen. Watson be sure and check out previous BoomATX episode #17.

BoomATX - Interesting Austinites Doing Interesting Things!

On this extra special episode of BoomATX, recorded in front of a live studio audience, Lee and Glenn chat with 3 expert guests about the current economy and housing market in Austin.  Broken up into 3 podcasts, check out informative and entertaining segments with: 

1. Mark Sprague, State Director of Information Capital for Independence Title, provides a great status update of the local Austin economy and recent trends in different market sector and a look at what the future might hold.
2. Cord Shiflet, ABoR President & Realtor with Moreland Properties, provides what he is currently seeing in the local residential housing market including the luxury submarket.
3. Brad Stein, President with Intracorp Texas, discusses the downtown Austin urban housing market and trends for the area’s high rise development.

Special thanks to Floor & Décor for being BoomATX’s first episode sponsor helping provide refreshments for our great studio audience. Hopefully the fun we all had comes thru in the recording, if you weren’t there…. you missed it.

BoomATX - Interesting Austinites Doing Interesting Things!

On this extra special episode of BoomATX, recorded in front of a live studio audience, Lee and Glenn chat with 3 expert guests about the current economy and housing market in Austin.  Broken up into 3 podcasts, check out informative and entertaining segments with: 

1. Mark Sprague, State Director of Information Capital for Independence Title, provides a great status update of the local Austin economy and recent trends in different market sector and a look at what the future might hold.
2. Cord Shiflet, ABoR President & Realtor with Moreland Properties, provides what he is currently seeing in the local residential housing market including the luxury submarket.
3. Brad Stein, President with Intracorp Texas, discusses the downtown Austin urban housing market and trends for the area’s high rise development.

Special thanks to Floor & Décor for being BoomATX’s first episode sponsor helping provide refreshments for our great studio audience. Hopefully the fun we all had comes thru in the recording, if you weren’t there…. you missed it.

BoomATX - Interesting Austinites Doing Interesting Things!

On this extra special episode of BoomATX, recorded in front of a live studio audience, Lee and Glenn chat with 3 expert guests about the current economy and housing market in Austin.  Broken up into 3 podcasts, check out informative and entertaining segments with: 

1. Mark Sprague, State Director of Information Capital for Independence Title, provides a great status update of the local Austin economy and recent trends in different market sector and a look at what the future might hold.
2. Cord Shiflet, ABoR President & Realtor with Moreland Properties, provides what he is currently seeing in the local residential housing market including the luxury submarket.
3. Brad Stein, President with Intracorp Texas, discusses the downtown Austin urban housing market and trends for the area’s high rise development.

Special thanks to Floor & Décor for being BoomATX’s first episode sponsor helping provide refreshments for our great studio audience. Hopefully the fun we all had comes thru in the recording, if you weren’t there…. you missed it.

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Listen to Episode #27 of Boom ATX to hear Lee and Glenn chat with Austin Mayoral Candidate Gary Spellman.  Gary is running as a Mayor that will unite both sides of the isle; not Red, not Blue but Vote Purple!  Listen to hear Gary explain why he is running, how he plans to make Austin a better place to live, how be became longtime friends with John Paul Dejoria, his passion for motorcycles, thoughts on current City Council and Mayor and much more.

 Gary is a straight shooter and he definitely shot it straight on this Boom episode but we’ll have to wait till November 8th election to see if Austin is ready to vote Purple?

BoomATX - Interesting Austinites Doing Interesting Things!

Join Lee and Glenn for this special Texas BBQ episode featuring  Aaron Franklin of Franklin’s BBQ fame along with Ivan Vires with BBQ Social a Youtube BBQ channel creator. You won’t want to miss this mouth watering episode to hear from the man himself how Aaron went from a BBQ trailer along I35 to the top BBQ restaurant in the country in just couple years.  Even with selling out of BBQ during lunch every day he is open there have been challenges along the way including the restaurant burning down from hurricane winds in Central Texas!  After a wildly successful BBQ restaurant, an amazingly well-crafted line of BBQ smokers and a couple of Loro Asian smokehouses, hear what’s next for Franklin, hint… it’s not far from his current BBQ home.

 Listen closely to this smokin hot episode to see when we are planning to eat at Franklin’s to celebrate Ivan’s 100th trip thru the longest BBQ line around!  Come and join us!

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Episode #28 features Boom ATX’s Lee and Glenn chatting with GSD&M advertising agency co-founder Roy Spence.  Not only has Roy helped create memorable ad campaigns for world class companies such as Chili’s, SouthWest Airlines, Wal-Mart and the State of Texas’ “Don’t Mess with Texas” but he is now focusing on using marketing for good thru his Make It Movement to help show young students there is an alternative to a 4 year university degree. As Roy explains it, he is Pro-University but there are tons of high skill, high income careers available to students soon after graduation with much less investment and training required and he is on a mission to help them make lots of money and discover their purpose. 

Listen for great stories of one of the great Austin success stories from the man that tells stories better than anyone – Roy Spence; the man, the myth, the legend!

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On this episode of BoomATX, Glenn and Lee chat with Austin Unicorns and Residential Realtors Austin Archuleta and Tyler Shelton and how they have utilized their wildly successful @austintexasthings Instagram account and user data to build an Austin real estate powerhouse unlike anyone else in town, through social media.

Their Smart Austin Realty residential realtor group is harnessing the power of social media and technology to gain clients and grow their footprint in the ATX that have to make the big boys a little jealous. 

Give this episode a listen to see if any new ideas to market your business might be discovered and if looking to buy or sell a house, give them a call and tell them Glenn and Lee sent you!

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Join Lee and Glenn as they Keep Calm and Boom On!  You won’t want to miss this chat with co-founder of The Chive and Atmosphere TV, friend of Bill Murray and brother of Leo, John Resig.  Hear how the brothers founded Chive.com in Silicone Beach , CA, creating the wildly t-shirt business coining the phrase and selling Keep Calm and Chive On t-shirts, moving to Austin almost 10 years ago setting up shop with one of the wildest office buildings downtown, creating Atmosphere TV to provide short form content to bars and restaurants across the globe and oh so much more!

From John Daly to Bill Murray shenanigans, bourbon interview secrets, office showers sweating beer, a Banksy museum in Austin, and so many other great nuggets it is obvious John is living the dream in Austin, Keeping Calm and Chiving On to the fullest every day!

This episode is such a great reminder that Austin is full of characters and BoomATX is on a mission to interview them all!  

BoomATX - Interesting Austinites Doing Interesting Things!