Georgetown

And I went to a couple different things with him.

And then I just decided, with the company I work for, we're an IT company, it's headquartered out of Georgetown, Texas.

That's where the owner lives.

But he has given me the freedom, and he said, Get a part of the chamber.

Ellen Langley and Brooks and Dunn are going to play the two-step inns It's April 17th and 18th.

This is an outdoor festival in Georgetown, Texas.

And they've got a bunch of other Texas bands.

And Stella Lefty got a booking there.

Now we want to say hello to our terrific teachers and classrooms, Mrs. Matico and Abe the Cat at Takei Learning Academy in Bowie, Maryland.

Mrs. Voller's Mustangs at Joanne Ford in Georgetown, Texas.

Mrs. Melanie and her Wildcats at Hillsboro in Hillsboro, Kentucky.

And Mrs. Nash and her gifted Mavericks at Madison Crossing in Canton, Mississippi.

Hello and welcome to Lone Star Silver Screen, a podcast about everything that exists at the intersection of Texas and the movies.

I'm your host, Austin Zook, and today I'm joined by Ray Perez from the GTX Film Festival that takes place each year in Georgetown, Texas.

Ray, how are you doing today? I'm doing fantastic, Austin.

Thank you.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I am the president of GTX Film.

We are a nonprofit 501c3 based here in Georgetown, Texas.

And yeah, I mean, along with our GTX Film staff, we put on, in my opinion, a pretty good film festival here in Georgetown, Texas.

This is open to anywhere in the country, man.

It's in Austin, Texas, right outside of Austin in Georgetown, Texas, where we're going to host.

2027, March 22nd, 22nd, 23rd, 24th.

The largest live fire collab that we have.

He's also going to help out on the engine track on ours, on our side.

I've got Logan Hinker with Rural Fire Taxis coming in doing a full truck operations class.

Georgetown's fire facility is second to none, man.

It's absolutely, truly badass.

Very exciting.

And then August 15th, I will be in Georgetown, Texas, which is just north of Austin, at Larkin Owl with Jillian Eliza West to be in conversation with her for her book tour.

I'll be at the Belmont Book Fest in North Carolina.

That is in mid-September.

And there weren't a lot of cheaper options close to downtown, close to the jobs.

And so people came and they moved to Austin, but they actually moved to Leander or Georgetown or Kyle or somewhere far away, not necessarily where they wanted to be, because just the cost of housing within the city itself got just too much.

And so, um, part of what this happened everywhere where families just kind of left cities and droves.

And part of this was the school closures.

Drayden Dickman, this guy's name is.

He's a redshirt junior from Georgetown, Texas.

And, yeah, pretty sure he's a track guy.

Yeah.