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On this week's episode: the $720 million-dollar Austin mobility bond, local races, early voting, Jill Stein on Info Wars and "rigged" elections.

Hear a recap of Green Party candidate Jill Stein's visit to Huston-Tillotson University. And a new study by a UT professor says that harnessing the power of social media seems to be a more effective way of mobilizing voters than traditional on-the-ground methods.

The Longhorns will travel to Manhattan, Kansas to face the Kansas State Wildcats on Saturday. A much-needed victory over Iowa State last week restored some hope for Texas fans. But the Longhorns haven't won in Manhattan since 2002. Later in the show, Sydney Rubin looks ahead to the start of the women's basketball season.

Frank Ocean intentionally missed the deadline to be nominated for a Grammy, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and Drake's "One Dance" became the all-time most streamed song on Spotify. Listen to a review of The Dillinger Escape Plan's Dissociation. And later in the show, a discussion on if an artist's personal choices should influence whether or not you listen to their music.

Former Texas Senator Wendy Davis sits down to talk about Deeds Not Words, a group founded by Davis to advocate for women's equality. Davis, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 2014, also talks about the collective power of people in influencing politics and how college students can affect the upcoming election.

A roundup of the week's Science & Technology headlines. The UT microfarm hosted a workshop on vermicomposting, the department of molecular biosciences is getting a new high-resolution microscope and a nutrition student lays out the do's and don'ts of probiotics.

15 million voters were registered in Texas, the price of transcripts doubled from $10 to $20, sparking outcry and a petition and a UT golf course was put on a list of endangered lands. Hear a review of the Theatre and Dance department’s production of In the Red and Brown Water, a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney. The fifth annual HackTX competition is coming up, and 600 students tried to register in...

After a 45-40 loss to OU, the Longhorns are now 2-3. It looks like Charlie Strong is doing everything he can for a team that can't get it together. The Texas Longhorns will face the Iowa State Cyclones this Saturday.

French Montana delays the release of his album MC4 over sample clearance issues, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien says the band will probably never release their sessions at Third Man Records, and Chance the Rapper took out a full-page ad vying for a Grammy nomination. Tune in for a review of Norah Jones' new album, Day Breaks. Learn about vaporwave, a truly 21st-century genre.

Paleontologists at the Jackson School of Geosciences are looking into field work the Works Progress Administration conducted in the 1930s, digging up the bones of dinosaurs that roamed Texas over 200 million years ago.

The Longhorns will meet the Sooners in Dallas for the yearly Red River Showdown. Charlie Strong is on the hot seat after demoting Vance Bedford from defensive coordinator.

Weekend one of ACL is over, the Gorillaz are ramping up their social media presence to promote what looks like a new album and SZA tweeted that she's quitting Top Dawg Entertainment (but has since deleted the tweet). Chris and Sean review Danny Brown's new album, Atrocity Exhibition.

Integrative biology graduate student Anne Chambers is trying to determine whether milk snakes are a real species or not.

The first presidential debate was held Monday night. UT's Student Government held its own debate Wednesday, moderated by The Daily Texan. Student representatives defended Trump, Clinton, Jill Stein and Gary Johnson.

Hear a recap of the Student Government General Election debate where representatives defended the Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian presidential candidates. And with favorability ratings at record lows, some students are looking past Trump and Clinton to third-party candidates.

The Longhorns will face the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Stillwater, OK.

GLOSS calls it quits, Bon Iver takes a jab at Beyoncé for her deal with Pepsi and the White House is hosting South By South Lawn. Tune in for a review of Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam's album I Had a Dream That You Were Mine. Our hosts have some tips before you head out for the first weekend ACL.

Student Government is hosting a debate Wednesday between the College Republicans, University Democrats, the International Socialist Organization and Youth for Johnson/Weld.

This month, astronomer Christopher Kochanek and his team from Ohio State University observed what may have been the birth of a black hole.

Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith had a one-on-one conversation with Ted Cruz, one day after Cruz endorsed Donald Trump.

Student Government has plans to partner with a ride-hailing service to get students home safe, a few lucky students have Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey as a professor, and a visiting Columbia scholar holds a discussion on her particular field of narrative medicine.

Texan Overtime: September 23, 2016 by The Daily Texan

Skepta wins the Mercury Prize over David Bowie and Radiohead, Kaytranada's 99.9% takes the Polaris Prize, and Kanye West stops in Austin tonight for his Saint Pablo Tour. Tune in for a review of Mac Miller's new album, The Divine Feminine.

Earlier this year, UT astronomer Michael Endl helped discover Proxima B, which could be the nearest habitable planet to Earth.

This presidential election is challenging conventional approaches to media coverage of presidential candidates.