meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Longform

Episode 83, Part 2: Lawrence Wright, Live from Austin

Longform

Longform

Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower and Going Clear, is a staff writer for The New Yorker. "If I had the chance to interview Osama Bin Laden, should I kill him? It’s a fair question. Suppose we’re having dinner — should I stab him with the bread knife? Do I have a moral obligation to kill him? Or do I have a moral obligation as a reporter to simply hear him? … It’s sometimes difficult to take away the judgements that you naturally have. But when you do that, when you strip yourself and you’re morally naked, it’s sometimes surprising how infectious the relationship can become." Thanks to TinyLetter and Pillpack.com for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: lawrencewright.com @lawrence_wright Wright on Longform [6:00] Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Knopf • Jan 2013) [6:00] The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf • Aug 2006) [7:45] The Siege (Twentieth Century Fox • 1998) [14:45] "The Apostate" (The New Yorker • Feb 2011) [30:15] My Trip to Al-Qaeda (Jigsaw Productions • Apr 2010) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Support for this episode comes from Zell.

0:03.2

You'd never fall for an online scam, right?

0:07.0

You use two-factor authentication, ignore calls from everyone named spam risk, and never used the password.

0:15.0

Password.

0:17.0

But, scammers are getting more sophisticated and more active,

0:21.0

which means they're finding millions of new victims every single year.

0:26.2

The good news is that there's a lot you can do to protect yourself on the wild, wild web.

0:31.8

For starters, Zell wants to remind you, only send money to people you know and

0:36.7

trust.

0:37.7

Zell is available to United States bank account holders only.

0:40.9

Terms and conditions apply.

0:48.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan. Cripto is like the financial system but different.

0:52.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your

0:54.9

credit school or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:58.7

crypto is finance for everyone, everywhere all the time.

1:03.8

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

1:06.8

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

1:09.8

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

1:14.0

Hey, Darren Lamer here with Part 2 of our South by Southwest Extravagansa.

1:26.4

In Part 1, I hope you enjoyed Pam Koloff and Mimi Schwartz, thanks to them.

1:30.6

Here in Part 2, I talked to Lawrence Wright.

1:33.0

The sound quality is not great, but I think it's worth it because it was a great interview.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Longform, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Longform and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.