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Hello and welcome back to the Americano show where we talk about power, politics and prejudices in American life.

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Today we are going to be talking about how Texas ate Hollywood.

And that might sound a bit mysterious to some viewers and listeners.

But here to explain it to me is Ben Dominic, our editor at large, because inside our new edition of The Spectator, the monthly edition, the August edition, which is this beautiful cover

that has just gone to press. That's why we don't have the real version of it. Ben has a terrific

piece explaining how Hollywood is being taken over, principally, it seems, by Texas. Ben, explain what your piece is about.

Sure. So what I think people have been aware of for the last couple of decades is that within

both the international filmmaking sphere and within the American competing state environments, there have been a number of different

shifts in policy that have led to Hollywood essentially making a ton of content that is

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