Slate Money - Slate Money Travel: Maybe We Should Walk
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🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Slate Money Travel, Felix Salmon speaks with Craig Mod about why he loves to walk on vacation. Check out Craig Mod’s latest book, “Things Become Other Things”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Hello. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Slate Money Travel. |
| 0:17.0 | I am Felixamin of Axios and you are. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Craig Mod. Thank you. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello. |
| 0:22.0 | You are Craig Mod. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello Craig Mod. You are an international manner of mystery, but |
| 0:29.0 | introduce yourself. |
| 0:31.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, I feel like there's no mystery at all. Everything is out there. It's all out there. It's embarrassingly out there. |
| 0:38.0 | You're online, your in books, you're everywhere that anything can be found. |
| 0:44.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:45.0 | You're on the trail, you're on the street. |
| 0:46.6 | Exactly. |
| 0:47.6 | Well, you know, I try to, I always try to explain myself to people I meet |
| 0:51.3 | and not have it be complicated. And it's impossible not to have it be complicated so it all depends on who I'm talking to. |
| 0:56.0 | So I could be a guy who sometimes writes for the New York Times if I want to like you know place myself in the context of a known thing for someone but |
| 1:05.0 | mainly what I do is I just I write books and I go on long walks that's kind of the |
| 1:08.9 | crux of it tell me about the new book the new new book is called Things Become Other Things. |
| 1:14.0 | Actually the the structure of the publishing is really unique. I'm doing my own |
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