Slate Money - The God Save Texas Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Slate Money talks Texas; tech and entrepreneurship, affordable housing and zoning, and the long history of oil in the state with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Lawrence Wright.
In the Slate Plus segment, Lawrence Wright’s Mathew McConaughey story.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck, @lawrence_wright
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the God Save Texas edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm joined as ever by Anna Shemansky. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello, Anna. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm joined as ever by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello. |
| 0:33.6 | And quite amazingly and awesomely, I am joined by Lawrence Wright, the famed author of... |
| 0:41.3 | You have written how many books? |
| 0:43.3 | Eleven. |
| 0:43.8 | Eleven books of which you are still being hunted down by Scientologists. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, well, if you Google my name, you'll see attack ads. |
| 0:53.0 | And occasionally they assign a private investigator apparently to call people that I used to know. |
| 0:58.2 | You wrote the definitive book on Scientology. |
| 1:01.4 | You wrote the definitive book, and a wonderful book called The Looming Tower about al-Qaeda and basically how 9-11 happened. |
| 1:09.3 | And you are a staff writer for the new yorker yes and um |
| 1:13.8 | the author of your new book is called god save texas god save texas it's a rollicking rolling |
| 1:21.0 | what would you how you describe this book it's just a it's a series of stories really yeah it's it's personal |
| 1:29.4 | history it is history it is a travel log and it is a prayer and embodied in the title god save |
| 1:37.9 | texas i am here in texas in austin at the kut studios with larry we are, we have a jam-packed show. We are going to talk |
| 1:47.9 | about oil, of course, because this is Texas. We are going to talk about the tech boom in Austin. |
| 1:53.8 | We are going to talk about zoning laws in Houston. We are going to talk about climate change. |
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