The God Save Texas Edition

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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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 Production by Max Jacobs. Listen to Slate Money via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. This episode is brought to you by ZipRecruiter. Get started today at ziprecruiter.com/money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the God save Texas edition of Slate Money, your guide to the
0:19.2	business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix salmon of Axios. I'm joined as ever by Anna Schimmansky.
0:26.1	Hello.
0:27.1	Hello Anna I'm joined as ever by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.
0:31.3	Hello. And quite amazingly and awesomely I am joined by
0:37.6	Lawrence Wright the famed author of you have written how many books?
0:42.4	11. 11 books of which you are still being
0:46.8	hunted down by Scientologist yeah well if you Google my name you'll see attack ads and occasionally they assigned a private investigator apparently to call people that I used to know
0:57.8	You wrote you wrote the definitive book on scienceology you wrote the definitive book and a wonderful book called
1:03.9	the looming tower about al-Qaeda and basically how 9-11 happened and and
1:09.4	many more and you are a stuff rated for the New Yorker yes and the author of New Yorker? Yes.
1:13.0	And the author of your new book is called?
1:16.4	God save Texas.
1:17.7	God save Texas.
1:18.8	It's a rollicking, rolling. What would you, how would you describe this book?
1:24.7	It's just a series of stories really.
1:27.7	Yeah, it's personal history, it is history,
1:31.0	it is a travel log, and it is a prayer and embodied in the title.
1:37.0	God save Texas. I am here in Texas in Austin at the K-U-T studios with Larry.
1:44.2	We are going, we have a jam-packed show.
1:47.3	We are going to talk about oil, of course,
1:49.3	because this is Texas.
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