What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - American Life is a Highway
Slate Daily Feed
Slate
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
America is caught in a vicious cycle of trying to alleviate traffic by expanding and building more highways, only for them to clog right up with more cars. How do you beat the traffic?
Guest: David Zipper, Senior Fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative who writes about transportation policy.
Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen.
Public.com+Public Investing: All investing involves risk. Brokerage services for US listed securities, options and bonds in a self-directed brokerage account are offered by Public Investing, member FINRA & SIPC. Not investment advice. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank.Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1828849), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. . See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | So what's it like to buy your first cryptocurrency on Krakin? |
| 0:05.0 | Well let's say I'm at a food truck I've never tried before. |
| 0:08.0 | Am I going to go all in on the loaded taco? |
| 0:10.0 | No, Suri. I'm keeping it simple. Starting small. That's trading on Krakhan. |
| 0:15.3 | Pick from over 190 assets and start with a 10 quid in your pocket. |
| 0:19.7 | Easy. Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be. |
| 0:23.2 | Don't invest unless you're prepared to use all the money you invest. |
| 0:26.2 | This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. |
| 0:31.4 | George is He was worried about running out of power on the motorway. |
| 0:42.5 | But now he has Admiral Car Insurance, |
| 0:44.9 | which can come with out-of-charge EV recovery |
| 0:47.8 | should the worst. |
| 0:49.3 | See what you did there. |
| 0:50.5 | And back at full power. get quality car insurance from Admiral |
| 0:54.3 | that can also cover your EV. Admiral insurance always looking out for you. |
| 0:58.6 | Tease and see supply check Admiral.com For details. If you were to go due west from downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, you'd find yourself |
| 1:11.4 | in a neighborhood called Allendale. |
| 1:14.2 | Allendale is a historically black community adjacent to downtown in Shreveport, Louisiana. |
| 1:21.4 | And it has had this sort of like dark cloud hovering over this neighborhood for decades now. |
| 1:33.0 | That's David Z zipper who writes about transportation policy. |
| 1:36.0 | And the metaphorical dark cloud is a proposed extension of highway I-49, |
| 1:42.0 | which runs north-south through the state. would smash through Allendale and destroy a big part of the community |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.