The National Podcast of Texas
Hosted by Andy Langer, the National Podcast of Texas features weekly interviews with prominent Texas thinkers, leaders, and newsmakers.Podcasts
New From Texas Monthly: America’s Girls
Published: Dec. 6, 2021, 11:03 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds
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#123 Paul Begala Wrote the Book on Defeating Donald Trump
Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 3:34 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 51 seconds
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#122 Dr. Rebecca Fischer: "With Students Returning this Fall, Contact Tracing is Key"
Published: July 23, 2020, 7:04 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 20 seconds
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#121 Dr. Peter J. Hotez on How the Federal Government Failed Texas
Published: July 10, 2020, 1:40 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 26 seconds
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#120 Tavel Bristol-Joseph Wants the Culinary World to Have a Hard Conversation about Racism
Published: June 23, 2020, 7:27 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 18 seconds
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#119 Peniel Joseph on Black Power and the Struggle for America’s Soul
Published: June 10, 2020, 3:25 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 13 seconds
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#118 Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly Yearns for the Days We Argued About Reclining Seats
Published: June 4, 2020, 3:48 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 55 seconds
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#117 Congressman Michael C. Burgess on Balancing Public Health and the Economy
Published: May 29, 2020, 5:18 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 17 seconds
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#116 José Ralat Believes the Taco is Pandemic-Proof
Published: May 22, 2020, 9:39 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 41 seconds
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#115 Dr. Hana El Sahly on Remdesivir and How Little We Still Know About COVID-19 Itself
Published: May 15, 2020, 3:57 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 33 seconds
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#114 Mattress Mack Believes Houston Can Pull Together and Persevere. Again.
Published: May 6, 2020, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 43 seconds
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#113 Yoga With Adriene in the Time of Quarantine
Published: May 1, 2020, 4:07 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 1 second
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#112 Boomtown Host Christian Wallace on a New Reckoning for Texas Oil
Published: April 24, 2020, 5:06 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds
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#111 Dr. Peter J. Hotez on Why a COVID-19 Vaccine Might Not Be Enough
Published: April 15, 2020, 1:41 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds
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#110 Tim Ferriss on Using Quarantine to Methodically Confront Your Fears and Desires
Published: April 9, 2020, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 23 seconds
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#109 Chris Shepherd’s Dream is That There’s Actually Restaurants Left For Workers to Return to
Published: March 27, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 55 seconds
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#108 Dan Rather Believes in the Good Sense of the American People
Published: March 24, 2020, 3:49 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds
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#107 Austin Mayor Steve Adler: Why I Cancelled SXSW
Published: March 10, 2020, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds
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#106 Geneticist Spencer Wells on COVID-19 as “Evolution in Action"
Published: March 9, 2020, 6:56 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 6 seconds
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#105 Fox News Analyst Jehmu Greene On Her Plan to Swing “The Movable Middle” Towards the Left
Published: March 3, 2020, 6:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 21 seconds
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#104 Dr. Daina Ramey Berry on the Courageous and Complex Contributions of Black Women
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 2:17 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 39 seconds
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#103 Kate Murphy on the Lost Art of Listening
Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 56 seconds
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#102 Michael Lind on Class Warfare and Why Populism Can’t Last
Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 14 seconds
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#101 The Real Housewives of Dallas’ Stephanie Hollman and Brandi Redmond on Balancing Mental Health and Reality Television Stardom
Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 5:54 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 27 seconds
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#100 The Defined Dish’s Alex Snodgrass and the Pursuit of a Healthier King Ranch Casserole
Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 4:55 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 55 seconds
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#99 Thor in West Texas? Marvel Comics Phenom Donny Cates on His Plan to Relocate the God of Thunder
Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 5:24 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 23 seconds
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#98 Turk Pipkin: “Christmas is What Holds Families Together Across the Generations”
Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 3:21 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 33 seconds
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#97 Aarón Sánchez: “You Can Judge a Mexican Restaurant On Three Things: Tortillas, Margaritas, Guacamole.”
Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 2:51 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 57 seconds
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#96 MJ Hegar: “Texans Have Very Sensitive BS Meters”
Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 6:24 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 57 seconds
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#95 Texas Traditions’ Lee and Carrlyn Miller on the Tao of the Perfect Cowboy Boot
Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 10:55 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 35 seconds
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#94 Ryan Holiday’s New Book About Achieving Stillness Is Not At All About Meditation
Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 57 seconds
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The West Memphis 3’s Jason Baldwin Fights For The “Hopelessly Innocent” After 18 Years in Prison
Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 7:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 53 seconds
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#92 Austin Mayor Steve Adler On The City’s Polarizing Debate Over Homelessness
Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 5:06 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 45 seconds
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#91 The Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith Celebrates 10 Years of Nonprofit Journalism
Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 5 seconds
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#90 United Tacos Of America’s Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece
Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 13 seconds
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#89 Lara Prescott: “Literature Has Lost None Of Its Power To Change Hearts and Minds.”
Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 3:14 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 8 seconds
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#88 Shawn Colvin: “Since I Was Five Years Old, Music Saved My Life, Over and Over”
Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 40 seconds
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#87 Jackie Sherrill and Bonnie Bishop: Lessons From Football and the Music Business
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 1:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 39 seconds
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#86 Austin Kleon: "Scumbags and Lowlifes Can Create Beautiful Art”
Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 14 seconds
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#85 Kimberly King Parsons: “Maybe We Call What I Do Queer Psychedelic Texas Fiction"
Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 50 seconds
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#84 An Hour With Sen. Ted Cruz On Guns, Civility, Trump and Alex Jones
Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 seconds
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#83 Janice Engel: “For Molly Ivins, Politics Was About Who’s Getting Screwed And Who’s Doing The Screwing”
Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 4:28 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 43 seconds
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#82 Tanya Tucker: “You’re Gonna Love Me Or I’m Gonna Kick Your Ass”
Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 29 seconds
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#81 Katherine Center: “I Don’t Want To Write Depressing Fiction”
Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 3:37 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 15 seconds
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#80 Delbert McClinton: “I’ve Always Been a Fugitive From the Law Of Averages”
Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 4:33 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 50 seconds
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#79 Chandler Baker: “Even With #MeToo, Speaking Out Can Be Risky”
Published: Aug. 5, 2019, 3:57 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 56 seconds
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#78 Russell Gold: “Texas Has Become an Incredible Leader In Renewable Energy.”
Published: July 29, 2019, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 33 seconds
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#77 Meredith Walker: “There’s a New Generation Unafraid to Fight For The Common Good”
Published: July 22, 2019, 3:47 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 26 seconds
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#76 Willie Nelson & Friends: Live From Luck Texas
Published: July 15, 2019, 1:46 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 12 seconds
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#75 Adrianne Palicki: “I Miss the Hell Out Of Friday Night Lights. But You Really Can’t Bring It Back.”
Published: July 8, 2019, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 55 seconds
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#74 Lee Ann Womack: “Huge Country Music Success Didn’t Feed My Soul”
Published: July 1, 2019, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 59 seconds
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#73 Aaron Watson: “I Relate More To Johnny Cash Than to Billy Graham, But They Both Loved Them Some Jesus”
Published: June 24, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 30 seconds
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#72 Royce Brooks: “Our Priority Is Making The Biggest, Best Run At Flipping Control Of The State House”
Published: June 18, 2019, 6:29 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 5 seconds
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#71 Bushwick Bill: “I’m Not Going To Allow People To Love Me For Who I’m Not”
Published: June 10, 2019, 4:04 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds
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#70 S. Craig Watkins: “Millennials Are In Pursuit Of Opportunity And Dignity, Not Wealth And Celebrity”
Published: June 3, 2019, 5:34 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 52 seconds
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#69 Kirk Goldsberry: “In The NBA, Analytics and Aesthetics Aren’t Always Compatible”
Published: May 20, 2019, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 7 seconds
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#68 Aaron Franklin: “There’s Always People In A Three Hour Line Hoping You Fail”
Published: May 13, 2019, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 21 seconds
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#67 Rhett Miller: “I Was Terrified I Wouldn’t Be Creative Without Booze”
Published: May 6, 2019, 1:52 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 9 seconds
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#66 James B. Milliken: “Higher Education Is More Important Now Than It's Ever Been In The History Of The World”
Published: April 29, 2019, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 53 seconds
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#65 Kendra Scott: “If You're Doing What Everybody Else Is Doing, You've Already Failed.”
Published: April 22, 2019, 2:41 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 52 seconds
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#64 Michael K. Young: “I Never Want People To Think I Have All The Answers"
Published: April 15, 2019, 1:54 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 23 seconds
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#63 Brandon Maxwell: “Success or Failure, Sweatpants or Suit, Being Loved is What Matters.”
Published: April 8, 2019, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 55 seconds
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#62 Steve Earle: “Anybody Who Knows Me Knows I Will Never Shut Up”
Published: April 1, 2019, 1:49 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 48 seconds
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#61 Brooklyn Decker: “I Work Hard to Prove That I Deserve to Be At the Table.”
Published: March 25, 2019, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 3 seconds
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#60 John Lee Hancock: “Bonnie and Clyde Were the Kardashians With Guns”
Published: March 19, 2019, 12:49 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 12 seconds
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#59 Wendy Davis: “The Midterms Were a Wake-Up Call For Republican Leaders In Texas”
Published: March 7, 2019, 3:06 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 8 seconds
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#58 Mark Seliger: “Photography is Almost Always About Trust.”
Published: March 4, 2019, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 28 seconds
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#57 Ally Davidson: “Our Competition is Netflix. Our Competition is a Sedentary Lifestyle.”
Published: Feb. 25, 2019, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 4 seconds
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Steve Treviño: “Our Culture Isn’t a Punchline.”
Published: Feb. 18, 2019, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 29 seconds
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Ryan Bingham: “I Thought Music was Bumming Me Out. Winds Up, Music was Keeping Me Alive.”
Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 2:42 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 53 seconds
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Jay B. Sauceda: "Through a Texan’s Lens, Everything That Ain’t Texas is a Little Gray"
Published: Feb. 4, 2019, 3:08 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 30 seconds
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Nolan Ryan: “To Be Called the Willie Nelson of Baseball? That’s a Real Honor.”
Published: Jan. 28, 2019, 3:47 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 50 seconds
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Joe Nick Patoski: “Austin’s Always Been Where Outsiders Come to Work Out Their Ideas.”
Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 2:33 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 39 seconds
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Sahana Srinivasan: “There are so many talented people who look like me that need to be heard.”
Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 56 seconds
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Billy F. Gibbons: “ZZ Top Has Been 50 Years of Making it Up As We Go Along”
Published: Jan. 7, 2019, 3:47 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds
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Leon Bridges: “I’m Not Afraid To Say I’m a Fragile Person”
Published: Dec. 28, 2018, 2:43 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 2 seconds
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H.W. Brands: “We Appreciate Presidents More After They Leave Office"
Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 4:19 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 54 seconds
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Dr. Peter J. Hotez: Anti-Science Forces Have Mastered Social Media
Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 4:45 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 43 seconds
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Liz Rose: “You’re Only As Good As Your Last Hit Song”
Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 5:05 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 36 seconds
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Andrew Knowlton: “Who Orders a Club Sandwich Without Turkey and Mustard? Who Does That?”
Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 4:46 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 46 seconds
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Michael Lewis: "Instead of Draining it, He’s Filled the Swamp with Slithery Green Creatures"
Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 6 seconds
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Eric Benson: “There’s Cruz’s Texas and Beto’s Texas"
Published: Nov. 5, 2018, 2:29 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 7 seconds
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Julian Castro: “You’re not going to beat Donald Trump by trying to out-gutter him.”
Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 19 seconds
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Tom Luce: Texas Has Opportunity to Act Before We’re in Crisis Mode
Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 1:09 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 57 seconds
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Dr Livia S. Eberlin: How Can You Really Define What’s Genius?
Published: Oct. 16, 2018, 1:47 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 36 seconds
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Lisa Loeb: "Having a Huge Hit is Amazing. I’m Not Angry at it at All"
Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 2:08 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 5 seconds
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Mark McKinnon: “We’re testing the guard rails of democracy and they’re holding so far.”
Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 7 seconds
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Ray Benson Introduced Willie to Beto. “Blame me,” He Says
Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 2 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 4 seconds
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Rachel Lindsay: “Until there’s another, I’ll always be ‘the black Bachelorette.’”
Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 1:28 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 29 seconds
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Jimbo Fisher: “Whatever I tell you, you can take it to the bank”
Published: Sept. 4, 2018, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 28 seconds
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Lawson Craddock: Last Place, Full Heart, Didn’t Lose
Published: Aug. 24, 2018, 2:21 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 50 seconds
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Mimi Swartz Offers Up a Tick-Tock on the Pursuit of Medicine’s Holy Grail
Published: Aug. 17, 2018, 1:20 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds
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Dale Hansen: Unplugged, But Never Unglued
Published: Aug. 10, 2018, 2:24 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 54 seconds
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Amanda Shires and Shea Serrano Are Paving Their Own Lanes
Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 2:36 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 44 seconds
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Kam Franklin Is Her Own Woman
Published: July 27, 2018, 3:35 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 46 seconds
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Brian Brushwood Is The Unassuming Scam-Artist Next Door
Published: July 20, 2018, 1:26 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 28 seconds
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Ed Lavandera: CNN’s Texas-based National Correspondent On The Situation At The Border
Published: July 13, 2018, 1:45 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 16 seconds
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Admiral William H. McRaven: A Conversation On Patriotism and The Fourth Of July
Published: July 3, 2018, 7:34 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 57 seconds
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Bill Kilday On The Rag Tag Texans That Gave Us Google Maps
Published: June 29, 2018, 2:53 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 56 seconds
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Mo Knows Immigration: Houston Comic Mo Amer on His Own Journey to Citizenship
Published: June 22, 2018, 1:05 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds
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Red Herrings and The Ultimate Utility Man: Julia Heaberlin and the Longhorn’s Jake McKenzie
Published: June 15, 2018, 4:19 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 59 seconds
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Here Comes Trouble: Cecile Richards
Published: June 8, 2018, 1:21 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds
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El Dusty is Reimagining Cumbia and Helping Reinvent Corpus Christi
Published: June 1, 2018, 2:42 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 32 seconds
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Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo Speaks About Guns, Guts, and Glory
Published: May 23, 2018, 3:54 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds
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The Democratic runoff for Governor is Tuesday, but will it matter?
Published: May 21, 2018, 10:22 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 5 seconds
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Dial A Chef: John Tesar, Rebecca Masson and Rico Torres
Published: May 18, 2018, 12:21 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds
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Going Wide With Tim Ferriss, The Midas of Media Engagement
Published: May 11, 2018, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 9 seconds
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Nothing In Life Is Constant: Ryan Holiday and Shakey Graves
Published: May 4, 2018, 2:34 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 19 seconds
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San Antonio Game-Changers Nina Diaz and Chuck Ramirez
Published: April 27, 2018, 1:53 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: Lawrence Wright Loves Texas, But Not Unconditionally
Published: April 20, 2018, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: The Lance Armstrong Interview
Published: April 12, 2018, 8:07 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 39 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: How the de Menils Helped Build Houston's Art World
Published: April 5, 2018, 10:20 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 13 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: Joe Lansdale Writes Like Everyone He Knows is Dead
Published: March 29, 2018, 6:49 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 46 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: March 22, 2018, Episode 12
Published: March 22, 2018, 8:37 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 16 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: March 16, 2018, Episode 11
Published: March 16, 2018, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: March 7th, 2018, Episode 10
Published: March 7, 2018, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 23 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: March 1, 2018, Episode 9
Published: March 2, 2018, 7:14 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 55 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: February 23, 2018, Episode 8
Published: Feb. 23, 2018, 6:49 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: February 15, 2018, Episode 7
Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 11:19 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 39 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: February 8, 2018, Episode 6
Published: Feb. 8, 2018, 5:25 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: February 1, 2018, Episode 5
Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 8:54 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: January 25, 2018, Episode 4
Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 10:31 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: January 18, 2018 Episode 3
Published: Jan. 19, 2018, 12:36 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
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National Podcast of Texas: January 11, 2018, Episode 2
Published: Jan. 11, 2018, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 24 seconds
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Introducing the ‘National Podcast of Texas’
Published: Jan. 5, 2018, 11:01 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds
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