S5 E4: Lawrence Wright on Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die
b'This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright talks about a Willie hit of recent vintage, 2011\\u2019s \\u201cRoll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.\\u201d That may seem an odd focus song for Larry, a New Yorker staff-writer known for tackling topics like Scientology and the rise of radical Islam, but he\\u2019s also a native Texan who\\u2019s written whole books on the Texas myth. In that vein, he\\u2019s got deep, personal thoughts on how Willie\\u2019s most truly subversive move was to wear his hair\\u2014in the 70s in Texas!\\u2014in long, braided pigtails; the existential quality of watching him and Trigger grow old together; and the weirdly difficult role Larry played in getting a Willie statue erected in downtown Austin.'