{"podcast":{"title":"Texas Matters","slug":"texas-matters-537140","podcast_index_feed_id":537140,"rss_url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8ca4d41/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1400x1400+0+0/resize/1400x1400!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb4%2Fe9%2F4fdea463482a9d7140badee1720c%2Fsafeimagekit-resized-img.png","author":"David Martin Davies (texaspublicradio@gmail.com)","episode_count":20,"summary":"Texas is a big state with a growing, diverse population and as the population grows, the issues and challenges facing its residents multiply. Texas Matters is a statewide news program that spends half an hour each week looking at the issues and culture of Texas.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:20:53.643442+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140"},"episode":{"title":"Texas Matters: 'After The Flood'  — Part 2","slug":"texas-matters-after-the-flood-part-2","published_at":"2026-07-02T22:53:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140/texas-matters-after-the-flood-part-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140","url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/2026-07-02/texas-matters-after-the-flood-part-2","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s188/audio/2026/07/txm-1443-flood-pt-2.mp3","summary":"It has been one year since the tragic flash flood on the upper Guadalupe River that took over 117 lives. Why were local officials caught off guard when the rains came and the flooding hit? The region is called \"flash flood alley,\" and there is a long history of tragic floods on the river. We hear the second episode of the Texas Newsroom podcast, “After the Flood.”","meta_description":"It has been one year since the tragic flash flood on the upper Guadalupe River that took over 117 lives. Why were local officials caught off guard when th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1752,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/texas-matters-537140/episodes/texas-matters-after-the-flood-part-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140/texas-matters-after-the-flood-part-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}