{"podcast":{"title":"Texas Take","slug":"texas-take-692181","podcast_index_feed_id":692181,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/SFO9350148417","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/07764966-9c15-11ed-972f-a7772211962d/image/image.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Scott Kingsley","episode_count":254,"summary":"Go behind the headlines for a look at what's really going on at the Texas Capitol and in Washington with the state's #1 political podcast: Texas Take. Join the conversation featuring Houston Chronicle/San Antonio Express-News political writer Jeremy Wallace.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T04:20:30.375643+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-take-692181"},"episode":{"title":"Monster, Snubs and Japanese Anime","slug":"monster-snubs-and-japanese-anime","published_at":"2026-04-02T18:47:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-take-692181/monster-snubs-and-japanese-anime","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-take-692181","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/DGE379/traffic.megaphone.fm/SFO9829545570.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/DGE379/traffic.megaphone.fm/SFO9829545570.mp3","summary":"Did Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott just get snubbed by CPAC in their own backyard? Houston Chronicle reporter Benjamin Wermund joins this week's episode to explain why the crowd favored JD Vance and Marco Rubio over either. Plus with gas prices climbing, Trump voters may be paying more at the pump. In Midland and Odessa, people are pay much more for a gallon of gas than those in Houston, Dallas or Austin - all places Kamala Harris carried in 2024. And host Jeremy Wallace has seen far too many Godzilla movies. He explains why a congressional hearing about deep-sea mining operations of the Gulf Coast has him worried about what lurks beneath the waves. Finally State Sen. Nathan Johnson joins the program for an exclusive one-on-one to talk about his campaign for attorney general, his double life writing music for Dragon Ball Z and his concern over the calcification of power in the governor's office that he says would have alarmed the framers of the Texas Constitution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Did Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott just get snubbed by CPAC in their own backyard? Houston Chronicle reporter Benjamin Wermund joins this week's episode to expl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3698,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/texas-take-692181/episodes/monster-snubs-and-japanese-anime/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-take-692181/monster-snubs-and-japanese-anime.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}