# Lifeslices: Escaping America Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lifeslices-with-steve-fisher-7051007/lifeslices-escaping-america Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lifeslices-with-steve-fisher-7051007/lifeslices-escaping-america.md Podcast: [Lifeslices with Steve Fisher](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lifeslices-with-steve-fisher-7051007) Published: 2026-05-18T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lifeslices-escaping-america--72052009 Audio file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72052009/6_20_escapingamerica_final_processed.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lifeslices-with-steve-fisher-7051007/episodes/lifeslices-escaping-america Duration seconds: 1939 ## Resource For the first time since the Great Depression of the 1930s, more Americans are leaving the country than are looking to settle here. Reasons vary, including the divisive politics, deteriorating healthcare and cost of living, among others. If you’re one of those people looking for the greener grass of other geographical locales, there are many things to know. Doug Oas has lived overseas and helped others doing the same. He joins host Steve Fisher to share some things to need to know for Escaping America. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lifeslices-with-steve-fisher-7051007/episodes/lifeslices-escaping-america/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/lifeslices-with-steve-fisher-7051007/lifeslices-escaping-america.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.