# Nobody's Ever Asked Me That: Stephin Merritt

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/talkhouse-podcast-862006/nobody-s-ever-asked-me-that-stephin-merritt
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/talkhouse-podcast-862006/nobody-s-ever-asked-me-that-stephin-merritt.md
Podcast: [Talkhouse Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talkhouse-podcast-862006)
Published: 2026-07-14T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/8fvJdZ1Y8SQ0SkCuaYDp/traffic.megaphone.fm/THI3887649044.mp3
Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/8fvJdZ1Y8SQ0SkCuaYDp/traffic.megaphone.fm/THI3887649044.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talkhouse-podcast-862006/episodes/nobody-s-ever-asked-me-that-stephin-merritt
Duration seconds: 2655

## Resource

On the latest episode Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That, Nick Dawson talks with Magnetic Fields frontman, Stephin Merrit, who was recently (and rightly!) named by the New York Times as one of the 30 greatest living songwriters. In a sprightly, wide-ranging conversation, the two discuss such divergent topics as Brian Wilson’s warning about caffeine and creativity, falling asleep at the movies, the hilarious reason why Ang Lee has beef with his Westchester neighbors, Stephin’s hatred of biopics, his genius plan for a series of soporific audiobooks, dreaming Divine’s death years before it actually happened, and much more. Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That now has a Substack, so head there to check out all of our past episodes, plus subscribe to get access to exclusive audio and video content!

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talkhouse-podcast-862006/episodes/nobody-s-ever-asked-me-that-stephin-merritt/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/talkhouse-podcast-862006/nobody-s-ever-asked-me-that-stephin-merritt.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.