# 709: Philip Schultz! Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drunken-odyssey-with-john-king-a-podcast-about-the-writing-life-1080856/709-philip-schultz Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drunken-odyssey-with-john-king-a-podcast-about-the-writing-life-1080856/709-philip-schultz.md Podcast: [The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drunken-odyssey-with-john-king-a-podcast-about-the-writing-life-1080856) Published: 2026-03-28T18:26:00+00:00 Episode link: https://thedrunkenodyssey.libsyn.com/709-philip-schultz Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thedrunkenodyssey/The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_709.mp3?dest-id=101456 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-drunken-odyssey-with-john-king-a-podcast-about-the-writing-life-1080856/episodes/709-philip-schultz Duration seconds: 3911 ## Resource In this week's show, John speaks with the poet Philip Schultz about his wonderful new poetry collection, Enormous Morning . We discuss the self-critical voices that Philip calls the shit-bird, how personas can empower us to become more of ourselves, and the ironies of finding gratitude in our depression in observing how the world tears itself apart. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-drunken-odyssey-with-john-king-a-podcast-about-the-writing-life-1080856/episodes/709-philip-schultz/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drunken-odyssey-with-john-king-a-podcast-about-the-writing-life-1080856/709-philip-schultz.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.