{"podcast":{"title":"Before. During. After.","slug":"before-during-after-7765570","podcast_index_feed_id":7765570,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/before-during-after","website_url":"https://www.smirkexperience.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/o6BghIKIdo2dZCTP0-OxAVe0l-pBB4VWvawiq3J9iMQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNDM1/YTdjOGEzYTkwOTg2/ZDRkODZlZWE2NDQx/OGI3NS5qcGc.jpg","author":"Smirk Experience","episode_count":18,"summary":"Before. During. After. is a Smirk Experience podcast about performance; from the inside. Every week Sam Carrington will sit down with a professional comedian. He'll find out what they do in preparation for a show, what they concentrate on while they're performing and what they focus on when it's done, all to maximise their performance. Because great performances don't just happen, they're built.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T16:20:54.976942+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/before-during-after-7765570"},"episode":{"title":"Before. During. After. with Ben Clover","slug":"before-during-after-with-ben-clover","published_at":"2026-06-24T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/before-during-after-7765570/before-during-after-with-ben-clover","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/before-during-after-7765570","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/fed2bc16","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/fed2bc16/b923c4ed.mp3","summary":"Today's guest is the brilliant Ben Clover, a wonderful comic who now helps other comics with their shows- which means he's very much tuned in to the BDA vibe. Ben and Sam discuss the power of proper preparation, how that prep gives you freedom to ad lib and why listening back to yourself is rarely as bad as you think.","meta_description":"Today's guest is the brilliant Ben Clover, a wonderful comic who now helps other comics with their shows- which means he's very much tuned in to the BDA v…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5200,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/before-during-after-7765570/episodes/before-during-after-with-ben-clover/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/before-during-after-7765570/before-during-after-with-ben-clover.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}