{"podcast":{"title":"Boiling Point","slug":"boiling-point-7162470","podcast_index_feed_id":7162470,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/tIb8uziO","website_url":"https://boiling-point.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/820742b7-0847-4208-acff-e6469781da1a/f0c39348-c3ab-487e-b674-150998504430/3000x3000/lat24boilingpointpodcast3000x3000final.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"L.A. Times Studios","episode_count":49,"summary":"Join Boiling Point in its second season as independent investigative reporter Miranda Green walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. Produced by LA Times Studios, the weekly series will feature interviews with Los Angeles Times reporters, state officials, business leaders and scientific experts discussing the latest news and trends impacting Californians and the country.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T22:18:39.301804+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiling-point-7162470"},"episode":{"title":"Smoglandia Pt 1: L.A. SMOG – VERY OLD-SCHOOL","slug":"smoglandia-pt-1-l-a-smog-very-old-school","published_at":"2025-10-30T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiling-point-7162470/smoglandia-pt-1-l-a-smog-very-old-school","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiling-point-7162470","url":"https://boiling-point.simplecast.com/episodes/la-smog-very-old-school-4j4oEkzR","audio_url":"https://pdrl.fm/7645d8/pscrb.fm/rss/p/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/l7UHKpkhi4bKJvef7xe6/injector.simplecastaudio.com/30d2ff82-afb0-470a-bb05-717a1ba8eb0e/episodes/7cf0f4f0-ae1e-4e39-b1a7-c0519654db9e/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=30d2ff82-afb0-470a-bb05-717a1ba8eb0e&awEpisodeId=7cf0f4f0-ae1e-4e39-b1a7-c0519654db9e&feed=tIb8uziO","summary":"Don’t blame us – blame our geography! Modern LA earned its first smoggy nickname 450 years ago, as the “bay of smokes.” At the La Brea tar pits, we take a short walk through a long history with curator Regan Dunn, who explains how and why the first Angelenos, 130 centuries ago, would have set fires that filled the broad bowl of LA and foretold the curse of smog. Fast forward thousands of years to the early 1940s, and the renowned artist Helen Pashgian, who grew up in Altadena back when the light around LA – once so radiant and cool – was slowly smothered by the blight from wartime industries that hurt her schoolgirl lungs and blotted out the once-glorious vistas.","meta_description":"Don’t blame us – blame our geography! Modern LA earned its first smoggy nickname 450 years ago, as the “bay of smokes.” At the La Brea tar pits, we take a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1477,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/boiling-point-7162470/episodes/smoglandia-pt-1-l-a-smog-very-old-school/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiling-point-7162470/smoglandia-pt-1-l-a-smog-very-old-school.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}