{"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 3: COUGH COUGH","slug":"smoglandia-pt-3-cough-cough","published_at":"2025-11-13T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiling-point-7162470/smoglandia-pt-3-cough-cough","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boiling-point-7162470","url":"https://boiling-point.simplecast.com/episodes/smoglandia-pt-3-cough-cough-RVwpDMRO","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/9ae3cc3b-73e7-4007-b6ba-f68c54516f71/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=30d2ff82-afb0-470a-bb05-717a1ba8eb0e&awEpisodeId=9ae3cc3b-73e7-4007-b6ba-f68c54516f71&feed=tIb8uziO","summary":"Living with smog was like living with an obnoxious neighbor. Angelenos tried protesting at city hall. They kept their coughing kids inside. A couple of actors manufactured joke cans of “genuine smog” and sold them to tourists. A few came up with earnest but crackpot solutions, like drilling a smog tunnel in the mountains. But serious pollution cost us serious money. Hollywood shoots had to shut down or move farther out of town to avoid it. And Southern California’s billion-dollar agriculture industry was being literally killed off by smog. One story we tell – of the Kaiser Steel plant in Fontana – made it look like LA had to choose between good jobs and good air, between pink slips and pink lungs.","meta_description":"Living with smog was like living with an obnoxious neighbor. Angelenos tried protesting at city hall. They kept their coughing kids inside. A couple of ac…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2066,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/boiling-point-7162470/episodes/smoglandia-pt-3-cough-cough/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-3-cough-cough.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}