{"podcast":{"title":"Boston Public Radio Podcast","slug":"boston-public-radio-podcast-740829","podcast_index_feed_id":740829,"rss_url":"https://feeds.wgbh.org/154/feed-rss.xml","website_url":"http://wgbhnews.org/bpr","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/154/images/6bf814a0-6a42-4753-ae1a-fdd8055f1745/bpr_podcast.jpeg","author":"GBH News (online_support@wgbh.org)","episode_count":3030,"summary":"Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. We feature our favorite conversation from each show. To hear the full show, please visit wgbhnews.org/bpr To share your opinion, email bpr@wgbh.org or call or text 877-301-8970 during the live broadcast from 11AM-1PM Monday through Friday.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T00:20:33.461359+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boston-public-radio-podcast-740829"},"episode":{"title":"BPR Full Show 8/17/26: AI Slop","slug":"bpr-full-show-8-17-26-ai-slop","published_at":"2026-08-17T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boston-public-radio-podcast-740829/bpr-full-show-8-17-26-ai-slop","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boston-public-radio-podcast-740829","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_154_87580d53-bd75-44e1-840d-c02e35ef5b16&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.wgbh.org%2F154%2Ffeed-rss.xml","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/154/87580d53-bd75-44e1-840d-c02e35ef5b16/BPR-20260817_01.mp3","summary":"We air a conversation Jim and Margery had with Sasha Waters, filmmaker behind the new Mary Oliver documentary. Hiawatha Bray joins to discuss the AI slop and datacenter backlash. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Princeton professor, discusses the dismissal of Trump's antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, and Tyler Austin Harper's Atlantic piece on quitting the tenure track. Sy Montgomery zooms in to discuss Jinny Lu, the world's ugliest dog ... a group of marmots turning to OnlyFans to raise some money ... and a pet goose named Goosey who honked to alert their family of a barn fire, saving all their animals.","meta_description":"We air a conversation Jim and Margery had with Sasha Waters, filmmaker behind the new Mary Oliver documentary. Hiawatha Bray joins to discuss the AI slop…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6483,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/boston-public-radio-podcast-740829/episodes/bpr-full-show-8-17-26-ai-slop/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boston-public-radio-podcast-740829/bpr-full-show-8-17-26-ai-slop.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}