{"podcast":{"title":"Bulwark Takes","slug":"bulwark-takes-7201724","podcast_index_feed_id":7201724,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5149464.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5149464","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43757337.jpg","author":"The Bulwark","episode_count":500,"summary":"The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither does The Bulwark. Bulwark Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team, including Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and Bill Kristol, and more.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T04:18:46.924998+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bulwark-takes-7201724"},"episode":{"title":"Trump’s Ballroom Obsession Has Gone Totally Off the Rails (w/ Ben Terris)","slug":"trump-s-ballroom-obsession-has-gone-totally-off-the-rails-w-ben-terris","published_at":"2026-09-06T21:02:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bulwark-takes-7201724/trump-s-ballroom-obsession-has-gone-totally-off-the-rails-w-ben-terris","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bulwark-takes-7201724","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8949481","audio_url":"https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8949481.mp3?modified=1788728554&sid=5149464&source=rss","summary":"Tim Miller sits down with New York Magazine’s Ben Terris to discuss his extraordinary reporting on Donald Trump’s obsession with the new White House ballroom. Ben spent 90 minutes with Trump, toured the ballroom construction site, and got a firsthand look at the massive project, which is already employing hundreds of workers. Trump claims the ballroom is being built with “nuclear concrete” strong enough to withstand a nuclear blast. He also opened up to Ben about why he’s so determined to build it, agreeing that nobody else would build monuments to him after he’s gone. Read more from Ben: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-white-house-ballroom-helipad-reflecting-pool-supreme-court.html","meta_description":"Tim Miller sits down with New York Magazine’s Ben Terris to discuss his extraordinary reporting on Donald Trump’s obsession with the new White House ballr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1459,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bulwark-takes-7201724/episodes/trump-s-ballroom-obsession-has-gone-totally-off-the-rails-w-ben-terris/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bulwark-takes-7201724/trump-s-ballroom-obsession-has-gone-totally-off-the-rails-w-ben-terris.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}