{"podcast":{"title":"Cannonball with Wesley Morris","slug":"cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699","podcast_index_feed_id":800699,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/JJrAJ_VY","website_url":"http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/still-processing","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4105a47a-42e5-4ccc-887a-832af7989986/f744f7d3-52bd-4733-ae4a-818042909996/3000x3000/cannonball-album-20art-3000px-0605.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The New York Times","episode_count":54,"summary":"Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly personal and never obvious, new episodes drop Thursdays. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T18:18:04.061353+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699"},"episode":{"title":"In Potato Salad We Trust","slug":"in-potato-salad-we-trust","published_at":"2026-07-02T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/in-potato-salad-we-trust","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/still-processing","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/2893446d-8730-4532-8321-b81d2bb2b03b/episodes/74fa2b66-308a-4272-ad99-0894a336d9ee/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=2893446d-8730-4532-8321-b81d2bb2b03b&awEpisodeId=74fa2b66-308a-4272-ad99-0894a336d9ee&feed=JJrAJ_VY","summary":"Forget the hot dogs and apple pie. Wesley has one thing on his mind this Fourth of July — potato salad! The moment has stirred up some really strong feelings for this classic summer staple and how it lives up to the country’s ideals of what it is and could be. Wesley takes to the streets of New York City and back to The Times’s Cooking Kitchen to test out his theory against his family’s recipe for potato salad. Is it the beacon of hope and possibility that he thinks it is? Along the way, he’s joined by a two-time James Beard Award winner and food historian, Jessica B. Harris, to answer this essential question: Does potato salad belong on the Mount Rushmore of national dishes?","meta_description":"Forget the hot dogs and apple pie. Wesley has one thing on his mind this Fourth of July — potato salad! The moment has stirred up some really strong feeli…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1871,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/episodes/in-potato-salad-we-trust/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/in-potato-salad-we-trust.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}