{"podcast":{"title":"Challenger Cities","slug":"challenger-cities-6959558","podcast_index_feed_id":6959558,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/challengercitytoronto/feed.xml","website_url":"https://challengercities.substack.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/challengercitytoronto/20241125_031154_12bb296aa546a7561a00033f0e685478.png","author":"Iain Montgomery","episode_count":104,"summary":"Iain Montgomery of Now or Never Ventures interviews urbanists, creatives, transit and development types to explore how cities can punch above their weight and create distinctive new futures outside of the tired playbooks.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T16:20:32.169836+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558"},"episode":{"title":"Challenger Cities EP91: Expanding Your Luck Surface Area with Matt Ballantine","slug":"challenger-cities-ep91-expanding-your-luck-surface-area-with-matt-ballantine","published_at":"2026-07-02T19:59:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep91-expanding-your-luck-surface-area-with-matt-ballantine","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/challengercitytoronto/2960340","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/278784/2960340/challengercitytoronto/2026_07_02_19_54_05_0e5f39c9-803b-4743-9b90-8ce3b76ea306.mp3","summary":"In this spirit of being the world's most eclectic podcast about cities and places, this episode is a bit random. Which is good, because it's with Matt Ballantine and he's written a book, called Random with Nick Drage. Some might say 120 short stories that can be shuffled into any order isn't actually a book, but I read it as one, and it's excellent. Plus many of the stories are about cities, places and people in them. In a world where we spend so much time filtering out opportunities for luck, serendipity or just the unplanned ... this is a conversation that is very important for dragging people that feel everything can be perfectly zoned or planned, back into the real world.","meta_description":"In this spirit of being the world's most eclectic podcast about cities and places, this episode is a bit random. Which is good, because it's with Matt Bal…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2851,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/challenger-cities-6959558/episodes/challenger-cities-ep91-expanding-your-luck-surface-area-with-matt-ballantine/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep91-expanding-your-luck-surface-area-with-matt-ballantine.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}