{"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 EP94: We Wunt Be Druv with John V Willshire","slug":"challenger-cities-ep94-we-wunt-be-druv-with-john-v-willshire","published_at":"2026-07-29T13:53:35+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep94-we-wunt-be-druv-with-john-v-willshire","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/challengercitytoronto/3031672","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/278784/3031672/challengercitytoronto/2026_07_29_13_51_58_a9d35d61-3658-4245-a233-e5e90ed390a2.mp3","summary":"John V Willshire is the third corner of a loose triptych of British innovation-strategy types I can never quite give a single job title. He runs Smithery, carries a little yellow card called an obliquoscope for teaching himself to notice things, and has a gift for the metaphor that reframes everything. In this case, swapping the language of levers and control for gardening where you can't tell a plant what to do, you can only offer it a trellis and see what climbs. We get from there to Sussex, its improbable 2006-vintage \"ancient\" charter, and We Wunt Be Druv , a game about refusing the devolution you're handed and designing one that works round here instead. It's really a conversation about agency; why you only notice what you feel you could act on, why organisations don't care about things but people do, and why the smallest possible thing of a homemade game played in Thomas Paine's front room might be how the biggest possible future actually starts. And this is the piece that kicked off our conversation: https://buttondown.com/artefacts/archive/artefact-263/","meta_description":"John V Willshire is the third corner of a loose triptych of British innovation-strategy types I can never quite give a single job title. He runs Smithery,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3655,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/challenger-cities-6959558/episodes/challenger-cities-ep94-we-wunt-be-druv-with-john-v-willshire/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-ep94-we-wunt-be-druv-with-john-v-willshire.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}