{"podcast":{"title":"Checkpoint","slug":"checkpoint-650800","podcast_index_feed_id":650800,"rss_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/acast/checkpoint.rss","website_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint","image_url":"https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--1DCfozPw--/c_fill,f_jpg,h_2000,q_50,w_2000/v1769638651/4JU1RF0_checkpoint_external_cover_v2_png.jpg?_a=BACCd2AD","author":"RNZ","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T08:17:27.890421+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800"},"episode":{"title":"FIFA World Cup tipped to be most environmentally damaging sports event in history","slug":"fifa-world-cup-tipped-to-be-most-environmentally-damaging-sports-event-in-history","published_at":"2026-06-11T04:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800/fifa-world-cup-tipped-to-be-most-environmentally-damaging-sports-event-in-history","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019038878/fifa-world-cup-tipped-to-be-most-environmentally-damaging-sports-event-in-history","audio_url":"https://flex.acast.com/podcast.radionz.co.nz/ckpt/ckpt-20260611-1645-fifa_world_cup_tipped_to_be_environmentally_damaging-128.mp3","summary":"Three countries, 16 cities, more teams and more matches. A University of Auckland researcher says it all means the FIFA World Cup is predicted to be history's most environmentally damaging sports event, while also suffering itself from hotter temperatures. Sociologist Chris McMillan says it's frightening, and spoke with Lisa Owen.","meta_description":"Three countries, 16 cities, more teams and more matches. A University of Auckland researcher says it all means the FIFA World Cup is predicted to be histo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":386,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/checkpoint-650800/episodes/fifa-world-cup-tipped-to-be-most-environmentally-damaging-sports-event-in-history/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800/fifa-world-cup-tipped-to-be-most-environmentally-damaging-sports-event-in-history.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}