{"podcast":{"title":"Cold War Cast","slug":"cold-war-cast-4464492","podcast_index_feed_id":4464492,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/6b43b26c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coldwarcast","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/17895987/17895987-1631531697962-a535306eaaeba.jpg","author":"Cold War Cast","episode_count":56,"summary":"The history and the pop culture of the Cold War with Ryan Lewellin","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T18:19:01.909415+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-cast-4464492"},"episode":{"title":"The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)","slug":"the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951","published_at":"2026-05-06T23:08:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-cast-4464492/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-cast-4464492","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coldwarcast/episodes/The-Day-The-Earth-Stood-Still-1951-e3j0imp","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/6b43b26c/podcast/play/119605401/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-6%2F423637271-44100-2-52bf1d8ac04ea.m4a","summary":"Today we’re talking about one of the key films of the Cold War, The Day The Earth Stood still. In the film a humanoid alien, Klaatu, delivers a message to Earth - live peacefully or else. Through Klaatu’s interactions with humans we look at our society through a mile high (or 200 million “earth miles”?) lens. It’s a good snapshot of Cold War America and fears for the future - utopia or destruction…and it’s up to us (which isn’t promising, as we’ll see). On some levels it seems like beauty pageant tier politics, but digging a little deeper it brings up questions of the use of force in order to shape the world as you want it. This is one of the best sci-fi films ever made. Enjoy.","meta_description":"Today we’re talking about one of the key films of the Cold War, The Day The Earth Stood still. In the film a humanoid alien, Klaatu, delivers a message to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1552,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cold-war-cast-4464492/episodes/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-cast-4464492/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}