{"podcast":{"title":"Deborah Lebree's podcast","slug":"deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","podcast_index_feed_id":7041113,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6015089/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast--6015089","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/nuvolari-assets/yellow_square_mic.jpg","author":"Deborah Lebree","episode_count":1000,"summary":null,"last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T16:21:39.869546+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113"},"episode":{"title":"What Went Wrong on the U.S.S. Lincoln?","slug":"what-went-wrong-on-the-u-s-s-lincoln","published_at":"2026-08-18T09:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/what-went-wrong-on-the-u-s-s-lincoln","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-went-wrong-on-the-u-s-s-lincoln--74248968","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74248968/default.mp3","summary":"For the past two weeks, family members of sailors have been raising alarms about the conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which has a crew of about 5,000 and has been at sea for almost nine months straight. Today, John Ismay, a New York Times reporter who covers the Pentagon with a focus on armed conflict and the defense industry, discusses what went wrong on the ship and how it could affect the U.S. military’s ability to fight wars. Guest: John Ismay , a New York Times reporter who covers the Pentagon with a focus on armed conflict and the defense industry. Background reading: The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for nearly nine months. Members of Congress are worried about the crew’s well-being. Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, acknowledged the difficulty of the carrier’s lengthy deployment but said mental health issues were lower than on other vessels. Photo: Jason Waite/Agence France-Presse, via Navy Office of Information For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.","meta_description":"For the past two weeks, family members of sailors have been raising alarms about the conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which has a crew of abo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1835,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/episodes/what-went-wrong-on-the-u-s-s-lincoln/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/what-went-wrong-on-the-u-s-s-lincoln.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}