{"podcast":{"title":"Don't You Dare To Think Out Loud!","slug":"don-t-you-dare-to-think-out-loud-6458124","podcast_index_feed_id":6458124,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1750192.rss","website_url":"https://javiertruben.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1750192/4aec56d502b2e413b3f779d2c6fc9e94.jpg","author":"Javier Truben","episode_count":47,"summary":"A transnational author and voice crafter. Wrote a few novels and a medieval trilogy. And works hard to upload them on ACX before the inevitable vocal folds atrophy.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-you-dare-to-think-out-loud-6458124"},"episode":{"title":"Devil's Pen","slug":"devil-s-pen","published_at":"2025-03-27T22:21:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-you-dare-to-think-out-loud-6458124/devil-s-pen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-you-dare-to-think-out-loud-6458124","url":"https://javiertruben.substack.com/p/devils-pen","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/159972995/14e42754138f345f3be273ecbaa05c3f.mp3","summary":"Yesterday, I had a lovely spring morning. I had to take care of some paperwork in Barcelona, which left me at the doorstep of my favorite bookstore, La Central del Raval. I hope it will remain open for many more years. I recommend its patio for quiet reading, although I don’t like the self-service and the long queue for those who are undecided about which cake to choose. When I returned to my studio, the rain blessed me again with its music. But the new cause célèbre in the publishing industry truly irked me. I couldn't resist sharing my thoughts with the people I trust. Go to court and get an order to halt the publication of a book? It certainly was paradoxical for me, a firm defender of freedom of speech and of using all the words in the dictionary while writing without prejudice. That's what this literary podcast is about. In 2011, José Bretón, a spiteful and deranged father, reacted violently to his wife Ruth Ortiz’s announcement of their divorce. This led him to make a heinous decision to commit double filicide, killing his six-year-old daughter Ruth and his two-year-old son José. He first gave them pills and then put them at the stake using 551 lbs of firewood and 176 lbs of gas oil. Although his criminal goal wasn’t to kill his wife, it was to inflict unbearable emotional trauma on her. This act of vicarious violence is a form of gender-based violence that targets women. The police finally confirmed, after firing an incompetent forensic, that they had found the charred bones of the children on Breton’s family farm. While he kept denying the proven facts and presenting himself as an exemplary father. A psychiatrist who examined him diagnosed that he did not suffer from any mental disorder. Consequently, the justice sentenced Bretón to 40 years in prison. That bei…","meta_description":"Yesterday, I had a lovely spring morning. I had to take care of some paperwork in Barcelona, which left me at the doorstep of my favorite bookstore, La Ce…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":635,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/don-t-you-dare-to-think-out-loud-6458124/episodes/devil-s-pen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-you-dare-to-think-out-loud-6458124/devil-s-pen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}