{"podcast":{"title":"ELI5 Explain Like I'm 5: Bite sized answers to stuff you should know about - in a mini podcast","slug":"eli5-explain-like-i-m-5-bite-sized-answers-to-stuff-you-should-know-about-in-a-mini-podcast-484092","podcast_index_feed_id":484092,"rss_url":"https://rss.introcast.io/1452382842/feeds.megaphone.fm/eli5","website_url":"https://twitter.com/ELI5ThePodcast","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a236296e-0968-11ef-bce5-579e039a4337/image/312a2e32dcf9031354a45b3d5450445f.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"ELI5 Explain Like I'm Five Podcast","episode_count":364,"summary":"Explain Like I'm Five, aka ELI5, is the mini-podcast series where we take the questions you always wanted to ask, and talk about them in a way that is easy to understand. Made possible by the amazing reddit community at r/explainlikeimfive. See episode show notes for user credits.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eli5-explain-like-i-m-5-bite-sized-answers-to-stuff-you-should-know-about-in-a-mini-podcast-484092"},"episode":{"title":"ELI5 Palladium - more valuable than gold?","slug":"eli5-palladium-more-valuable-than-gold","published_at":"2026-01-16T17:04:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eli5-explain-like-i-m-5-bite-sized-answers-to-stuff-you-should-know-about-in-a-mini-podcast-484092/eli5-palladium-more-valuable-than-gold","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eli5-explain-like-i-m-5-bite-sized-answers-to-stuff-you-should-know-about-in-a-mini-podcast-484092","url":"https://prefix.up.audio/s/pscrb.fm/rss/p/op3.dev/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATHLLC8452245824.mp3","audio_url":"https://prefix.up.audio/s/pscrb.fm/rss/p/op3.dev/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATHLLC8452245824.mp3","summary":"Why is a metal you’ve probably never heard of often worth more than pure gold? Why are thieves risking jail just to steal one specific part from a Toyota Prius? What is the \"Palladium at Night\" satellite doing that no government will admit to owning? How did Ford lose a billion dollars by trying to hoard this \"ghost\" metal? Could this strange metal be the secret to \"cold fusion\" and unlimited power? ... we explain like I'm five Thank you to the r/explainlikeimfive community and in particular the following users whose questions and comments formed the basis of this discussion: tmwnn, jonathanrdt, audiblenod, iwillnevergetaname, tutul_, brokeneye3, cortcortkittycat and lwbdrb0901 To the ELI5 community that has supported us so far, thanks for all your feedback and comments. Join us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/eli5ThePodcast/ or send us an e-mail: ELI5ThePodcast@gmail.com","meta_description":"Why is a metal you’ve probably never heard of often worth more than pure gold? Why are thieves risking jail just to steal one specific part from a Toyota…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":537,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/eli5-explain-like-i-m-5-bite-sized-answers-to-stuff-you-should-know-about-in-a-mini-podcast-484092/episodes/eli5-palladium-more-valuable-than-gold/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eli5-explain-like-i-m-5-bite-sized-answers-to-stuff-you-should-know-about-in-a-mini-podcast-484092/eli5-palladium-more-valuable-than-gold.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}