{"podcast":{"title":"Essential Minnesota","slug":"essential-minnesota-7677952","podcast_index_feed_id":7677952,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/essentialminnesota","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/bc053764-f646-11f0-af37-4358c03a09a8/image/e978c9ce6b10da51398ae11d72bee4d8.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Minnesota Star Tribune","episode_count":40,"summary":"Every Friday host Melissa Townsend brings her distinct curiosity and humor to these weekly deep-dive conversations with journalists from the Minnesota Star Tribune. Together they dig into interesting and important local stories that matter to Minnesota and beyond. It’s what the Minnesota Star Tribune does best. Available Fridays at 4:30 A.M. Central.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T20:19:33.591844+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/essential-minnesota-7677952"},"episode":{"title":"Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve Breaks One More Record","slug":"lynx-s-cheryl-reeve-breaks-one-more-record","published_at":"2026-07-10T09:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/essential-minnesota-7677952/lynx-s-cheryl-reeve-breaks-one-more-record","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/essential-minnesota-7677952","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/STB9395213295.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/STB9395213295.mp3","summary":"This week she capped off an historic month becoming the winningest coach in WNBA history. We go behind the scenes with reporter Cassidy Hettesheimer to Reeve’s early days and the secrets to her success. Corrections: In this conversation there are two errors to correct. First, Cheryl Reeve is not head of Business Operations. That was a slip of the tongue. She is actually head of Basketball Operations. Second, Natasha Howard was in the WNBA All-Star game in 2019 and 2022. She was not in the All-Star game in 2020.","meta_description":"This week she capped off an historic month becoming the winningest coach in WNBA history. We go behind the scenes with reporter Cassidy Hettesheimer to Re…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1357,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/essential-minnesota-7677952/episodes/lynx-s-cheryl-reeve-breaks-one-more-record/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/essential-minnesota-7677952/lynx-s-cheryl-reeve-breaks-one-more-record.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}