{"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":"The ballots are set. What do candidates need to do now to win in November?","slug":"the-ballots-are-set-what-do-candidates-need-to-do-now-to-win-in-november","published_at":"2026-08-12T21:03:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/essential-minnesota-7677952/the-ballots-are-set-what-do-candidates-need-to-do-now-to-win-in-november","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/essential-minnesota-7677952","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/STB7324621734.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/STB7324621734.mp3","summary":"Minnesota voters delivered historic and surprising results in the primary elections. Politics Editor Brooks Johnson looks ahead at the statewide match ups and the impact the winners will have on Minnesotans and our state’s political scene for decades to come.","meta_description":"Minnesota voters delivered historic and surprising results in the primary elections. Politics Editor Brooks Johnson looks ahead at the statewide match ups…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1647,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/essential-minnesota-7677952/episodes/the-ballots-are-set-what-do-candidates-need-to-do-now-to-win-in-november/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/the-ballots-are-set-what-do-candidates-need-to-do-now-to-win-in-november.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}