{"podcast":{"title":"Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone","slug":"free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501","podcast_index_feed_id":5501501,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/66221.rss","website_url":"https://www.sashastone.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/66221/36b7823df12a5b8d9115f36ad187a369.jpg","author":"Sasha Stone","episode_count":279,"summary":"Analysis of Hollywood's newly adopted ideology destroying storytelling, however good its intentions. Film reviews, essays, perhaps an interview of two.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-21T02:21:00.378485+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501"},"episode":{"title":"The Cruel Irony of \"No Kings\" For the Women of Iran","slug":"the-cruel-irony-of-no-kings-for-the-women-of-iran","published_at":"2026-03-29T22:26:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501/the-cruel-irony-of-no-kings-for-the-women-of-iran","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501","url":"https://www.sashastone.com/p/the-cruel-irony-of-no-kings-for-the","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192525103/a856303ccadcb153b09fd69f40401b0e.mp3","summary":"Imagine being an Iranian right now, especially an Iranian woman, as hundreds of thousands of American women gather to exercise their freedom in a free country, people like Jane Fonda who have everything and yet are still out there bleating about fascism and oppression. Imagine protesting something that doesn’t exist: a king in America. Protesting the very same democracy that put said “king” in power. Yes, that’s what democracy looks like. Sometimes it doesn’t go your way. Imagine being in Iran, knowing how many brave citizens attempted to protest their government, only to be mowed down just for standing there, seeing all of these idiots in America marching in their No Kings parade. It would be like someone dying of hunger watching the line form at the Golden Coral all-you-can-eat buffet. Even NPR covered the women protesting in Iran back in January: And now: They have no shame, these people. They throw their public temper tantrums, holding their dumb signs that say things like “fascism” and “dictators” and “No Kings,” serving only to project to the rest of the world how delusional and cut off from reality they have become. And we’re supposed to put these people — this cult — back in power? Imagine being anyone in Venezuela and watching this grotesque spectacle play out. Imagine what it must feel like in Iran as they hope and pray that Trump is successful in castrating their dictatorial, oppressive regime, and to see so many Americans rooting for his failure, protesting a war alongside the Houthis. That is how desperate they are now to win their war on Trump. I mean, you couldn’t make this up if you tried. The headline says it all: “Houthis enter Middle East war | Millions join anti-Trump protests worldwide.” The Houthis mantra: “God is the Greatest, Death to America, D…","meta_description":"Imagine being an Iranian right now, especially an Iranian woman, as hundreds of thousands of American women gather to exercise their freedom in a free cou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1551,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501/episodes/the-cruel-irony-of-no-kings-for-the-women-of-iran/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501/the-cruel-irony-of-no-kings-for-the-women-of-iran.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}