{"podcast":{"title":"Garden of Thought","slug":"garden-of-thought-3714659","podcast_index_feed_id":3714659,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4863095/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/garden-of-thought--4863095","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3134fbfbed776f560b49645841127799.jpg","author":"Jeff Lippman","episode_count":507,"summary":"Hey there, welcome to the Garden of Thought! It's a place where we plant seeds of curiosity and see what sprouts. We'll be exploring all sorts of fascinating topics with your host, Jeff Lippman: the news, pop culture, those weird creatures you hear about, old myths, alien stories, human history, and, yeah, maybe even a little wrestling. Come along for the ride, because every great story has to start somewhere.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T16:17:03.036551+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659"},"episode":{"title":"Garden of Thought E.371  Long Term Care","slug":"garden-of-thought-e-371-long-term-care","published_at":"2026-04-29T17:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659/garden-of-thought-e-371-long-term-care","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/garden-of-thought-e-371-long-term-care--71223026","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71223026/ltc.mp3","summary":"Matt McCann is a lomg term care specialist with a simple but unpleasant lesson for us all. We all need to plan for needing some level of assistance in living as we get older. And there's not really anyone equipped to help you except you. You might wonder why we're discussing this topic on this show. It's a little outside even our generous strike zone. But there are two reasons: 1. It is something that is a universal need. Probably not limited to the USA. 2. It's a significant piece of the the health care issue. which are caches of issues. This is some of the pieces in that mosaic and I hope to cover more of those pieces over time.","meta_description":"Matt McCann is a lomg term care specialist with a simple but unpleasant lesson for us all. We all need to plan for needing some level of assistance in liv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3143,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/garden-of-thought-3714659/episodes/garden-of-thought-e-371-long-term-care/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659/garden-of-thought-e-371-long-term-care.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}