{"podcast":{"title":"God Forbid","slug":"god-forbid-567088","podcast_index_feed_id":567088,"rss_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/feeds/8244154/podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/godforbid/","image_url":"https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/9b022a1c24f404a4755241bb86365781.jpg?src","author":"ABC Australia","episode_count":248,"summary":"Religion: it’s at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T12:23:41.914579+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/god-forbid-567088"},"episode":{"title":"The pleasure we take in others' misfortune and what it says about us","slug":"the-pleasure-we-take-in-others-misfortune-and-what-it-says-about-us","published_at":"2026-06-19T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/god-forbid-567088/the-pleasure-we-take-in-others-misfortune-and-what-it-says-about-us","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/god-forbid-567088","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/godforbid/schadenfreude-godforbid/106743372","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/lm/Z/ir.mp3","summary":"You heard that someone had come unstuck. A rival. A bully. Someone overconfident, or two-faced, or just a bit too pleased with themselves. And something in you was glad. You won't say it out loud. You might barely admit it to yourself. But the Germans have a word for it. And it turns out, so did the ancient Greeks. Schadenfreude. The pleasure we take in others' misfortune. Is it a moral failing? A sign of deficient character? Or is it a window into what we actually believe about justice, equality — and each other? GUESTS: Tiffany Watt-Smith is a cultural historian and author of Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune . She joins us from London. Nick Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, and the man who's been thinking hard about Australia's national variant — tall poppy syndrome .","meta_description":"You heard that someone had come unstuck. A rival. A bully. Someone overconfident, or two-faced, or just a bit too pleased with themselves. And something i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3276,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/god-forbid-567088/episodes/the-pleasure-we-take-in-others-misfortune-and-what-it-says-about-us/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/god-forbid-567088/the-pleasure-we-take-in-others-misfortune-and-what-it-says-about-us.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}