{"podcast":{"title":"Head in the Office","slug":"head-in-the-office-4116104","podcast_index_feed_id":4116104,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/5f5032c8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/headintheofficepod?fan_landing=true","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/15890914/15890914-1783021300388-246b26286b925.jpg","author":"HITO Media LLC","episode_count":331,"summary":"On Head in the Office, two big-time political gurus, Jeremy & Gage, dissect the weekly news and offer a leftist point of view on recent events. As society flirts with fascism, perpetuates massive inequality, and protects the most privileged, Head in the Office examines why our political systems seem to never function properly and are so terrible all the time through comedy and charming commentary. New episodes every Wednesday and Friday at noon. Early access on Patreon: www.patreon.com/headintheofficepod","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T06:18:33.304266+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/head-in-the-office-4116104"},"episode":{"title":"Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Pain","slug":"short-term-pain-for-long-term-pain","published_at":"2026-05-20T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/head-in-the-office-4116104/short-term-pain-for-long-term-pain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/head-in-the-office-4116104","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/headintheoffice/episodes/Short-Term-Pain-for-Long-Term-Pain-e3jig2h","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO4858594123.mp3","summary":"The same news is still happening: Iran war negotiations are fake, Trump is threatening genocide again (and admitting he doesn't care about our finances), gas prices are still high, and there is another Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire although fire has not ceased. Ka$h Patel stories keep hitting the timeline, this time it's about a “VIP snorkeling" trip at Pearl Harbor. Mallory McMorrow launched fake doctor allegations at Abdul El-Sayed, and Matt Walsh (Matt WASHED) is beefing with... Rosa Parks??? Early access on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headintheofficepod Substack: https://headintheoffice.substack.com/ HITO Merch: https://headintheoffice.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4iJ-UcnRxYnaYsX_SNjFJQ Subscribe to second channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3UoTN328OA7fK2dzicP-ZA TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headintheoffice?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headintheoffice/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/headintheoffice Threads: https://www.threads.com/@headintheoffice Discord: https://discord.gg/hito Collab inquiries: headintheofficepod@gmail.com (0:00) Trump does NOT care about your financial situation (5:25) Intro (8:00) GEOPOLITICS: China, Iran, Lebanon, Cuba (45:10) Kash Patel's VIP Snorkel (51:32) Democrats & Republicans vote for surveillance bill (54:45) Abdul fake doctor allegations (1:04:20) Matt Walsh beefs with Rosa Parks (1:08:05) Reviews/ending Seen on this episode: Geopolitics update - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/business/oil-stocks-gas-trump-iran.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/business/energy-environment/iran-war-oil-countries-winners-losers.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/16/israeli-strikes-on-southern-lebanon-continue-despite-ceasefire-extension https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/us-military…","meta_description":"The same news is still happening: Iran war negotiations are fake, Trump is threatening genocide again (and admitting he doesn't care about our finances),…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4478,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/head-in-the-office-4116104/episodes/short-term-pain-for-long-term-pain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/head-in-the-office-4116104/short-term-pain-for-long-term-pain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}