{"podcast":{"title":"Jerm Warfare","slug":"jerm-warfare-7121194","podcast_index_feed_id":7121194,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/jerm-warfare-2025/feed.xml","website_url":"https://jermwarfare.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/jerm-warfare-2025/20260415_090435_4a1cafdae4cc1f834d73daac2b5e7b38.jpg","author":"Jerm","episode_count":303,"summary":"We’re constantly bombarded with fake news, propaganda, agendas, and outright lies. It’s an information war. What is true? I don’t know either—but I’m trying to find out, one dangerous idea at a time.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T22:18:00.274196+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194"},"episode":{"title":"The mind virus","slug":"the-mind-virus","published_at":"2026-09-02T11:45:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194/the-mind-virus","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/jerm-warfare-2025/3114849","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/303972/3114849/jerm-warfare-2025/2026_09_02_11_42_31_05d36547-24f2-490c-b178-c0110ed8daaf.mp3","summary":"John Leake joined me on the podcast years ago, and he's back to discuss his new book on mental contagions. Since Covid, John has been tracking what he calls \"mind viruses\": irrational ideas that spread faster than any bug, and which the state knows exactly how to weaponise. Every crisis, real or manufactured, becomes a pretext for more power. His cure is old-fashioned: think for yourself, question the herd, and remember that conformity in a panic is how the con wins.","meta_description":"John Leake joined me on the podcast years ago, and he's back to discuss his new book on mental contagions. Since Covid, John has been tracking what he cal…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3620,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/jerm-warfare-7121194/episodes/the-mind-virus/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194/the-mind-virus.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}