{"podcast":{"title":"Life's a Pitch Podcast","slug":"life-s-a-pitch-podcast-773","podcast_index_feed_id":773,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:140240683/sounds.rss","website_url":"http://www.patreon.com/lifesapitchpodcast","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-ZfFXyPwJqmvEGeDa-AeHCuA-original.jpg","author":"Matt and Tom","episode_count":500,"summary":"Life's a Pitch brings together bizarre, strange a…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T20:17:19.180968+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-a-pitch-podcast-773"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 547: Street Fighter (Films of 2026)","slug":"episode-547-street-fighter-films-of-2026","published_at":"2026-01-18T09:39:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-a-pitch-podcast-773/episode-547-street-fighter-films-of-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-a-pitch-podcast-773","url":"https://soundcloud.com/lifesapitchpodcast/episode-547","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2249561630-lifesapitchpodcast-episode-547.mp3","summary":"The hosts take upcoming 2026 film titles provided by listeners and reimagine them as absurd, high-concept cinematic pitches. From cloning John Cena to football-themed dystopias, no existing IP is safe from being completely ruined.","meta_description":"The Life's a Pitch hosts reimagine 2026's upcoming film slate with bizarre pitches involving John Cena, Nick Cage, and the 'Paul is Dead' conspiracy.","key_points":["Main idea: Reimagining real 2026 film titles through a lens of high-concept absurdity","Failure mode: The danger of turning a sports biopic into a comet-driven madness thriller","Practical takeaway: Using existing pop culture tropes like 'The Running Man' to ground wild sci-fi premises","Main idea: Exploring the 'Paul is Dead' conspiracy through a play on Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal'","Creative pivot: Transforming a simple football title into a dystopian cloning experiment featuring John Cena"],"chapters":[{"start_ms":60000,"title":"The 2026 Slate","summary":"The hosts introduce the mission to ruin upcoming 2026 film titles provided by social media followers."},{"start_ms":300000,"title":"Madden: The RIP","summary":"A pitch for a John Madden biopic starring Nicolas Cage, involving a comet and a descent into madness."},{"start_ms":720000,"title":"Waiting for Godo","summary":"A discussion on existentialist film pitches and the intersection of sci-fi and drama."},{"start_ms":1620000,"title":"The John Cena Dystopia","summary":"A high-stakes pitch involving a dystopian street lottery, electrified barriers, and a cloning program for John Cena."},{"start_ms":2280000,"title":"The Cena Multiverse","summary":"Rapid-fire ideas for various iterations of John Cena, including dinosaur and pirate versions."},{"start_ms":2700000,"title":"The Seventh Beetle","summary":"A play on 'The Seventh Seal' involving the Beatles and the 'Paul is Dead' urban legend."}],"topics":["Film Pitching","2026 Movies","John Cena","Nicolas Cage","Dystopian Cinema","The Beatles","Pop Culture Parody","Sci-Fi Tropes"],"duration_seconds":3009,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-s-a-pitch-podcast-773/episodes/episode-547-street-fighter-films-of-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-a-pitch-podcast-773/episode-547-street-fighter-films-of-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}