{"podcast":{"title":"Lost Debate","slug":"lost-debate-4428349","podcast_index_feed_id":4428349,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LDI5758173977","website_url":"https://thebranchmedia.org/show/lost-debate/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/99126e94-2b74-11ec-972d-d3c180841fe4/image/c83aab1ee471dc48641f99e9bda558da.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Branch","episode_count":455,"summary":"Lost Debate is a weekly podcast from The Branch that brings you news, ideas, and arguments from around the political spectrum. We engage in the good-faith discussions that too much of our society and media miss. It's hosted by Ravi Gupta, a former Obama staffer turned school principal.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-25T02:21:32.886152+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lost-debate-4428349"},"episode":{"title":"What We Did in the Shadows","slug":"what-we-did-in-the-shadows","published_at":"2026-08-12T21:58:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lost-debate-4428349/what-we-did-in-the-shadows","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lost-debate-4428349","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/LDI3043411010.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/LDI3043411010.mp3","summary":"Nightlife gave us jazz, disco, techno, and entire cultural revolutions. From the courtesan districts of 17th-century Japan to the ruins of postwar Berlin, historian Imogen Willetts takes us through the history of nightlife, uncovering how outsiders transformed forgotten spaces into engines of art and rebellion. She explains why the best scenes thrive in moments of upheaval, why popularity often destroys them, and how smartphones have shattered the anonymity that once made the night feel free. Where will the next great youth movement take shape—or have modern culture and technology made one impossible? Imogen Willetts ◾ Buy Up All Night: A World History of Night Life ◾ Follow Imogen ◾ Learn more about Imogen Find Lost Debate ◾Subscribe to our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@LostDebate ◾Get show notes and email updates - https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ ◾Follow us - @thebranchmedia More on Ravi Gupta ◾Pre-Order Ravi’s new book The Invisible List -  https://readinvisiblelist.com/ ◾Join the Invisible Posse -  https://readinvisiblelist.com/posse ◾Read Ravi’s Substack - https://realravigupta.substack.com  ◾Follow Ravi- https://www.instagram.com/ravimgupta/","meta_description":"Nightlife gave us jazz, disco, techno, and entire cultural revolutions. From the courtesan districts of 17th-century Japan to the ruins of postwar Berlin,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2685,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lost-debate-4428349/episodes/what-we-did-in-the-shadows/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lost-debate-4428349/what-we-did-in-the-shadows.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}