{"podcast":{"title":"Mountain Money","slug":"mountain-money-11581","podcast_index_feed_id":11581,"rss_url":"https://www.kpcw.org/podcast/mountain-money/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.kpcw.org/podcast/mountain-money","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/390c68b/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2F2f%2Fc652880b446e94b14c308be420ec%2Fmm-title-card-01.png","author":"Roger Goldman, Kevin Kennedy (production@kpcw.org)","episode_count":20,"summary":"Mountain Money is a weekly, hour-long program that focuses on small business news and personal finance. Co-hosts Roger Goldman and Kevin Kennedy explore the unique challenges of working in a mountain town.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T08:17:11.238169+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mountain-money-11581"},"episode":{"title":"Who really holds the power? Democracy's blind spot","slug":"who-really-holds-the-power-democracy-s-blind-spot","published_at":"2026-06-15T19:14:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mountain-money-11581/who-really-holds-the-power-democracy-s-blind-spot","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mountain-money-11581","url":"https://www.kpcw.org/podcast/mountain-money/2026-06-15/who-really-holds-the-power-democracys-blind-spot","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s146/audio/2026/06/mm-06-15-26.mp3","summary":"Jeffery Winters, author of \"The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy,\" joins Roger and Kevin to discuss how a small, wealthy elite exerts outsized influence on American democracy. He explains the role of what he calls the \"wealth defense industry\" and how it contributes to growing inequalities in political participation.","meta_description":"Jeffery Winters, author of \"The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy,\" joins Roger and Kevin to discuss how a small, wealthy elite exerts outs…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3100,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mountain-money-11581/episodes/who-really-holds-the-power-democracy-s-blind-spot/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mountain-money-11581/who-really-holds-the-power-democracy-s-blind-spot.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}