{"podcast":{"title":"Octothorpe","slug":"octothorpe-720975","podcast_index_feed_id":720975,"rss_url":"https://octothorpe.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://octothorpe.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/709677/Artwork.png","author":"John Coxon, Alison Scott, Liz Batty","episode_count":100,"summary":"A Hugo Award-winning podcast about science fiction and SF fandom from John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T00:19:13.497313+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/octothorpe-720975"},"episode":{"title":"157: Moist or Shiny?","slug":"157-moist-or-shiny","published_at":"2026-04-09T16:17:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/octothorpe-720975/157-moist-or-shiny","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/octothorpe-720975","url":"https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/157-moist-or-shiny/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/76mwtwr88mm2xyt3/Octothorpe_157.mp3","summary":"John is gaming, Alison is a pirate, and Claudia is dancing. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: It’s a live recording! Also, we say the words “dicks” and “moist” a lot; sorry about that. Claudia Rapp: Website Bluesky Facebook Instagram The Hay lecturer was Tasha Phillips, and the lecture was “Stranger than Fiction: Creatures of the Deep” John was wrong about that sketch, it was on the radio and is also on YouTube Eurocon 2026: Metropol Con 2026 in Berlin, Germany Gamma Rats Die Leere im Kern deiner Hoffnung Worldcon 2028: Bid for Nuremberg, Germany Worldcon 2028: Bid for Brisbane, Australia Picks John: World on a Wire/Welt am Dracht Alison: The Eastercon Business Meeting Claudia: Lyneham by Nils Westerboer Athos 2643 by Nils Westerboer A movie is underway! Credits Cover art: “Best panel confirmed” by Simon Bubb Alt text: A picture of John, Alison and Claudia sitting behind the panel tables during the live recording. A thread from the convention Discord is being projected onto the screen behind them, with messages reading “Malcolm H: Song for Alison… Da Da Da”, “Roseanna: We’ve passed the discord comment count for the highest other item!! Best panel confirmed [rocket emoji]”, “Meg MacDonald: Teach us your wisdom”, “Frances Dowd: Drink drink drink your Heineken, oodles and oodles for everyone!”. Words have been added to the top reading “Octothorpe 157” and to the bottom reading ‘Live from Iridescence: “Best panel confirmed”’. Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)","meta_description":"John is gaming, Alison is a pirate, and Claudia is dancing. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comm…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3454,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/octothorpe-720975/episodes/157-moist-or-shiny/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/octothorpe-720975/157-moist-or-shiny.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}