{"podcast":{"title":"RacketCast","slug":"racketcast-7015734","podcast_index_feed_id":7015734,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66e37617547e9546dfc561ed","website_url":"https://racketmn.com","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1726182892345-5e16c0b2-7e89-4f4a-a132-2e8c4cacc4f7.jpeg","author":"Racket","episode_count":57,"summary":"Bi-weekly podcast from Racket, the Twin Cities news/arts/culture publication. Featuring hyper-local recaps, reviews, interviews, debates, hot takes, and more from the crew behind your favorite reader-funded, worker-owned media org. Want to advertise on RacketCast ? Email us at advertise@racketmn.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T18:19:17.550217+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734"},"episode":{"title":"Avoiding Death, Getting Weirder, Releasing Memoirs Feat. Mary Lucia","slug":"avoiding-death-getting-weirder-releasing-memoirs-feat-mary-lucia","published_at":"2025-11-28T15:40:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734/avoiding-death-getting-weirder-releasing-memoirs-feat-mary-lucia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734","url":"https://racketmn.com","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66e37617547e9546dfc561ed/e/6929bb8b3bcb8b52549b1e3c/media.mp3","summary":"Wishing you and yours a joyous and spiritually fulfilling Black Friday. Make sure your frenzied consumerism arrives at  What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To , the brand-new memoir from Mary Lucia. The longtime Twin Cities DJ stopped by Racket HQ to talk about her book, and my goodness did we enjoy a long, fascinating conversation about Lucia helping launch REV105, becoming the drive-time star at 89.3 the Current, and enduring a stalker who turned three years of her life into a waking nightmare. These days, Looch is teaching the youth how to do radio at  our favorite frequency , Radio K. (Editor's note: We're experimenting with new recording software, which slightly fucked up the intro recording quality... skip to the 25-minute mark to hear the Lucia interview in pristine sound.) Catch two, count 'em  two , upcoming  What Doesn't Kill Me  release parties—December 9 at the Granada Theater with past  RacketCast  guest Lizz Winstead (more info  here ) and December 10 at the Landmark Center with Andrea Swensson (more info  here ). Before all that, we field reader voicemails for  Turkey of the Year  snubs and, of course, conduct another thrilling installment of What I Learned In Racket. Subscribe  to  RacketCast  wherever you get your podcasts—Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, etc.  •  Wanna  advertise  on  RacketCast ? Email us at  advertise@racketmn.com .  •  Have a food/drink, event, or show recommendation? How about a civic hot take? General or specific question?  Call 619-RACKTIP  (619-722-5847) with your first name + city + 3-min.-maximum voicemail, and we might play it on a future episode.  •  Special thanks to…","meta_description":"Wishing you and yours a joyous and spiritually fulfilling Black Friday. Make sure your frenzied consumerism arrives at What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4697,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/racketcast-7015734/episodes/avoiding-death-getting-weirder-releasing-memoirs-feat-mary-lucia/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734/avoiding-death-getting-weirder-releasing-memoirs-feat-mary-lucia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}