{"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":"BookCast, Vol. 1","slug":"bookcast-vol-1","published_at":"2025-10-03T17:04:59+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734/bookcast-vol-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734","url":"https://racketmn.com","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66e37617547e9546dfc561ed/e/68e0023a965488b63ae44540/media.mp3","summary":"Sometimes, when you're a tiny media outlet with a biweekly podcast, several interview requests fall through and you're left with... three microphones and an hour to fill. And nobody can accuse us of not filling it!  Inspired by a dictionary's tweet , Jay, Em, and Keith gathered for the first installment of BookCast, where we go 'round the horn to talk about—you guessed it—those papery, flippable lil devices we love. But first! Here are the stories we gabbed about during What I Learned In Racket... ‘Call It the Clown Car’: An Oral History of Minneapolis’s 35-Candidate 2013 Mayoral Election ‘Only Ugly Guys’ Is More Beautiful Than You’d Expect  &  Black Scholars, Trans Ancestors, and Video Games: ‘I Promise to Burn Forever’ Challenges Visitors to Remember And here are the books we plugged... Rejection  by Tony Tulathimutte Into the Bright Sunshine :  Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights  by Samuel G. Freedman In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired Moby Dick  by Nathaniel Philbrick The Book of Love  by Kelly Link Intermezzo  by Sally Rooney The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism  by Adam Nagourney Headshot  by Rita Bullwinkel Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets  by Svetlana Alexievich It  by Stephen King This episode of  RacketCast  is brought to you by   TPT's  You Are Here: Wicked Minnehaha . 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 abo…","meta_description":"Sometimes, when you're a tiny media outlet with a biweekly podcast, several interview requests fall through and you're left with... three microphones and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3389,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/racketcast-7015734/episodes/bookcast-vol-1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/racketcast-7015734/bookcast-vol-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}