{"podcast":{"title":"Sleeping with Celebrities","slug":"sleeping-with-celebrities-6040543","podcast_index_feed_id":6040543,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/ebjiDp6h","website_url":"https://www.maximumfun.org/podcasts/sleeping-with-celebrities","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/0838eec6-85d9-4e04-824b-d59d3798a659/21d20fe2-3253-4fef-a1e2-1de63855db7c/3000x3000/sleeping-with-celebrities.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Maximum Fun","episode_count":208,"summary":"Getting to sleep can be difficult sometimes. Now you can achieve that urgently needed rest by taking advantage of our most precious natural resource: celebrities. Each week on the slyly humorous and reassuring Sleeping with Celebrities, host John Moe talks with a different guest from the world of entertainment about something they know a lot about. The conversation is guaranteed to be just interesting enough to draw your attention away from your own swirling anxieties but never interesting enough to keep you awake. No startling revelations, no dramatic screaming confrontations, but plenty of low-key dialogue, intricately laced deadpan comedy, and a ticket to dreamland.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T16:18:55.267398+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleeping-with-celebrities-6040543"},"episode":{"title":"Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa and NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben Talking Field of Dreams","slug":"is-this-heaven-no-it-s-iowa-and-npr-s-danielle-kurtzleben-talking-field-of-dreams","published_at":"2026-06-17T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleeping-with-celebrities-6040543/is-this-heaven-no-it-s-iowa-and-npr-s-danielle-kurtzleben-talking-field-of-dreams","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleeping-with-celebrities-6040543","url":"https://www.maximumfun.org/podcasts/sleeping-with-celebrities","audio_url":"https://afp-9384.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/f0e4476d-3ac9-477a-9c63-2fcc05183b2b/episodes/880d0b4c-779c-45f9-9971-462cb3ccba44/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=f0e4476d-3ac9-477a-9c63-2fcc05183b2b&awEpisodeId=880d0b4c-779c-45f9-9971-462cb3ccba44&feed=ebjiDp6h","summary":"We have to imagine that the life of an NPR White House Correspondent does not consistently feel relaxed, homey, sentimental, and warm. But you know what does? Field of Dreams, the 1989 Kevin Costner movie about an Iowa farmer with a field overrun by baseball ghosts. Danielle Kurtzleben, a White House Correspondent for NPR, is from Titonka, Iowa (population 491) and has probably seen the movie eleventy squillion times. She can quote large portions of the dialogue and proved it in our interview by reciting James Earl Jones’ “They will come” monologue in her most sonorous NPR voice. You’ll be asleep soon. By the way, do baseball ghosts sleep? Are there bunk beds out in the corn fields? Am I overthinking this?","meta_description":"We have to imagine that the life of an NPR White House Correspondent does not consistently feel relaxed, homey, sentimental, and warm. But you know what d…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2339,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sleeping-with-celebrities-6040543/episodes/is-this-heaven-no-it-s-iowa-and-npr-s-danielle-kurtzleben-talking-field-of-dreams/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleeping-with-celebrities-6040543/is-this-heaven-no-it-s-iowa-and-npr-s-danielle-kurtzleben-talking-field-of-dreams.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}