{"podcast":{"title":"Something Rather Than Nothing","slug":"something-rather-than-nothing-250011","podcast_index_feed_id":250011,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/4v4HyCc6.rss","website_url":"https://somethingratherthannothi.podview.com/","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/5fa83d79fd3045009269cc67/ea6fea22-9b99-40eb-a651-c493573c13d8.jpg","author":"kenvolante@icloud.com","episode_count":323,"summary":"Why is there something rather than nothing? This podcast is a philosophical and psychological exploration into the act of creation. Follow the paths to personal liberation, creativity, music, painting, deep thinking and the art of the intelligent conversation. ONE LOVE!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T02:17:27.809522+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/something-rather-than-nothing-250011"},"episode":{"title":"Darrin Doyle","slug":"darrin-doyle","published_at":"2026-01-27T21:57:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/something-rather-than-nothing-250011/darrin-doyle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/something-rather-than-nothing-250011","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/xEYvRfJ_","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/697934e4370bfd4f4a604d4b/size/48827379/audio-files/5fa83d79fd3045009269cc67/0d1e638f-64d6-4366-ad6f-71a443cbbb20.mp3","summary":"Darrin Doyle [https://www.darrindoyle.com/] was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He has worked as a paperboy, a janitor, a mover, a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesman, a Kinko's Copy Consultant, a porn store clerk, a pizza delivery guy, a prep cook, a magazine store clerk, a technical writer, a freelance newspaper writer, an English teacher in Japan, and finally, a professor and an author. Darrin has a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do and wishes he had stuck with it a little longer to get the danged black belt. Darrin hoards and plays lots of musical instruments: guitar, piano, drums, mandolin, banjo, bass, ukelele, and a diatonic 4-string stick dulcimer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshiDVafecI]. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and teaches at Central Michigan University. He knows what skeletons do.","meta_description":"Darrin Doyle [https://www.darrindoyle.com/] was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He has worked as a paperboy, a janitor, a mover, a telemarketer, a door-to-door…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2034,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/something-rather-than-nothing-250011/episodes/darrin-doyle/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/something-rather-than-nothing-250011/darrin-doyle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}