{"podcast":{"title":"Swimmingpod","slug":"swimmingpod-1399267","podcast_index_feed_id":1399267,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/27bf0834/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.lxvswim.org","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/6568309/6568309-1596984866140-ff3e5da95a75b.jpg","author":"Stanley Ulijaszek","episode_count":77,"summary":"Swimming in the outdoors - lakes and lidos, rivers and oceans, especially the people that swim in them. Music - 'Noe Noe', 'Aeronaut', ' Vienna Beat', and 'Watercool Quiet', from Blue Dot Sessions.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T00:18:29.158070+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/swimmingpod-1399267"},"episode":{"title":"Shark Bait Swimming in Australia, with Tony Forbes and Col Ritchie","slug":"shark-bait-swimming-in-australia-with-tony-forbes-and-col-ritchie","published_at":"2025-05-30T18:28:53+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/swimmingpod-1399267/shark-bait-swimming-in-australia-with-tony-forbes-and-col-ritchie","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/swimmingpod-1399267","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stanley-ulijaszek/episodes/Shark-Bait-Swimming-in-Australia--with-Tony-Forbes-and-Col-Ritchie-e33j8ta","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/27bf0834/podcast/play/103440746/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-4-30%2F7e5be23d-fd29-5105-3406-f21179559847.mp3","summary":"Tony Forbes and Col Ritchie are regulars at the annual Pierto Pub ocean swim in Lorne, Victoria. This can be a fierce race, when swimming can be a contact sport. Notwithstanding this, this fearsome duo amount nearly a century and a half of life experience between them, and swimming enough Pier toPubs leads to the honour of receiving a shark bait award, two or more if you live long enough and/or you don’t get taken by a shark. Tony and Col take it seriously enough to train regularly in their local pool. Which is where I jointhem, one crisp Australian spring morning.","meta_description":"Tony Forbes and Col Ritchie are regulars at the annual Pierto Pub ocean swim in Lorne, Victoria. This can be a fierce race, when swimming can be a contact…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":624,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/swimmingpod-1399267/episodes/shark-bait-swimming-in-australia-with-tony-forbes-and-col-ritchie/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/swimmingpod-1399267/shark-bait-swimming-in-australia-with-tony-forbes-and-col-ritchie.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}