{"podcast":{"title":"Test Pattern","slug":"test-pattern-7716775","podcast_index_feed_id":7716775,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6994ecf1c208b1a93139e348","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/test-pattern","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6994ecf1c208b1a93139e348/1771805608099-6f0c6c05-8f1c-4a22-b868-d593077ddd7a.jpeg","author":"Test Pattern","episode_count":11,"summary":"Test Pattern is a podcast about movies and our relationship with them, hosted by Angus Truskett. Conversations about the films that shape us — first watches, deep cuts, lifelong obsessions, and the ones we build our personalities around. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T10:20:10.654705+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/test-pattern-7716775"},"episode":{"title":"Alister Newstead","slug":"alister-newstead","published_at":"2026-03-31T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/test-pattern-7716775/alister-newstead","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/test-pattern-7716775","url":"https://shows.acast.com/test-pattern/episodes/69cb8789e8519e977f38c3ad","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6994ecf1c208b1a93139e348/e/69cb8789e8519e977f38c3ad/media.mp3","summary":"Alister Newstead — author of the new 33⅓ Oceania book on Tame Impala's Currents and Double J’s music & pop culture reporter — joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about whether we’re living in a golden age of culture, perfect needle drops, and the work of late Australian animation pioneer Yoram Gross. We get into: switching into author mode, fandom and accessibility, the “golden age” question, Safdie face, Oscar snubs, Timmy talk, Park Chan-wook, Akira as gateway anime, a Yoram Gross reappraisal, scores vs soundtracks, biopics vs music documentaries, whether any movie tie-in games are actually good, newsroom genre kink, “getting” Fight Club, Quentin Tarantino’s 10-film limit, catching up on Titanic, Mad God makes TOOL look like Disney, the Pringles curve, and whether Hideo Kojima should make a movie. Music by Gab Strum . Find Alister on Instagram . Buy Tame Impala's Currents 33 1/3 Oceania by Alister Newstead . @testpatternpresents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Alister Newstead — author of the new 33⅓ Oceania book on Tame Impala's Currents and Double J’s music & pop culture reporter — joins Angus Tr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7633,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/test-pattern-7716775/episodes/alister-newstead/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/test-pattern-7716775/alister-newstead.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}