{"podcast":{"title":"The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski","slug":"the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-7041700","podcast_index_feed_id":7041700,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6211048/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski--6211048","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/f83dcb84278d17f0d93fb0a890241367.jpg","author":"Steven Sirski","episode_count":1000,"summary":"The daily musings of an expat in Beijing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T00:19:39.960493+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-7041700"},"episode":{"title":"SSAB - July 16, 2026","slug":"ssab-july-16-2026","published_at":"2026-07-16T09:33:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-7041700/ssab-july-16-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-7041700","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ssab-july-16-2026--73013132","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73013132/9aa3fc95_55b6_46a9_96c9_f487d3c975e7.mp3","summary":"Flight moved! The price increases seem to be a system feature, not a flaw! Blocking people from trying to shimmy the tickets, or something like that. Tuesday is departure day, am I ready? What will I do? Stuff a goin bye bye! Stamps, keyboards, and postcards. What’s next? Books? Speaking of going bye bye, the shout at 5am must’ve been… Argentina scoring. Bye bye England! Did NOT get up for the game but watched the highlights. England was up 1 until the 85th minute and then… Argentina scores. Then they scored in extra time. Wow. I guess the guy upstairs is an Argentina fan. Trump coin a go go! Only dead presidents may preside? But Trump has recently talked about being number one on the hit list. Is this foreshadowing? Steve, it ain’t you, it’s the SanFu! The hottest time of the year, no wonder you’re feeling a little low down. Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA ***Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com And on Notion: https://stevensirski.notion.site/SSAB-The-Audio-Blog-of-Steven-Sirski-00acfe344e164bfab191d3cddf6952b2?pvs=4 Newsletter over at stevensirski.substack.com Language vlog on http://www.youtube.com/@stevenslanguagevlog Google Stock Tracker Sheethttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kbpCC2cieuq23zYyr0-WznPRogVX0aS86BF4_vPvgMY/edit?usp=sharing Stay cool out there! 00:00 Flight Change Drama00:30 Air Canada Pricing Tricks04:22 Red Eye Route Plans06:22 Not Ready Yet09:08 Stamps And Postcards14:45 Stamp Collector Notes17:43 Decluttering Before Leaving18:38 Bye Bye England23:49 World Cup Schedule Talk25:22 Trump Coin Rumors28:30 Intel Agency Theories36:56 Sanfu Summer Slump39:13 Wrap Up And Links","meta_description":"Flight moved! The price increases seem to be a system feature, not a flaw! Blocking people from trying to shimmy the tickets, or something like that. Tues…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2417,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-7041700/episodes/ssab-july-16-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-7041700/ssab-july-16-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}