{"podcast":{"title":"The Back Room with Andy Ostroy","slug":"the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395","podcast_index_feed_id":5638395,"rss_url":"https://media.zencast.fm/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy/rss","website_url":"https://the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy.podcast.radiofreerhinecliff.org","image_url":"https://podcdn.zencast.fm/download/Podcast%2Fartworks%2F10316%2Flarge%2Fd96691adc1075ab252791855d22902fe070a56106b6a1a6cb38d64aad906f0a8%2F72875a20c9335ce6.jpg","author":"Radio Free Rhinecliff and Andy Ostroy","episode_count":525,"summary":"The Back Room with Andy Ostroy presents a humorous, honest take on politics and pop culture featuring notable guest interviews, a shit-ton of righteous indignation, and rip-roaring repartee with co-producers Matty Rosenberg and Jen Hammoud. We're havin' a ball, and so will you! Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Music by Andrew Hollander Design by Cricket Lengyel","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T12:17:09.795662+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395"},"episode":{"title":"Jonathan Vigliotti on his New Book Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.","slug":"jonathan-vigliotti-on-his-new-book-torched-how-a-city-was-left-to-burn-and-the-olympic-rush-to-rebuild-l-a","published_at":"2026-05-14T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395/jonathan-vigliotti-on-his-new-book-torched-how-a-city-was-left-to-burn-and-the-olympic-rush-to-rebuild-l-a","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395","url":"https://the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy.podcast.radiofreerhinecliff.org/episodes/jonathan-vigliotti-on-his-new-book-torched-how-a-city-was-left-to-burn-and-the-olympic-rush-to-rebuild-la","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.zencast.fm/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy/3c50561c-424c-48ed-920e-6637ecfa5a9c.mp3?source=feed","summary":"Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent whose work has appeared on numerous platforms including CBS Sunday Morning, Face the Nation, 48 Hours, and more. His reporting has taken him to more than forty countries and territories across six continents. He is the author of Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America, and his latest book, Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A., which went on sale this week. Jonathan discusses the origins of the devastating fires in Los Angeles in early 2025, how they could've and should've been avoided, and what the city must do going forward to prevent such a disaster from happening again. He also describes in harrowing detail his own real-time experience navigating through this nightmarish hellscape as he covered the fires. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel","meta_description":"Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent whose work has appeared on numerous platforms including C…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3133,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395/episodes/jonathan-vigliotti-on-his-new-book-torched-how-a-city-was-left-to-burn-and-the-olympic-rush-to-rebuild-l-a/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395/jonathan-vigliotti-on-his-new-book-torched-how-a-city-was-left-to-burn-and-the-olympic-rush-to-rebuild-l-a.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}