{"podcast":{"title":"The Blue Collar Scholar","slug":"the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458","podcast_index_feed_id":5584458,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/XAYHUsKl","website_url":"https://the-blue-collar-scholar.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/62dba346-87c2-4896-99a0-8910ee2f9f79/fd5244fc-d0e2-4e2b-a6e6-27892d67390a/3000x3000/ea6732da-855c-4167-819f-7ae16b1f6e01.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Will Reitz","episode_count":376,"summary":"This podcast will cover the topics covered by the history lectures, sermons, and Bible/theology studies of Will Reitz.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T20:17:37.914753+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458"},"episode":{"title":"WWII, episode 16: The Cold War","slug":"wwii-episode-16-the-cold-war","published_at":"2026-05-19T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458/wwii-episode-16-the-cold-war","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458","url":"https://the-blue-collar-scholar.simplecast.com/episodes/wwii-episode-16-the-cold-war-w5HqsDg8","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/0629b599-6b9f-45a8-910c-a58b113af6d4/9547d0c6-f239-43ae-b10f-f2b66bd3573b/episodes/audio/group/4ec1ee39-f60a-4263-963a-4e715666a859/group-item/df640d0a-6eff-4553-bc18-8d9fcba06e05/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=XAYHUsKl","summary":"For the second time, The Blue Collar Scholar completes a course on the Second World War. The first attempt was choppy, and I failed to record every episode. This go round, I feel much more confident that this series is a good, surface-level-yet-deep-dive into the bloodiest conflict in human history. ... In this last episode of the WWII class, we talk about the sequel to World War II. Thankfully, that has not been World War III. Instead, the United States and the Soviet Union spent nearly a half century in an intense, will-they-won't-they \"Cold War.\" But even though the Cold War never became a hot war, it was still extremely eventful. This episode does a criminally-brief overview of the entire Cold War.","meta_description":"For the second time, The Blue Collar Scholar completes a course on the Second World War. The first attempt was choppy, and I failed to record every episod…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6267,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458/episodes/wwii-episode-16-the-cold-war/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458/wwii-episode-16-the-cold-war.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}