{"podcast":{"title":"The BradCast w/ Brad Friedman","slug":"the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman-1088547","podcast_index_feed_id":1088547,"rss_url":"https://bradblog.com/podcastgen/bradcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://bradcast.bradblog.com","image_url":"https://bradblog.com/podcastgen/bradcast/images/itunes_image.jpg","author":"Brad Friedman","episode_count":2980,"summary":"Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated daily coast-to-coast and around the globe!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T12:18:05.076359+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman-1088547"},"episode":{"title":"'BradCast' 5/15/2026 (Encore: Billionaires Spending Millions to Lie to Voters About CA's Proposed, One-Time Billionaires Tax, with Harold Meyerson of 'The Prospect')","slug":"bradcast-5-15-2026-encore-billionaires-spending-millions-to-lie-to-voters-about-ca-s-proposed-one-time-billionaires-tax-with-harold-meyerson-of-the-prospect","published_at":"2026-05-15T23:52:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman-1088547/bradcast-5-15-2026-encore-billionaires-spending-millions-to-lie-to-voters-about-ca-s-proposed-one-time-billionaires-tax-with-harold-meyerson-of-the-prospect","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman-1088547","url":"https://BradBlog.com/audio/BradCast_Encore_BradFriedman_WarUpdate_HaroldMeyerson-BillionaireTaxCA_PostCallaisRedistricting-LateBallotsCA_051526.mp3","audio_url":"https://BradBlog.com/audio/BradCast_Encore_BradFriedman_WarUpdate_HaroldMeyerson-BillionaireTaxCA_PostCallaisRedistricting-LateBallotsCA_051526.mp3","summary":"Encore: original airdate 5-4-2026. On today's 'BradCast': Oil and gas prices continue rising as Donald Trump's War on Iran remains unresolved. The Trump Administration ignored the 60-day deadline to seek congressional approval for the Iran War. After several states recently enacted wealth taxes on millionaires, a proposed initiative in California to levy a one-time wealth tax on the state's billionaires has qualified for the November ballot. But Google co-founder Sergey Brin and fellow billionaires are funding a wildly misleading, opposing measure to negate it. The American Prospect's HAROLD MEYERSON explains how wealth taxes work, who benefits, pros and cons, and much more. GOP-controlled states moved quickly to eliminate majority-Black districts from their U.S. House maps after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Plus a warning for California voters about late-arriving mail-in ballots.","meta_description":"Encore: original airdate 5-4-2026. On today's 'BradCast': Oil and gas prices continue rising as Donald Trump's War on Iran remains unresolved. The Trump A…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3453,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman-1088547/episodes/bradcast-5-15-2026-encore-billionaires-spending-millions-to-lie-to-voters-about-ca-s-proposed-one-time-billionaires-tax-with-harold-meyerson-of-the-prospect/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman-1088547/bradcast-5-15-2026-encore-billionaires-spending-millions-to-lie-to-voters-about-ca-s-proposed-one-time-billionaires-tax-with-harold-meyerson-of-the-prospect.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}