{"podcast":{"title":"The Grumpy Strategists","slug":"the-grumpy-strategists-6607649","podcast_index_feed_id":6607649,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-grumpy-strategists/feed.xml","website_url":"https://strategicanalysis.org/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-grumpy-strategists/20230911_060948_e3b12350ef3f1b0224fb0fffc1f3fca8.jpg","author":"Strategic Analysis Australia","episode_count":85,"summary":"The Grumpy Strategists chat about defence and security issues, from an Australian perspective. We say simple things about complicated issues that help cut through the politics and careful bureaucratic talking points. Critical but constructive conversations about the big security and technology issues affecting our world. RSSVERIFY","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T08:17:01.603987+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649"},"episode":{"title":"Iran War: bad guys, rose petals and donuts - Trump tries for the Big Maduro","slug":"iran-war-bad-guys-rose-petals-and-donuts-trump-tries-for-the-big-maduro","published_at":"2026-03-04T06:23:31+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/iran-war-bad-guys-rose-petals-and-donuts-trump-tries-for-the-big-maduro","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists/2599539","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/228146/2599539/the-grumpy-strategists/2026_03_04_06_20_18_8cd17463-8e04-446e-88fc-3f7a0dce58b7.mp3","summary":"Marcus and Michael reflect on their wisdom in modifying the Grumpies bunker to hold thousands of litres of diesel and 8 pallets of tinned tomatoes, as the war escalates in the Middle East. They set out three scenarios for the outcome and only one of them - the least likely (spoiler, it involves rose petals and cheering crowds)- is good. Then it's on to examine the desperate contortions of US allies - notably the UK's Keir Starmer and our own PM Albanese, and ministers Marles and Wong - to avoid thinking or talking about our major ally assassinating foreign governments as a new normal. It turns out assassinating people is okay if they are 'bad guys'. And, luckily, we were kept in the dark until afterwards. Phew.","meta_description":"Marcus and Michael reflect on their wisdom in modifying the Grumpies bunker to hold thousands of litres of diesel and 8 pallets of tinned tomatoes, as the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2601,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/episodes/iran-war-bad-guys-rose-petals-and-donuts-trump-tries-for-the-big-maduro/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/iran-war-bad-guys-rose-petals-and-donuts-trump-tries-for-the-big-maduro.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}