{"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":"Mindboggling! celebrating $30 billion on sub sheds (not actual subs), while leaders outdo One Nation's darker instincts","slug":"mindboggling-celebrating-30-billion-on-sub-sheds-not-actual-subs-while-leaders-outdo-one-nation-s-darker-instincts","published_at":"2026-02-19T06:35:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/mindboggling-celebrating-30-billion-on-sub-sheds-not-actual-subs-while-leaders-outdo-one-nation-s-darker-instincts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists/2559964","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/228146/2559964/the-grumpy-strategists/2026_02_19_07_00_43_68bc1d77-a017-432c-89a2-d9abb8e87c81.mp3","summary":"The Grumpy Strategists boggle at the sheer chutzpah of PM Albanese and State Premier Malinauskas announcing as a triumph spending $30 billion & taking until 2040 to build submarine construction sheds (not actual submarines). At least the premier had the honesty to say the biggest beneficiaries weren't Australians worried about security, they were the South Australians who are to receive this firehose of taxpayer cash. He's right to be boggled. Meanwhile, Australia's leaders across the spectrum from Labor, through the Coalition into One Nation land are outdoing each other in expressing their fear about the potential return of 34 women and children from camps in Syria, while clamping down on the evil of immigration. It's bad form to notice that our health system - and many other industries - depend on migrants....","meta_description":"The Grumpy Strategists boggle at the sheer chutzpah of PM Albanese and State Premier Malinauskas announcing as a triumph spending $30 billion & taking…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2281,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grumpy-strategists-6607649/episodes/mindboggling-celebrating-30-billion-on-sub-sheds-not-actual-subs-while-leaders-outdo-one-nation-s-darker-instincts/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/mindboggling-celebrating-30-billion-on-sub-sheds-not-actual-subs-while-leaders-outdo-one-nation-s-darker-instincts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}