{"podcast":{"title":"The Kicker","slug":"the-kicker-1113064","podcast_index_feed_id":1113064,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2346292.rss","website_url":"http://www.cjr.org","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/g8i97czodo9aczzor02zd3tzf6j3?.jpg","author":"Columbia Journalism Review","episode_count":332,"summary":"The Kicker is a podcast on the media and the world today. It comes out twice a month, hosted by Megan Greenwell and produced by Amanda Darrach for the Columbia Journalism Review . It is available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T18:19:24.846162+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-kicker-1113064"},"episode":{"title":"Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros","slug":"douglas-rushkoff-on-being-the-intellectual-dominatrix-of-billionaire-tech-bros","published_at":"2025-11-25T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-kicker-1113064/douglas-rushkoff-on-being-the-intellectual-dominatrix-of-billionaire-tech-bros","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-kicker-1113064","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2346292/episodes/18253063-douglas-rushkoff-on-being-the-intellectual-dominatrix-of-billionaire-tech-bros.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2346292/episodes/18253063-douglas-rushkoff-on-being-the-intellectual-dominatrix-of-billionaire-tech-bros.mp3","summary":"In 1992, a writer named Douglas Rushkoff signed a contract for Cyberia, his book about the internet subcultures of the West Coast. The next year, his publisher canceled it, according to Rushkoff’s recollection, on the grounds that “by the time the book came out the Internet was going to be over.” (He later found a different publisher, and the book came out in 1994.) Since then, Rushkoff has been one of the most entertaining and pointed futurists (though he prefers “presentist” these days) chr...","meta_description":"In 1992, a writer named Douglas Rushkoff signed a contract for Cyberia, his book about the internet subcultures of the West Coast. The next year, his publ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3925,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-kicker-1113064/episodes/douglas-rushkoff-on-being-the-intellectual-dominatrix-of-billionaire-tech-bros/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-kicker-1113064/douglas-rushkoff-on-being-the-intellectual-dominatrix-of-billionaire-tech-bros.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}