{"podcast":{"title":"The Never Stop Learning Podcast","slug":"the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213","podcast_index_feed_id":7776213,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/20260320_100327_648d3e6c6b2ee18c8e24691d53de7e6c.png","author":"The Never Stop Learning Team","episode_count":36,"summary":"Never Stop Learning Podcasts is an investigative learning audio library for curious minds. Each episode is a long-form deep dive designed to take you through a topic from beginning to end—exploring the foundations, the mechanics, the tensions, and the bigger picture in a clear, structured way. The show begins with our own curiosity. We choose the subjects, shape the questions, and follow the threads we want to understand more deeply. From there, we use AI as part of the creative process to help organize ideas, build the narrative, and turn that exploration into a coherent long-form story. The final audio is then created using Google LM to make each deep dive practical to listen to while walking, driving, or moving through everyday life. This show is not built to hand you an answer or tell you what to think. It exists to help frame complex topics more clearly, deepen understanding, and leave you with a broader perspective than you had when you started. The goal is to satisfy curiosity, explore ideas honestly, and help listeners understand the full picture in a world that usually stops at the headline.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T04:19:47.286814+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213"},"episode":{"title":"Oil: The History, the Economics, and the Business","slug":"oil-the-history-the-economics-and-the-business","published_at":"2026-04-07T01:06:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/oil-the-history-the-economics-and-the-business","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2695409","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/378947/2695409/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2026_04_07_01_05_57_604523cb-252d-4912-80c7-674914c0e3b5.mp3","summary":"Oil: Why does gasoline feel so confusing to price, even in a country that produces more oil than it consumes? In this episode, The Never Stop Learning Podcast takes a deep, structured look at oil as a global commodity and follows the full system that connects underground geology to the price on the station sign. The episode explores the difference between reserves, production, and consumption, why the United States still imports crude despite record output, how refinery design shapes trade flows, and why oil is never just one simple market. From Saudi spare capacity and U.S. shale decline curves to crack spreads, tanker routes, futures markets, contango, backwardation, and the “rockets and feathers” behavior of gas prices, this deep dive helps frame the real mechanics behind one of the world’s most important and misunderstood commodities. It also examines California as an extreme case study in how policy, refining constraints, logistics, and market fragility can all compound into unusually high prices at the pump.","meta_description":"Oil: Why does gasoline feel so confusing to price, even in a country that produces more oil than it consumes? In this episode, The Never Stop Learning Pod…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3962,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/episodes/oil-the-history-the-economics-and-the-business/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/oil-the-history-the-economics-and-the-business.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}