{"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":"Rare Earths: The Hidden Materials Behind Modern Power","slug":"rare-earths-the-hidden-materials-behind-modern-power","published_at":"2026-05-25T16:53:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/rare-earths-the-hidden-materials-behind-modern-power","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2856359","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/378947/2856359/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2026_05_25_16_47_20_7ac64a98-adcb-460a-91a1-f13e6189c496.mp3","summary":"Rare Earths: The Hidden Materials Behind Modern Power. ..In this deep dive, we investigate rare earth materials from the ground up: what they are, which elements matter most, where they are found, and why they sit at the center of modern technology, defense, clean energy, and industrial power. From electric vehicles and wind turbines to drones, missiles, smartphones, and high-performance motors, rare earths reveal a hard truth about the modern economy: the most advanced systems still depend on mining, chemistry, processing, metallurgy, and manufacturing capacity. This episode looks beyond the headlines about China’s dominance and asks a practical U.S. question: what does America actually have, what is it missing, and how long would it realistically take to build a secure rare earth supply chain of its own?","meta_description":"Rare Earths: The Hidden Materials Behind Modern Power. ..In this deep dive, we investigate rare earth materials from the ground up: what they are, which e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3480,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/episodes/rare-earths-the-hidden-materials-behind-modern-power/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/rare-earths-the-hidden-materials-behind-modern-power.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}