{"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":"The Business of Higher Education Debt, Prestige, Tuition, and the Long Reckoning","slug":"the-business-of-higher-education-debt-prestige-tuition-and-the-long-reckoning","published_at":"2026-05-19T12:56:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/the-business-of-higher-education-debt-prestige-tuition-and-the-long-reckoning","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2819965","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/378947/2819965/the-never-stop-learning-podcast/2026_05_13_13_48_24_3020b212-0792-4939-9789-b0b415ca60fb.mp3","summary":"The Business of Higher Education Debt, Prestige, Tuition, and the Long Reckoning. ..A deep dive into the business of American higher education: why college became so expensive, how student debt helped finance the modern university, what students actually received for the rising price, and whether the labor market still delivers enough value to justify the cost. This episode follows the money from tuition and federal loans to campus expansion, graduate degrees, prestige competition, administrative growth, and borrower stress. The argument is not that college is worthless. It is that the old bargain — borrow now because education will pay later — has become far more complicated, uneven, and expensive than families were led to believe.","meta_description":"The Business of Higher Education Debt, Prestige, Tuition, and the Long Reckoning. ..A deep dive into the business of American higher education: why colleg…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2770,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-never-stop-learning-podcast-7776213/episodes/the-business-of-higher-education-debt-prestige-tuition-and-the-long-reckoning/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/the-business-of-higher-education-debt-prestige-tuition-and-the-long-reckoning.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}