{"podcast":{"title":"The Old School","slug":"the-old-school-3916563","podcast_index_feed_id":3916563,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-old-school","website_url":"https://aharteducation.com/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yuj9GYTiKVf10YiaZWweox1fBk3eEee6xPAIvoCBw20/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE4MTMyLzE2MTY3/Njc3NjQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Steven J. Bourgeois, PhD","episode_count":161,"summary":"Dr. Steven Bourgeois and Mr. Ross Miller lead an informal discussion between a current and a former teacher on topics that challenge \"best practices\" in contemporary education. In keeping with Neil Postman (1979), we support the conserving function of education: “Its aim at all times is to make visible the prevailing biases of a culture and then, by employing whatever philosophies of education are available, to oppose them.”","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T06:18:53.003072+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 144: On Midlife Crises","slug":"episode-144-on-midlife-crises","published_at":"2026-01-20T02:51:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-144-on-midlife-crises","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/b12ddf2a","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/b12ddf2a/48aea719.mp3","summary":"Your two favorite podcast hosts tackle one of the touchiest subject they've ever discussed - a midlife crisis. In the course of the discussion, there is a great deal of digging into the myths associated with these phases of life, the symptoms and the extent of this condition. Much of what people know is a distortion created by media but the psychological evidence paints a different picture and the hosts will try to, in the modern parlance, unpack it.","meta_description":"Your two favorite podcast hosts tackle one of the touchiest subject they've ever discussed - a midlife crisis. In the course of the discussion, there is a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3165,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-old-school-3916563/episodes/episode-144-on-midlife-crises/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-144-on-midlife-crises.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}