{"podcast":{"title":"The Playbook Podcast","slug":"the-playbook-podcast-53549","podcast_index_feed_id":53549,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ASD6963560714","website_url":"https://www.politico.com/podcasts/the-playbook-podcast","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/463771de-6478-11ef-a7d1-9f4dcaf602ec/image/271e518c48a6b99484ce39f62fe30d73.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"POLITICO","episode_count":2330,"summary":"POLITICO’s Dasha Burns bring her fresh insight, analysis and reporting to the stories driving the day in the nation’s capital. She will be joined by her fellow co-authors and journalists from across POLITICO — available, as always, in audio and video formats each morning.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T08:19:08.030816+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-playbook-podcast-53549"},"episode":{"title":"From Rome to the Oval Office to Tennessee","slug":"from-rome-to-the-oval-office-to-tennessee","published_at":"2026-05-07T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-playbook-podcast-53549/from-rome-to-the-oval-office-to-tennessee","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-playbook-podcast-53549","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL8369341935.mp3?updated=1778125678","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL8369341935.mp3?updated=1778125678","summary":"Marc Rubio is at the Vatican to smooth things over with Pope Leo XIV after weeks of tension with the White House. Playbook’s Dasha Burns and Jack Blanchard discuss the political importance of this meeting and what is really at stake. Meanwhile, Trump hosts Brazilian President Lula, who has been very critical of the Iran War, at the Oval Office. And Republicans are back to redrawing maps—this time in Tennessee—where they are threatening the state’s lone Democratic House seat.","meta_description":"Marc Rubio is at the Vatican to smooth things over with Pope Leo XIV after weeks of tension with the White House. Playbook’s Dasha Burns and Jack Blanchar…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":763,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-playbook-podcast-53549/episodes/from-rome-to-the-oval-office-to-tennessee/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-playbook-podcast-53549/from-rome-to-the-oval-office-to-tennessee.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}