{"podcast":{"title":"The Road to Now","slug":"the-road-to-now-1065183","podcast_index_feed_id":1065183,"rss_url":"https://roadtonow.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.theroadtonow.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/4/8/2/84823a80490190e9/RTN_Logo_Season_2.jpg","author":"Benjamin Sawyer","episode_count":460,"summary":"Bob Crawford (The Avett Brothers) & Dr. Ben Sawyer (MTSU History) share conversations with great thinkers from a variety of backgrounds – historians, artists, legal scholars, political figures and more –who help us uncover the many roads that run between past and present. For more information, visit TheRoadToNow.com If you'd like to support our work, join us on Patreon: Patreon.com/TheRoadToNow","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T12:20:49.072601+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-road-to-now-1065183"},"episode":{"title":"#359 Slippery Roads w/ Ben & Bob","slug":"359-slippery-roads-w-ben-bob","published_at":"2026-02-09T11:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-road-to-now-1065183/359-slippery-roads-w-ben-bob","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-road-to-now-1065183","url":"https://rtnpod.me/listen","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/roadtonow/359_feed.mp3?dest-id=384142","summary":"Having recently been hit with winter storms, Ben & Bob catch up to talk about the literal and figurative slippery roads all around us. The conversation covers talking politics when we don't agree, the Epstein files and more. We also talk about one of the more exciting events on the horizon: Bob's new book, America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick, which drops on March 10! Make sure to check out the book page at the Zando site and preorder your copy! This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.","meta_description":"Having recently been hit with winter storms, Ben & Bob catch up to talk about the literal and figurative slippery roads all around us. The conversation co…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3336,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-road-to-now-1065183/episodes/359-slippery-roads-w-ben-bob/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-road-to-now-1065183/359-slippery-roads-w-ben-bob.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}