{"podcast":{"title":"The Signal Sitdown","slug":"the-signal-sitdown-7035152","podcast_index_feed_id":7035152,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/thesignalsitdown","website_url":"https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/4227b3d8-7f49-11ef-a171-cb59231b37be/image/8e383abb3ce76f25b50e54fc92ada658.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Daily Signal","episode_count":87,"summary":"Your government is out of control. It’s doing things it has no business doing. It spends way too much money. It gets involved in way too many wars. It not only tells you what you can and can’t say—it actively censors you. And the things your government should do, it can’t, or won’t, do at all. It can’t keep your streets clean of crime and filth. It can’t keep your neighborhoods safe enough for kids to play outside. It can’t even prevent your country from being invaded by millions of illegal migrants. Why is that? Because your leaders no longer represent you. They represent themselves and their friends. On each episode of \"The Signal Sitdown,\" politics editor Bradley Devlin exposes how the sausage really gets made in Washington, D.C. with the help of guests who have experience on the inside. \"The Signal Sitdown\" takes you inside the biggest battles in Washington, D.C., as they happen. We’ll analyze the policymaking process from an unabashedly and unapologetically conservative perspective and together reclaim government from the self-serving elites. Fingers will be pointed. Names will be named.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T18:19:45.185196+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-signal-sitdown-7035152"},"episode":{"title":"A Radical Plan to Save Detroit and Restoring the Rust Belt | Rodney Lockwood","slug":"a-radical-plan-to-save-detroit-and-restoring-the-rust-belt-rodney-lockwood","published_at":"2026-03-05T10:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-signal-sitdown-7035152/a-radical-plan-to-save-detroit-and-restoring-the-rust-belt-rodney-lockwood","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-signal-sitdown-7035152","url":"https://www.dailysignal.com/","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THEDAILYSIGNAL2080939655.mp3?updated=1778539122","summary":"Detroit has become the poster child of American decline and for good reason: No city in what is now known as the Rust Belt experienced such soaring highs and such abysmal lows. In the 1950s, Detroit was the wealthiest city in America. By 2014, just one year after the city declared bankruptcy, Detroit was considered the poorest city in America. Detroit is starting to show signs of comeback by courting large investments from some of the companies who brought Detroit to its zenith, such as the Ford Motor Company, and balancing the city’s checkbook. But plenty of problems persist, and the whiplash has left policymakers and every day Americans asking what happened, and what is the way back for cities like Detroit. Rodney Lockwood is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy with a business background in real estate. Lockwood joins “The Signal Sitdown” this week to help unpack Detroit’s collapse, the beginnings of its recovery, and share his bold plan to revitalize a forgotten part of the city. “I think Detroit is probably the most prime example,” of the Rust Belt’s collapse, Lockwood told The Daily Signal, “because other cities have not suffered as much as Detroit.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Detroit has become the poster child of American decline and for good reason: No city in what is now known as the Rust Belt experienced such soaring highs…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2699,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-signal-sitdown-7035152/episodes/a-radical-plan-to-save-detroit-and-restoring-the-rust-belt-rodney-lockwood/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-signal-sitdown-7035152/a-radical-plan-to-save-detroit-and-restoring-the-rust-belt-rodney-lockwood.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}