{"podcast":{"title":"The Stephen Mansfield Podcast","slug":"the-stephen-mansfield-podcast-478418","podcast_index_feed_id":478418,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/the-stephen-mansfield-podcast","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/the-stephen-mansfield-podcast","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/68/71/77/3b/6871773b-4e3e-48f2-a306-fe6f2af7d0cd/448946bf3cc5fb0f204945a0db3ab4dd771fcb0536c97d761e0c0be9ddee4c7563bdf0a04a4133ad12ea02fc4dfa2e8840c937cdc055ff8b1c2d198e18e9b9c3.jpeg","author":"The Stephen Mansfield Podcast","episode_count":612,"summary":"New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield (The Faith of George W. Bush, The Search for God and Guinness, Lincoln's Battle With God, Mansfield's Book of Manly Men, The Miracle of the Kurds) talks about today's cultural upheavals, trends and ironies, all while providing a fascinating look behind the scenes of his writing and travels.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T14:20:47.696599+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-stephen-mansfield-podcast-478418"},"episode":{"title":"Hear Ben Sasse!","slug":"hear-ben-sasse","published_at":"2026-05-13T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-stephen-mansfield-podcast-478418/hear-ben-sasse","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-stephen-mansfield-podcast-478418","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/679949ec-455a-4b19-9523-c398a4152ba3.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/679949ec-455a-4b19-9523-c398a4152ba3.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Ben Sasse — Nebraskan, senator, university president, Harvard and Yale scholar — is dying of stage IV pancreatic cancer, and he is using his remaining time to speak truth to America. Staring death in the face, he's declared that Congress is asleep at the wheel, that our neighborhoods matter more than our political tribes, and that \"there are no maverick molecules in the universe.\" You may not agree with everything he says — but a dying man speaking this boldly deserves your full attention. Watch Ben Sasse's interview on 60 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcT9O5Sjmd0 Connect with Stephen: Website:  https://stephenmansfield.tv/ Instagram:  https://instagram.com/mansfieldwrites/ X:  https://twitter.com/MansfieldWrites","meta_description":"Ben Sasse — Nebraskan, senator, university president, Harvard and Yale scholar — is dying of stage IV pancreatic cancer, and he is using his remaining tim…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":965,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-stephen-mansfield-podcast-478418/episodes/hear-ben-sasse/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-stephen-mansfield-podcast-478418/hear-ben-sasse.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}