{"podcast":{"title":"The System is Down with Dan Smotz","slug":"the-system-is-down-with-dan-smotz-1118706","podcast_index_feed_id":1118706,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1787244.rss","website_url":"https://thesystemisdown.tv","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/2au50176jyonsoc5cuo54lwj6qid?.jpg","author":"Dan Smotz","episode_count":737,"summary":"Conspiracies, Politics, and Religion: Questioning Everything and Staying Uncomfortable","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T18:19:34.129062+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-system-is-down-with-dan-smotz-1118706"},"episode":{"title":"530: WE’RE BACK! – The World is Still Sad, Dumb, Ugly, Hilarious, Brilliant & Beautiful","slug":"530-we-re-back-the-world-is-still-sad-dumb-ugly-hilarious-brilliant-beautiful","published_at":"2026-07-09T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-system-is-down-with-dan-smotz-1118706/530-we-re-back-the-world-is-still-sad-dumb-ugly-hilarious-brilliant-beautiful","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-system-is-down-with-dan-smotz-1118706","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1787244/episodes/19467398-530-we-re-back-the-world-is-still-sad-dumb-ugly-hilarious-brilliant-beautiful.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1787244/episodes/19467398-530-we-re-back-the-world-is-still-sad-dumb-ugly-hilarious-brilliant-beautiful.mp3","summary":"Today, Dan Smotz and Dave Casey watch the world burn, while laughing their way thru all the most important articles in the news… and a whole lot of unimportant ones as well. Question everything. Stay uncomfortable. Lets get weird. On the Docket: * Where have we been? * What’s going on? * Andrew Wilson Replaced Charlie Kirk? * Is war over yet? * Wait. You have a podcast? * And more Follow Dan: https://x.com/tsidpod Follow Dave: https://x.com/davevsgoliath1 Join The Downers Club...","meta_description":"Today, Dan Smotz and Dave Casey watch the world burn, while laughing their way thru all the most important articles in the news… and a whole lot of unimpo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5326,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-system-is-down-with-dan-smotz-1118706/episodes/530-we-re-back-the-world-is-still-sad-dumb-ugly-hilarious-brilliant-beautiful/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-system-is-down-with-dan-smotz-1118706/530-we-re-back-the-world-is-still-sad-dumb-ugly-hilarious-brilliant-beautiful.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}