{"podcast":{"title":"The TPM Social Club","slug":"the-tpm-social-club-7798132","podcast_index_feed_id":7798132,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/the-tpm-social-club","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/the-tpm-social-club","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/2f/fa/d8/40/2ffad840-2eb3-4369-be89-c40ddc5d6a45/6097bb06af7e856e7faf1f8cf46e14de45a85de6a987f446a1947aa0b4167598f57320a3366f62dcae323d1192d53c37f8db533637bf64c9941899f210ab145f.jpeg","author":"TPM Media LLC","episode_count":12,"summary":"The TPM Social Club, a show about what's interesting hosted by TPM reporter Josh Kovensky and publisher Joe Ragazzo. Each week Josh and Joe will journey to where politics spills into culture.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T04:20:49.174597+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tpm-social-club-7798132"},"episode":{"title":"The Big World Cup Corruption Episode","slug":"the-big-world-cup-corruption-episode","published_at":"2026-05-29T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tpm-social-club-7798132/the-big-world-cup-corruption-episode","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tpm-social-club-7798132","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/746ded06-8582-4628-8ccb-ef1e72786f62.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/746ded06-8582-4628-8ccb-ef1e72786f62.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Josh and Joe are joined by Tom Kludt, special correspondent at Vanity Fair and a former TPMer. They discuss the World Cup, FIFA, corruption, doping, and more, including why Sepp Blatter, as corrupt as he was, may have been better for soccer as a sport than FIFA's current head, Gianni Infantino. We also talk about why America may have hit its ceiling on how good it can get at soccer, and whether that will ever change. To watch this episode on video, go to our YouTube page . We also have newsletters: subscribe here ! Follow us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tpmsocialclub.bsky.social Facebook: https://facebook.com/talkingpointsmemo Twitter: https://x.com/tpmsocialclub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tpmsocialclub/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"Josh and Joe are joined by Tom Kludt, special correspondent at Vanity Fair and a former TPMer. They discuss the World Cup, FIFA, corruption, doping, and m…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3448,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tpm-social-club-7798132/episodes/the-big-world-cup-corruption-episode/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tpm-social-club-7798132/the-big-world-cup-corruption-episode.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}