{"podcast":{"title":"This Thing Rules","slug":"this-thing-rules-7009668","podcast_index_feed_id":7009668,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f4b56fa4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/thisthingrules","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/40955313/40955313-1712784567723-9590b6caed65b.jpg","author":"Brian Altano and Max Scoville","episode_count":62,"summary":"This Thing Rules is a show where we celebrate our favorite things. What kind of things, exactly? All kinds of things! Movies, foods, cities, bands, shows, books, albums, toys, pictures, moments. Each episode, join long-time collaborators and best pals Brian Altano and Max Scoville as they focus on a different subject, ask themselves what’s so great about it, share some anecdotes about how they grew to love it, unearth some trivia about it, and celebrate the fact that it exists.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668"},"episode":{"title":"Capsule Toy Machines Rule!","slug":"capsule-toy-machines-rule","published_at":"2026-04-03T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668/capsule-toy-machines-rule","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisthingrules/episodes/Capsule-Toy-Machines-Rule-e3hc73g","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f4b56fa4/podcast/play/117889584/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-3%2F6107f08e-a3cf-a6c4-db90-ba3e5da74770.mp3","summary":"You know! Those things that are like gumball machines, but for little toys! Growing up in the USA, they usually dispensed a sticky hand, some slime, maybe a lil Homie, but in Japan they’ve been in another league for decades. We unpack (or perhaps unbox) the charm of randomly distributed toys and trinkets, some of our greatest gets, and the backwards order that we’ve become aware of them.Intro contains clips from a Gashapon machine, Dragon Ball and Se7en.","meta_description":"You know! Those things that are like gumball machines, but for little toys! Growing up in the USA, they usually dispensed a sticky hand, some slime, maybe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2278,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-thing-rules-7009668/episodes/capsule-toy-machines-rule/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668/capsule-toy-machines-rule.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}