{"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":"Carrot Cake Rules! ...Or Does It? (Featuring Alex \"Kozibear\" Kozina)","slug":"carrot-cake-rules-or-does-it-featuring-alex-kozibear-kozina","published_at":"2026-02-06T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668/carrot-cake-rules-or-does-it-featuring-alex-kozibear-kozina","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisthingrules/episodes/Carrot-Cake-Rules-----Or-Does-It--Featuring-Alex-Kozibear-Kozina-e3en589","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f4b56fa4/podcast/play/115102409/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-6%2F66d42647-2995-452c-b19d-974630cdbf6e.mp3","summary":"This week, it’s our most politically-charged and divisive topic yet: Carrot Cake. We’re joined by Alex “Kozibear” Kozina, long time friend of the show and culinary adventurer, to discuss the history and appeal of this vegetable-based confection. If you have any doubt of Kozi’s expertise on the matter, he further demonstrates his familiarity of the matter while making Snake Quake: The Official Cake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wk8nwCMpAk Intro contains clip from Looney Tunes","meta_description":"This week, it’s our most politically-charged and divisive topic yet: Carrot Cake. We’re joined by Alex “Kozibear” Kozina, long time friend of the show and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2810,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-thing-rules-7009668/episodes/carrot-cake-rules-or-does-it-featuring-alex-kozibear-kozina/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/carrot-cake-rules-or-does-it-featuring-alex-kozibear-kozina.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}