{"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":"Movie Theaters Rule!","slug":"movie-theaters-rule","published_at":"2026-01-09T23:43:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668/movie-theaters-rule","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisthingrules/episodes/Movie-Theaters-Rule-e3deb2a","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f4b56fa4/podcast/play/113764874/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-9%2F5ac68b0e-38b9-cade-f6b4-862f5a79c578.mp3","summary":"Easily one of the top 5 best dark rooms you pay money to sit inside for several hours, movie theaters make for a singular experience, where people flock together to sit in silence and social interaction is generally frowned upon during the proceedings. We’ve seen this form of entertainment undergo some pretty major changes in our lifetimes, in some ways for the worse, but many for the better. Still, as increasingly expensive and sometimes distracting and occasionally tedious as the theater experience may be, we hope it’s still a thing long after we’re dead. Intro contains various clips from old movie theater promos and the 1976 film “Murder By Death”","meta_description":"Easily one of the top 5 best dark rooms you pay money to sit inside for several hours, movie theaters make for a singular experience, where people flock t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3684,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-thing-rules-7009668/episodes/movie-theaters-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/movie-theaters-rule.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}