{"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":"Travel Rules! (Live From Düsseldorf)","slug":"travel-rules-live-from-d-sseldorf","published_at":"2025-08-29T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668/travel-rules-live-from-d-sseldorf","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-thing-rules-7009668","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisthingrules/episodes/Travel-Rules--Live-From-Dsseldorf-e37dm2q","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f4b56fa4/podcast/play/107451930/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-7-27%2F12120558-6e4c-6e71-ead5-17373c08cc7c.mp3","summary":"This episode, we tried something new and recorded on location from a restaurant in Düsseldorf, Germany. We sampled the local beer and talked about some of our adventures in Deutschland, including regional varieties of gummi candy, museums, kiosks, cities in which you can actually get around on foot, bees, yellow jackets, and other stuff. Apologies for the background noise, this was an experiment! We’ll be back to normal next episode.","meta_description":"This episode, we tried something new and recorded on location from a restaurant in Düsseldorf, Germany. We sampled the local beer and talked about some of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1455,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-thing-rules-7009668/episodes/travel-rules-live-from-d-sseldorf/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/travel-rules-live-from-d-sseldorf.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}