{"podcast":{"title":"To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes","slug":"to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870","podcast_index_feed_id":7201870,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/67a407e5340a5590cd2953ad","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/to-the-contrary","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/67a407e5340a5590cd2953ad/1779282218257-85582166-fea1-4b59-aeb0-5225884ca0a1.jpeg","author":"Charlie Sykes","episode_count":223,"summary":"You are not the crazy ones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T08:22:27.374404+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870"},"episode":{"title":"“There’s No National Interest With Trump, Just Personal”","slug":"there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal","published_at":"2026-03-26T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870","url":"https://shows.acast.com/to-the-contrary/episodes/69c47789a3dddd45e9ad6268","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67a407e5340a5590cd2953ad/e/69c47789a3dddd45e9ad6268/media.mp3","summary":"Phillips O'Brien is a historian and Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In this episode, he joins Charlie to discuss the different ways Trump could operate in Iran right now and the biggest obstacle to it all — the fact that Trump is only motivated by personal gain and that many people have given up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Phillips O'Brien is a historian and Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In this episode, he joins Charlie to discuss…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2742,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/episodes/there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/there-s-no-national-interest-with-trump-just-personal.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}