{"podcast":{"title":"Vital Voices","slug":"vital-voices-6695622","podcast_index_feed_id":6695622,"rss_url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ea7e13e/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x3000+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4c%2Fb9%2Fb0cb2ceb4ecd9367b9decfa6ff82%2Fwets-vital-voices-graphic-3000x3000.jpg","author":"Fred Sauceman (895wets@gmail.com)","episode_count":20,"summary":"Vital Voices features interviews with a wide variety of people talking about the subjects they are most passionate about in life.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T14:17:29.874503+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622"},"episode":{"title":"Dr. Paul E. Stanton, Jr.","slug":"dr-paul-e-stanton-jr","published_at":"2026-03-19T02:29:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622/dr-paul-e-stanton-jr","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622","url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices/2026-03-18/dr-paul-e-stanton-jr","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s374/audio/2026/03/vitalvoicespodcastepisode129.mp3","summary":"East Tennessee State University President Emeritus Dr. Paul E. Stanton, Jr., died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 81. Dr. Stanton was the institution’s eighth president, serving from 1997 until 2012. In this interview from 2007, Dr. Stanton talks about one of his hobbies and how it was centered around family. A native of Georgia, Dr. Stanton was passionate about boiled peanuts.","meta_description":"East Tennessee State University President Emeritus Dr. Paul E. Stanton, Jr., died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 81. Dr. Stanton was the institution’s ei…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1080,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/vital-voices-6695622/episodes/dr-paul-e-stanton-jr/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622/dr-paul-e-stanton-jr.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}