{"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":"John U. Bacon","slug":"john-u-bacon","published_at":"2026-02-06T23:13:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622/john-u-bacon","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622","url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices/2026-02-06/john-u-bacon","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s374/audio/2026/02/vitalvoicespodcastepisode123.mp3","summary":"Our guest is John U. Bacon, author of The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Currently on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, the book recounts the story of the sinking of the freighter in the waters of Lake Superior, resulting in the deaths of the 29 crewmen, on November 10, 1975. This is part one of two “Vital Voices” programs with John Bacon.","meta_description":"Our guest is John U. Bacon, author of The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Currently on the New York Times nonfiction bestsel…","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/john-u-bacon/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/john-u-bacon.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}