{"podcast":{"title":"We Are Spiraling","slug":"we-are-spiraling-7559558","podcast_index_feed_id":7559558,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2551823.rss","website_url":"https://wearespiraling.com/welcome","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/vss4bjrsek1hrvfnn23sw3luovtg?.jpg","author":"Priya Anand","episode_count":17,"summary":"We talk about curly hair to learn more about our culture — from how we perceive ourselves to how the world sees us. Priya Anand, an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in Bloomberg, Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed and Politico, turns her investigative eye to her lifelong obsession: curly hair. You might think: curly hair, how much is there to say? A whole podcast dedicated to this? I don’t want to hear someone ramble about all their hair lotions and potions! But there is so much to unravel about why so many people hide their ringlets as secret curlies, how politicians who wear their hair curly are vilified and what Hollywood's hostility toward curls means for our society.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T08:20:07.777358+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-are-spiraling-7559558"},"episode":{"title":"How To Look Like A Greek God","slug":"how-to-look-like-a-greek-god","published_at":"2026-01-08T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-are-spiraling-7559558/how-to-look-like-a-greek-god","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-are-spiraling-7559558","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2551823/episodes/18469257-how-to-look-like-a-greek-god.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2551823/episodes/18469257-how-to-look-like-a-greek-god.mp3","summary":"Aphrodite: curly hair. Zeus: curly hair. The statue of David: curly hair. Ancient Greeks and Romans knew what we know on this show: curly hair is worth obsessing over. We talk to Janet Stephens, the world’s foremost expert on ancient Greek and Roman hairstyles and why curly hair was prized. Subscribe to our Substack for photos of these styles and how to recreate them. Subscribe to our Substack for behind-the-scenes stories: WeAreSpiraling.com Follow Priya on Instagram and TikTok MAYURA waitl...","meta_description":"Aphrodite: curly hair. Zeus: curly hair. The statue of David: curly hair. Ancient Greeks and Romans knew what we know on this show: curly hair is worth ob…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1205,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/we-are-spiraling-7559558/episodes/how-to-look-like-a-greek-god/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-are-spiraling-7559558/how-to-look-like-a-greek-god.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}