{"podcast":{"title":"What A Day","slug":"what-a-day-96811","podcast_index_feed_id":96811,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166630.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166630","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43408283.jpg","author":"What A Day","episode_count":1600,"summary":"If you’re looking for hype, fake outrage, and groupthink, kindly keep moving. Our mission at What a Day is simple: to be your guide to what truly matters each morning (and the fun stuff you might have missed) in just 20 minutes. Host Jane Coaston brings you in-depth reporting and substantive analysis on the big stories shaping today and the creeping trends shaping tomorrow—and when she doesn’t know the answers, she asks someone even smarter to fill us all in. Radical, right? New episodes at 5:00 a.m. EST, Monday–Friday in your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. Being informed was never this easy.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T18:19:00.313487+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811"},"episode":{"title":"America Icing Out World Cup Fans","slug":"america-icing-out-world-cup-fans","published_at":"2026-06-10T21:12:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811/america-icing-out-world-cup-fans","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8915119","audio_url":"https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/arttrk.com/p/CRMDA/mgln.ai/e/284/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8915119.mp3?modified=1781126027&sid=5166630&source=rss","summary":"The World Cup is the biggest annual sporting event in the world. And the first game is tomorrow . This year’s competition is being hosted by three countries for the first time: the US, Canada, and Mexico. Already, fans of Argentina , Cote d’Ivoire , and other countries have flooded social media with their journeys to watch their favorite teams play. But with the World Cup, as with most things, comes… a lot of politics. We spoke with Bill Connelly to find out how politics is impacting the event. He’s a staff writer for ESPN covering soccer and college football. And in headlines, Trump continues to threaten Iran , inflation hits its highest in three years , and Democrats “ nominate the guy with the nazi tattoo ” in the Maine Democratic primary for U.S. Senate . Show Notes: Check out Bill's work – https://tinyurl.com/mvt45rea Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday","meta_description":"The World Cup is the biggest annual sporting event in the world. And the first game is tomorrow . This year’s competition is being hosted by three countri…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1091,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-a-day-96811/episodes/america-icing-out-world-cup-fans/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811/america-icing-out-world-cup-fans.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}