{"podcast":{"title":"Yesterday Was Easy","slug":"yesterday-was-easy-7030184","podcast_index_feed_id":7030184,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/e7x_tRpx","website_url":"https://yesterday-was-easy.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/2e05ac13-7483-4be5-b7e6-6777ddc01cb1/dd76b223-c3c8-43f7-90b3-afcce4554966/3000x3000/podcast-thumb-3-2.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Luke Pierson","episode_count":38,"summary":"This show is for men. This is not for yamomanem, nor your wife, nor you baby girl. Yesterday was yesterday. Today is today. Yesterday was easy. Today is not. So, firm up your resoluteness. Gird up your loins. No whining allowed. Stop complaining. Effeminacy will not be tolerated. Put your purse down. Pick up a shovel and start digging. Rub some dirt on your wounds and get to work.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-06T08:18:23.460972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-was-easy-7030184"},"episode":{"title":"Bury The Excuses","slug":"bury-the-excuses","published_at":"2025-05-14T17:42:35+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-was-easy-7030184/bury-the-excuses","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-was-easy-7030184","url":"https://yesterday-was-easy.simplecast.com/episodes/bury-the-excuses-HDFGT_x9","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/1e1b8b90-02c8-46b7-ad64-ad621cc79356/episodes/48171408-6386-413e-aa67-7cb189e5912f/audio/76463224-373c-4d8c-bdab-cb43f23f5468/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=e7x_tRpx","summary":"In this seventeenth episode, Pastor Luke looks at the history of excuse making and talks about putting excuses to death. Far too many men in the Church make excuses for their failures, not because they are not capable of taking on responsibility, but because they are allergic to hard work. Responsibility involves sacrifice and selflessness and pain. Making excuses is easy and requires nothing more than creativity. It is selfish and painless. Hard work produces results, despising excuses. Great men don’t make excuses, but overcome them. Don’t be good at making excuses, but good at putting them do death. Bury the excuses. Yesterday was easy!","meta_description":"In this seventeenth episode, Pastor Luke looks at the history of excuse making and talks about putting excuses to death. Far too many men in the Church ma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":429,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-was-easy-7030184/episodes/bury-the-excuses/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-was-easy-7030184/bury-the-excuses.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}