{"podcast":{"title":"Youth Group Chronicles","slug":"youth-group-chronicles-5303324","podcast_index_feed_id":5303324,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/youth-group-chronicles","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/youth-group-chronicles","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/0a/55/36/58/0a553658-1cb9-4c81-ba1f-9ca9be74206d/f76010dfe679b105d08041ac6f6d61ff097e79aa2e3be824116a03bea8fbf863179d65097fa4de38c6d5795f3f83a57669687546ce8e81e2ac691d6bc3d45425.jpeg","author":"Youth Group Chronicles","episode_count":234,"summary":"Unbelievable, hilarious, and sometimes horrifying stories from youth group — shared by listeners from around the world every week. Have a story for us? Email it to stories@ygcpodcast.com","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T06:21:25.326815+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/youth-group-chronicles-5303324"},"episode":{"title":"222: The Silent Struggle (Cole Clark and George Johnson)","slug":"222-the-silent-struggle-cole-clark-and-george-johnson","published_at":"2026-04-08T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/youth-group-chronicles-5303324/222-the-silent-struggle-cole-clark-and-george-johnson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/youth-group-chronicles-5303324","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/451f1df0-b10a-4347-be74-ae813ff1b650.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/451f1df0-b10a-4347-be74-ae813ff1b650.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"In this episode, Sam is joined by Cole Clark and George Johnson for a lineup of stories that somehow keep escalating in chaos, with one particularly heavy moment at the center that sets the tone for everything else. What starts with a seemingly harmless church event quickly spirals into a frozen disaster no one saw coming, while a youth trip fireworks show takes a turn that nearly ends in catastrophe. There’s a bizarre medical situation at camp that had been quietly building all week, a story of ignored warnings that leads to devastating consequences, and a chain of events involving food poisoning that somehow turns into one of the strangest moments ever witnessed in a chapel. Add in a hotel stay with unexpected dangers, a nursing home visit that takes an awkward turn, and a speaker who probably shouldn’t have been trusted with props, and you get an episode that swings from hilarious to unsettling without ever letting up… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"In this episode, Sam is joined by Cole Clark and George Johnson for a lineup of stories that somehow keep escalating in chaos, with one particularly heavy…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3321,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/youth-group-chronicles-5303324/episodes/222-the-silent-struggle-cole-clark-and-george-johnson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/youth-group-chronicles-5303324/222-the-silent-struggle-cole-clark-and-george-johnson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}