{"api_version": 1, "episode_id": "ep_today_explained_8e3ca487d9db", "title": "No ceasefire for Lebanon", "podcast": "Today, Explained", "podcast_slug": "today_explained", "category": "news", "publish_date": "2026-04-15T18:30:00+00:00", "audio_url": "https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP4435394079.mp3?updated=1776277822", "source_link": "https://www.vox.com/todayexplained", "cover_image_url": "https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/71725b88-d05c-11f0-a63b-c7ed5370f0dd/image/978f0ac662376266900bbd688a49f2e6.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress", "summary": "Israel and Lebanon met in Washington DC on Tuesday to talk about peace. But it was still a big historic moment because Lebanon and Israel hadn't met one on one to hash out their ish in decades.", "key_takeaways": ["All to say, this is a complicated war which will surely be followed by a fragile peace, and we're gonna get into it on Today Explained", "Kara's talking to Silicon Valley power players and trying out the latest in antiaging technology to see what works and what's a waste", "And then in the early afternoon, there was this ten minute barrage"], "best_for": ["listeners looking for a practical AI episode debrief"], "why_listen": "It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of lebanon, hezbollah, time, including: And before you get your hopes up, no ceasefire yet.", "verdict": "worth_your_time", "guests": [], "entities": {}, "quotes": [], "chapters": [], "overall_score": 71.8, "score_breakdown": {"clarity": 70.2, "originality": 47.8, "hype_penalty": 4.2, "actionability": 51.0, "technical_depth": 91.0, "information_density": 100.0}, "score_evidence": {}, "score_reasoning": {}, "scoring_confidence": 0.98, "transcript_available": true, "transcript_chars": 25671, "transcript_provider": "deepgram"}