podcasts

Tools to discover podcast episodes and retrieve transcripts for quoting, analysis, and summarization. Two search tools, with different strengths — pick deliberately: * `search_episodes`: lexical / full-text matching over titles, descriptions, and authors. Best when the user names a specific person, company, product, or wants verbatim phrasing. Example queries that work well here: "Sam Altman", "Anthropic", "Theo Epstein", "EU AI Act". * `search_episodes_by_topic`: semantic matching over LLM-extracted topic phrases per episode. Best for concepts, themes, and paraphrased queries — matches by meaning, not exact wording. Returns the matched topic phrases alongside each episode so you can see *why* it matched. Example queries that work well here: "AI safety", "GPU supply constraints", "roster construction in baseball", "monetary policy and inflation". If you're unsure which to use, prefer `search_episodes_by_topic` for thematic questions and `search_episodes` when the us