Start an Animated Podcast episode: two AI hosts with two different voices talking through a topic over a held studio picture, with captions. Returns a job id at once; use check_video for progress and the link.
SPENDS REAL MONEY: one minute from the user's monthly pool per minute of episode. Premium up to 30 minutes, Ultimate up to 60. Agree topic, length, tone, the two hosts (names and voices, which must differ) and the studio with the user first, and call once per request on their own direct request only. The studio is an image_url from preview_podcast_studio the user approved, the name of a saved studio from list_podcast_studios (which also brings that studio's host names, looks and voices unless you give others), or a public link to the user's own finished studio picture. Voices are the built-in ones from list_video_options (not cloned voices). No background music on podcasts. SHOWS: if show_name is one of the user's saved shows, the settings of its last episode fill in anything you do not pass, so a repeat episode only needs a topic; save_show remembers this episode's set-up under show_name. After it is finished: make_podcast_thumbnail for a thumbnail with these hosts, podcast_youtube_details for the YouTube title, description, chapters and tags, and edit_podcast to change lines, voices, captions, sound bar or studio.