feat(podcasts): add YouTube podcast source with transcript-first discovery

New "podcasts" source that discovers podcast content by scanning transcripts
from LLM-resolved YouTube channels. Finds content invisible to title-based
search — Acquired's "The NFL" episode mentions Taylor Swift 18x, ESPN 117x,
Netflix 102x, none in the title.

Architecture:
- LLM resolves 6-12 podcast channel @handles per topic
- Engine fetches recent episodes via yt-dlp (no video download)
- Downloads auto-captions and greps for topic keywords
- Episodes with 5+ mentions become podcast results with highlights
- Runs in parallel, ~15-20s latency, invisible in 3-min research run

Pipeline integration:
- New source module: scripts/lib/podcast_yt.py
- Registered in pipeline, normalizer, signals, planner, render
- CLI flag: --podcast-channels=AcquiredFM,lexfridman,...
- SOURCE_QUALITY: 0.88 (above YouTube's 0.85)
- Opt-in via INCLUDE_SOURCES=podcasts or --search=podcasts

Zero new API keys. Zero new dependencies. Reuses yt-dlp + transcript pipeline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Matt Van Horn
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@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ def normalize_source_items(
"xiaohongshu": _normalize_grounding,
"github": _normalize_github,
"perplexity": _normalize_grounding,
"podcasts": lambda s, i, idx, fd, td: _normalize_youtube(s, i, idx, fd, td),
}
normalizer = normalizers.get(source)
if normalizer is None: