{"podcast":{"title":"After the Apocalypse","slug":"after-the-apocalypse-3453306","podcast_index_feed_id":3453306,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5fc7a5c6c9a8574c3258229f","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/after-the-apocalypse","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5fc7a5c6c9a8574c3258229f/1767924544203-8440fae5-934e-4331-ad8b-deaf73d3b46f.jpeg","author":"Christopher Russell","episode_count":138,"summary":"After the Apocalypse is a serial podcast that tells the story of the survivors of a 21st century plague that has catastrophically wiped out 90% of human population. Will they be able to survive? What happens to our modern world when the great plague comes? Can humanity survive and learn, or will it devolve into a medieval nightmare of our worst traits? Listen to the story of After the Apocalypse and find out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-28T06:18:23.755815+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-the-apocalypse-3453306"},"episode":{"title":"Beef Stew - An After the Apocalypse Story","slug":"beef-stew-an-after-the-apocalypse-story","published_at":"2026-03-28T03:59:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-the-apocalypse-3453306/beef-stew-an-after-the-apocalypse-story","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-the-apocalypse-3453306","url":"http://www.oldmanapocalypse.com","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5fc7a5c6c9a8574c3258229f/e/69c6791488f1e891325ea1df/media.mp3","summary":"“In great loss there is often the freedom of discovery.” - Isherwood Williams … It was midmorning on a rainy day when the traveler knocked open the door of the Siren Café. A few months had passed since Delores joined Jolene at the store. A few months since they’d cleaned out all the corpses and moved on with the basic, hard business of surviving.  Jolene had stopped pretending to run the store as if nothing had happened. She’d come to grips with the loss. Even so, the Café was still her locus of gravity in the apocalypse, and she and Delores showed up each day and swept the sidewalks. They needed something to do and minding the Café was as good as anything else in the apocalypse. So, as supplies dwindled and weeks passed, they showed up every day and did what they could for the occasional survivors who stumbled in for the small number of survivors who stumbled in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"“In great loss there is often the freedom of discovery.” - Isherwood Williams … It was midmorning on a rainy day when the traveler knocked open the door o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2054,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/after-the-apocalypse-3453306/episodes/beef-stew-an-after-the-apocalypse-story/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-the-apocalypse-3453306/beef-stew-an-after-the-apocalypse-story.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}