{"podcast":{"title":"An Old Timey Podcast","slug":"an-old-timey-podcast-6888779","podcast_index_feed_id":6888779,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5130139.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5130139","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/41607609.jpg","author":"An Old Timey Podcast","episode_count":103,"summary":"History class just got hilariously inappropriate. Kristin Caruso, co-host of the true crime comedy podcast, Let’s Go To Court (16M+ downloads), and Norman Caruso, creator of the Gaming Historian YouTube channel (1M+ subscribers), team up to deliver a history podcast that is well researched, wide-ranging, and deeply silly. In other words, this is a podcast for intellectuals. Intellectuals who make fart jokes.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779"},"episode":{"title":"101: How a Prolific Black Inventor Hid his Race","slug":"101-how-a-prolific-black-inventor-hid-his-race","published_at":"2026-04-29T11:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/101-how-a-prolific-black-inventor-hid-his-race","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8896338","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8896338.mp3?modified=1777343871&sid=5130139&source=rss","summary":"Garrett Morgan was a prolific inventor. He invented the gas mask. The three-way traffic light. The self-extinguishing cigarette. He even created a hair care line. But, as a Black man, he had to be creative in how he presented his inventions to the public. He knew that some people would refuse to buy his invention if they discovered that it had been invented by a Black man. So? Sometimes he hired white actors to play the role of Garrett Morgan. Sometimes he posed as his own assistant. In short, he did what he had to do to get people to take his inventions seriously. Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Kristin pulled from: “Overcoming discrimination by consumers during the age of segregation: The example of Garrett Morgan,” by Lisa D. Cook for Business History Review “Guardian of the public safety: Garrett A. Morgan and the Lake Erie Crib Disaster” by William M King for the Journal of Negro History “Garrett Morgan,” National Inventors Hall of Fame “Garrett Morgan,” Encyclopedia.com “Of courage and caution,” United States Patent and Trademark Office “Black inventor Garrett Morgan saved countless lives with gas mask and improved traffic lights,” Scientific American “Gas mask inventor dim memory here,” by Jim Strang for The Plain Dealer “Wakeman Country Club” Green Book Cleveland “Garrett Morgan,” Biography.com Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts! Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast . At the $5 level, you’ll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90’s style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin’s prev…","meta_description":"Garrett Morgan was a prolific inventor. He invented the gas mask. The three-way traffic light. The self-extinguishing cigarette. He even created a hair ca…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4941,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/episodes/101-how-a-prolific-black-inventor-hid-his-race/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/101-how-a-prolific-black-inventor-hid-his-race.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}