{"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":"102: I've Got A Bridge To Sell You","slug":"102-i-ve-got-a-bridge-to-sell-you","published_at":"2026-05-06T11:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/102-i-ve-got-a-bridge-to-sell-you","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8899204","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8899204.mp3?modified=1777935304&sid=5130139&source=rss","summary":"George C. Parker was an infamous con man. He sold the Brooklyn Bridge countless times. He sold Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb. He sold Madison Square Garden. He sold the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He even sold the Statue of Liberty! Most often, the victims of his schemes were new immigrants who didn’t speak English and were unfamiliar with America’s public property laws. …but… was George C. Parker truly the prolific scammer he claimed to be? The internet sure thinks so! Normie C begs to differ. Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from: Asbury Park Press . “Capt. Parker Held For Extradition.” June 30, 1928. Asbury Park Press . “Parker, Famous ‘Seller,’ Seized Here, Gets Life.” December 18, 1928. Asbury Park Press . “Parker, Noted Confidence Man, Is Arrested Here.” June 29, 1928. Brooklyn Daily Times . “Famous ‘Con’ Man Starts as ‘Lifer.’” November 23, 1928. Brooklyn Daily Times . “Smartest Bunco Salesman Faces Life Term If Convicted.” July 8, 1928. Brooklyn Eagle . “Albert Murch Dies.” August 11, 1931. Brooklyn Eagle . “Brooklyn Bridge’s ‘Seller’ Sent to Sing Sing For Life.” November 23, 1928. Brown, Peter Jensen. “Bridges, Bunco and Basso - a Gullible History of Selling the Brooklyn Bridge.” Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog, October 1, 2020. https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2020/10/bridges-bunco-and-basso-gullible.html . Cohen, Gabriel. “For You, Half Price - The New York Times.” The New York Times , November 27, 2005. https://archive.is/5GeA4 . Courier-Post . “Bunco Prince Faces Life For $150 Deal.” July 9, 1928. Daily News . “Con Man Uses Love Notes To Gag Dupes.” July 8, 1928. Detroit Free Press . “Selling Brooklyn Bridge.” November 23, 1928. Ellery Queen Magazine. “Stranger Than Fiction.” November 2022. https://www.ell…","meta_description":"George C. Parker was an infamous con man. He sold the Brooklyn Bridge countless times. He sold Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb. He sold Madison Square Garden. He…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6337,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/episodes/102-i-ve-got-a-bridge-to-sell-you/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-6888779/102-i-ve-got-a-bridge-to-sell-you.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}