{"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":"97: The Great Stink of 1858","slug":"97-the-great-stink-of-1858","published_at":"2026-04-01T11:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/97-the-great-stink-of-1858","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8880779","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8880779.mp3?modified=1774912917&sid=5130139&source=rss","summary":"By the mid-1800’s, the River Thames was essentially a massive sewer. People poured their waste into it. They also drank from it. That combination resulted in thousands of deaths. People weren’t sure what caused the deaths, but in the summer of 1858, when the temperatures rose and the water levels dropped, London stunk to high heaven. It took a lot of money, creativity, and an incredible act of civil engineering from Sir Joseph Bazalgette to fix the Great Stink. Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from: Ackroyd, Peter. London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. “Cesspools and Sewers: Toilets in Dirty Old London.” Yale University Press , November 19, 2014. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2014/11/19/cesspools-and-sewers-toilets-in-dirty-old-london/ . “Cholera in Victorian London | Science Museum.” https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/cholera-victorian-london . Contagion - CURIOSity Digital Exhibits. “Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century.” March 26, 2020. https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/contagion/feature/cholera-epidemics-in-the-19th-century . Halliday, Stephen. The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis . The History Press, 2020. Historic UK. “The Victorian Workhouse.” https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Victorian-Workhouse/ . “Joseph Bazalgette | The History of London.” December 21, 2024. https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/joseph-bazalgette/ . “The Great Stink | The History of London.” January 20, 2025. https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-great-stink/ . The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered, dir. History and Sewage: The Great Stink of 1858 . 2018. 11:44. http…","meta_description":"By the mid-1800’s, the River Thames was essentially a massive sewer. People poured their waste into it. They also drank from it. That combination resulted…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5551,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/an-old-timey-podcast-6888779/episodes/97-the-great-stink-of-1858/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-6888779/97-the-great-stink-of-1858.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}