{"podcast":{"title":"Badlands Media","slug":"badlands-media-6674661","podcast_index_feed_id":6674661,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/badlandsmedia/feed.xml","website_url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15577742/1_2tf2af.jpg","author":"Badlands Media","episode_count":100,"summary":"Badlands Media features the work of a dedicated group of Patriot citizen journalists who are changing the media landscape in America. Badlands Media shows are originally broadcast LIVE on Rumble.com/BadlandsMedia.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661"},"episode":{"title":"Spellbreakers Ep. 166: The Myth of the Middle Ages","slug":"spellbreakers-ep-166-the-myth-of-the-middle-ages","published_at":"2026-05-16T07:18:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661/spellbreakers-ep-166-the-myth-of-the-middle-ages","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661","url":"https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/spellbreakers-ep-166-the-myth-of-the-middle-ages/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/g82z3zd8ihuxesxj/Spellbreakers_ep_166_1_8kvfb.mp3","summary":"Were the Middle Ages really a thousand years of ignorance, brutality, and superstition? Host Matt Trump, a physicist, says no and has the receipts. Drawing on Johan Huizinga's classic \"The Autumn of the Middle Ages\" and a revelatory 1982 essay by mathematician James Franklin, Matt makes the case that the Middle Ages were actually a period of extraordinary advancement in philosophy, science, architecture, and literature, and that the Renaissance was the gap, not the golden age. Gothic cathedrals, Thomas Aquinas, Nicole Oresme's pre-Galilean mechanics, the myth of prima nocta, chastity belts, flat earth belief, and the Black Death all get their moment. A rich, wide-ranging episode that will make you rethink everything your history class told you.","meta_description":"Were the Middle Ages really a thousand years of ignorance, brutality, and superstition? Host Matt Trump, a physicist, says no and has the receipts. Drawin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5350,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/badlands-media-6674661/episodes/spellbreakers-ep-166-the-myth-of-the-middle-ages/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661/spellbreakers-ep-166-the-myth-of-the-middle-ages.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}