{"podcast":{"title":"Boring History For Sleep | Gentle Storytelling And Ambient Sounds (Official)","slug":"boring-history-for-sleep-gentle-storytelling-and-ambient-sounds-official-7550968","podcast_index_feed_id":7550968,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/103495990/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://buymeacoffee.com/historyandsleep","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43401060/43401060-1743765680804-f9859603d6698.jpg","author":"HistoryAndSleepOfficial","episode_count":492,"summary":"Unwind tonight with an ad-free sleep story experience, designed to calm your mind and guide you into deep relaxation. This 7-hour sleep video blends rain sounds for sleep with soothing storytelling, featuring adult war stories and history stories with rain. Explore hidden war secrets, mysteries, and thought-provoking moments from the past, all set to the gentle rhythm of calming rain for relaxation. https://buymeacoffee.com/historyandsleep?new=1 If you guys ever want to support me further, you can buy me or the crew a coffee here :) Thanks!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-15T10:21:18.197048+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-history-for-sleep-gentle-storytelling-and-ambient-sounds-official-7550968"},"episode":{"title":"Why Half the World Once Followed Karl Marx | Boring History For Sleep","slug":"why-half-the-world-once-followed-karl-marx-boring-history-for-sleep","published_at":"2026-08-23T00:15:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-history-for-sleep-gentle-storytelling-and-ambient-sounds-official-7550968/why-half-the-world-once-followed-karl-marx-boring-history-for-sleep","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-history-for-sleep-gentle-storytelling-and-ambient-sounds-official-7550968","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyandsleep/episodes/Why-Half-the-World-Once-Followed-Karl-Marx--Boring-History-For-Sleep-e3noqee","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO9284291776.mp3","summary":"Tonight, settle into the warmth of a quiet room and let the soft crackle of the fireplace take over the background. We’re opening a heavy chapter of history, but you can leave the note-taking for another night. Our story is about how the ideas of one nineteenth-century thinker spread far beyond his lifetime and influenced governments, revolutions, political movements, and millions of lives. This extended black-screen sleep experience pairs cozy fireplace ambience with slow, approachable storytelling as we explore Karl Marx, the world that shaped his thinking, and why Marxism became so influential during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We’ll begin in an age of factories, crowded cities, changing working conditions, and enormous economic transformation. From there, we’ll follow Marx through his writings and collaboration with Friedrich Engels, gently unpacking ideas about class, labor, capitalism, and revolution without turning bedtime into an economics lecture. Then we’ll follow what happened after Marx was gone. His ideas traveled across Europe, Russia, China, Latin America, and beyond, interpreted very differently by different movements and governments. We’ll look at why Marxism appealed to so many people, while also examining the repression, political violence, economic failures, and controversy associated with many regimes that claimed his legacy. Rather than asking you to choose a side, tonight’s story is about understanding why these ideas became so powerful and why they remain so debated. This is part of a carefully curated historical sleep experience, thoughtfully researched using Marx’s writings, contemporary accounts, archival material, and established historical scholarship. The goal is a balanced, calm look at one of the most influential political id…","meta_description":"Tonight, settle into the warmth of a quiet room and let the soft crackle of the fireplace take over the background. We’re opening a heavy chapter of histo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":20570,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/boring-history-for-sleep-gentle-storytelling-and-ambient-sounds-official-7550968/episodes/why-half-the-world-once-followed-karl-marx-boring-history-for-sleep/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/boring-history-for-sleep-gentle-storytelling-and-ambient-sounds-official-7550968/why-half-the-world-once-followed-karl-marx-boring-history-for-sleep.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}