{"podcast":{"title":"Garden of Thought","slug":"garden-of-thought-3714659","podcast_index_feed_id":3714659,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4863095/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/garden-of-thought--4863095","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3134fbfbed776f560b49645841127799.jpg","author":"Jeff Lippman","episode_count":507,"summary":"Hey there, welcome to the Garden of Thought! It's a place where we plant seeds of curiosity and see what sprouts. We'll be exploring all sorts of fascinating topics with your host, Jeff Lippman: the news, pop culture, those weird creatures you hear about, old myths, alien stories, human history, and, yeah, maybe even a little wrestling. Come along for the ride, because every great story has to start somewhere.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T16:17:03.036551+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659"},"episode":{"title":"Garden of Thought E.366 A Whole Lotta Groups","slug":"garden-of-thought-e-366-a-whole-lotta-groups","published_at":"2026-04-12T16:08:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659/garden-of-thought-e-366-a-whole-lotta-groups","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/garden-of-thought-e-366-a-whole-lotta-groups--71033913","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71033913/a_whole_lotta_groups.mp3","summary":"Professor Rick Spence is back and he's covering a lot of ground. He's a retired Professor, an author, repeat presenter of The Great Courses, and co-host of As Strange As It Seems podcast. We cover the mythos and history of the Templars, how they might relate to Freemasons and others, and try to separate fact from legend. We also learn about the Yezidi, the Druze, and Rastafarianism. We touch on Cathars, Johnians and Manicheism. I'm sure I forgot a few.","meta_description":"Professor Rick Spence is back and he's covering a lot of ground. He's a retired Professor, an author, repeat presenter of The Great Courses, and co-host o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7181,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/garden-of-thought-3714659/episodes/garden-of-thought-e-366-a-whole-lotta-groups/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659/garden-of-thought-e-366-a-whole-lotta-groups.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}