{"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.372 Professor Temple on Everything","slug":"garden-of-thought-e-372-professor-temple-on-everything","published_at":"2026-05-02T15:04:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659/garden-of-thought-e-372-professor-temple-on-everything","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/garden-of-thought-e-372-professor-temple-on-everything--71625550","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71625550/professor_temple_on_everything.mp3","summary":"Half a century ago, he published an international sensation and he hasn't stopped researching and writing since. He's a true Renaissance Man and his studies are far and wide. He's written on the origins of the universe, the matter state known as plasma, the dating of Egyptian megaliths, and...heaven? We discuss how he has disproved the Big Bang Theory. We discuss how he might be the only person besides Aristotle to read the entirety of Aristotle's zoological tomes. We discuss the sentient beings all throughout the universe that aren't grays or little green men, and he's documented multiple efforts at communication by them TO us. I theorize on \"photons\" and twin myths. We discuss noetics. We are still kin.","meta_description":"Half a century ago, he published an international sensation and he hasn't stopped researching and writing since. He's a true Renaissance Man and his studi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6245,"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-372-professor-temple-on-everything/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-372-professor-temple-on-everything.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}