{"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.378 Into the Desert","slug":"garden-of-thought-e-378-into-the-desert","published_at":"2026-05-27T15:56:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659/garden-of-thought-e-378-into-the-desert","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/garden-of-thought-e-378-into-the-desert--72062292","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72062292/into_the_desert.mp3","summary":"Elgin and Larissa cohost the \"Into the Desert\" podcast on YouTube which seeks to inspire honest discussion without derision and name calling. Obviously, with your flawed host here, the only way to accomplish that was to have them take over the show. I mean almost. Kind of. Sorta. But I mostly followed their lead and we discussed political issues, questions of theology, and all sorts of things without anyone insuitling anyone. But I may have caught one of them doing a shot. I'm not saying which one and I'm probably lying. But I'm being truthful when I tell you, they are lovely people and we had intelligent discourse. Thus, I think visitations to the desert might be helpful to all.","meta_description":"Elgin and Larissa cohost the \"Into the Desert\" podcast on YouTube which seeks to inspire honest discussion without derision and name calling. Obviously, w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5863,"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-378-into-the-desert/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-378-into-the-desert.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}