{"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":531,"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":"2026-09-15T06:19:33.396767+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659"},"episode":{"title":"Garden of Thought E.394 The Dark Tower","slug":"garden-of-thought-e-394-the-dark-tower","published_at":"2026-08-03T17:34:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659/garden-of-thought-e-394-the-dark-tower","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/garden-of-thought-e-394-the-dark-tower--73359583","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73359583/7c43331a_aada_26b2_24b6_15f87fad03c4.mp3","summary":"Stephen King is the most prolific horror author of the last several generations. Embedded within his works, is the connective tissue of The Wheel of Ka, or the King-a-verse. The dfining works that exemplifies this most is the Dark Tower series. There are at least 7 novels and it's inspired numerous other multiverses. In orderr to discuss this series, I call upon Matt Vincent. You might remember him from our Caprica episode.","meta_description":"Stephen King is the most prolific horror author of the last several generations. Embedded within his works, is the connective tissue of The Wheel of Ka, o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":9232,"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-394-the-dark-tower/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-394-the-dark-tower.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}