{"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.396 Civilizations before Civilization","slug":"garden-of-thought-e-396-civilizations-before-civilization","published_at":"2026-08-11T14:25:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659/garden-of-thought-e-396-civilizations-before-civilization","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-of-thought-3714659","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/garden-of-thought-e-396-civilizations-before-civilization--73778857","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73778857/533a4872_37f5_e659_7055_1c5626d6abe3.mp3","summary":"What's a Younger Dryas? What's a Glacial Maximum? Who was living in civilzations before Egypt and Sumeria? Turns out we have some names, places and archeology. So, Professor Emeritus John Hoopes breaks it down for us. Mezolythic, Neolithic, Holocene. among others are all terms we'll define and we'll fit some of those puzzle pieces between transforming to agriculturally based settlements from mobile hunters and gatherers.","meta_description":"What's a Younger Dryas? What's a Glacial Maximum? Who was living in civilzations before Egypt and Sumeria? Turns out we have some names, places and archeo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6175,"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-396-civilizations-before-civilization/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-396-civilizations-before-civilization.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}