{"podcast":{"title":"History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian","slug":"history-for-sleep-with-the-drowsy-historian-7347374","podcast_index_feed_id":7347374,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1053d961c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drowsyhistorian","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43728895/43728895-1750016182352-f65c33156cc4f.jpg","author":"Drowsy Historian","episode_count":497,"summary":"Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing. Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T10:22:45.788441+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-for-sleep-with-the-drowsy-historian-7347374"},"episode":{"title":"Fall Asleep as a 1930s Detective Uncovering a Hidden Criminal Network","slug":"fall-asleep-as-a-1930s-detective-uncovering-a-hidden-criminal-network","published_at":"2026-04-30T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-for-sleep-with-the-drowsy-historian-7347374/fall-asleep-as-a-1930s-detective-uncovering-a-hidden-criminal-network","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-for-sleep-with-the-drowsy-historian-7347374","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drowsyhistorian/episodes/Fall-Asleep-as-a-1930s-Detective-Uncovering-a-Hidden-Criminal-Network-e3i541n","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO4804664012.mp3","summary":"Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Tonight, you step into a quiet 1930s city as a police officer assigned to a case that refuses to reveal itself all at once. There are no dramatic chases or sudden breakthroughs here. Instead, your work unfolds slowly through paperwork, interviews, and long hours of observation. Reports stack on your desk, each one neat, reasonable, and just slightly off. Names repeat without explanation. Addresses shift. Dates almost align. You begin to notice patterns, but they never quite form a complete picture. Outside, the city moves as it always does. Shops open, deliveries are made, conversations drift in and out of earshot. Nothing appears unusual, and that is exactly what makes it worth watching. You spend hours speaking with people who offer answers that say very little. You sit through long stretches of surveillance where nothing happens, over and over again. And somewhere within all of it, something organized and deliberate continues just beneath the surface. This is not a story about action. It is a story about persistence. About quiet attention. About the slow realization that the most important details are often the ones that almost go unnoticed. If you enjoy calm, immersive historical storytelling designed to help you relax and fall asleep, you are in the right place. 🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep Tools Looking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Under Pillow Speaker for Ultimate Immersion → https://amzn.to/49fnEm1 • Sleep Earbuds for Enhanced Immersion → https://amzn.to/47ccNqV • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f • Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → ht…","meta_description":"Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Tonight, you step into a quiet 1930s city as a police officer assig…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8764,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/history-for-sleep-with-the-drowsy-historian-7347374/episodes/fall-asleep-as-a-1930s-detective-uncovering-a-hidden-criminal-network/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-for-sleep-with-the-drowsy-historian-7347374/fall-asleep-as-a-1930s-detective-uncovering-a-hidden-criminal-network.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}