{"podcast":{"title":"History of the Caribbeans | Exploring Resilience and Culture","slug":"history-of-the-caribbeans-exploring-resilience-and-culture-7129356","podcast_index_feed_id":7129356,"rss_url":"https://feeds.castos.com/qojx1","website_url":"https://10xpodgroup.com","image_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/696791fa7737c1-14460688/images/podcast/covers/c1a-7gmk6-nd1o1v12s02-3smcli.jpg","author":"history experts | Joe & Kevin","episode_count":624,"summary":"Join Caribbean history experts Joe & Kevin as they uncover the #1 Caribbean History & Culture Podcast powerful stories, cultural legacies, and untold truths that shaped the region in History of the Caribbeans: Tales of Resilience and Culture — a podcast for listeners passionate about Caribbean history, heritage, and the enduring spirit of a people who’ve shaped the world.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-21T08:18:28.028991+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-the-caribbeans-exploring-resilience-and-culture-7129356"},"episode":{"title":"He Left His Wife's Birthday Dinner and Never Came Home","slug":"he-left-his-wife-s-birthday-dinner-and-never-came-home","published_at":"2026-06-07T23:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-the-caribbeans-exploring-resilience-and-culture-7129356/he-left-his-wife-s-birthday-dinner-and-never-came-home","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-the-caribbeans-exploring-resilience-and-culture-7129356","url":"https://history-of-the-caribbeans-exploring-resilience-and-culture.castos.com/episodes/he-left-his-wifes-birthday-dinner-and-never-came-home","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/696791fa7737c1-14460688/2485003/c1e-293k6fqvp82fnk563j-z3103kzps472-tizupv.mp4","summary":"He was a Jamaican immigrant who built the kind of life Brooklyn doesn't give out easily — a brownstone, a nursing wife, two kids, a real future. He walked the last car of the last train every night for six years. He knew how to read a situation. He read this one wrong. In tonight's episode we tell the full story of Tony Smith — the MTA conductor who found a Jamaican woman crying alone on a dead train at midnight, made one decision he called charity, and spent the next two years managing a double life so complete and so carefully constructed that the people closest to him never saw it coming. Not until a phone call on his wife's birthday sent him across Brooklyn running stop signs — toward a Crown Heights restaurant, a man named Calvin McKenzie, and three shots that ended everything. This is not a story about a monster. It is a story about a good man who paid for one moment of not being honest with himself with everything he had built. His life. His family. His children's mornings. And the woman he loved, on the floor of a restaurant with his blood on her hands, telling the truth about all of it for the very first time.","meta_description":"He was a Jamaican immigrant who built the kind of life Brooklyn doesn't give out easily — a brownstone, a nursing wife, two kids, a real future. He walked…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2764,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/history-of-the-caribbeans-exploring-resilience-and-culture-7129356/episodes/he-left-his-wife-s-birthday-dinner-and-never-came-home/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-the-caribbeans-exploring-resilience-and-culture-7129356/he-left-his-wife-s-birthday-dinner-and-never-came-home.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}