{"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":"Jamaican Gangster - He Left His Wife's Birthday Dinner and Never Came Home","slug":"jamaican-gangster-he-left-his-wife-s-birthday-dinner-and-never-came-home","published_at":"2026-06-16T08:34:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-the-caribbeans-exploring-resilience-and-culture-7129356/jamaican-gangster-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/jamaican-gangster-he-left-his-wifes-birthday-dinner-and-never-came-home","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/696791fa7737c1-14460688/2491414/c1e-0ox26f7zjm0u10162-pkn7jn3ohzrw-vivbrx.mp3","summary":"A Jamaican MTA conductor in Brooklyn. A wife who trusted him completely. A woman he found crying on the last train of his shift. And one act of kindness that became a two-year double life that ended in three gunshots in a Crown Heights restaurant on his wife's birthday night. This is the story of Tony Smith. A good man. A present father. A husband who built something real — a brownstone on Hendrix Street, a family, a life that cost years to build. And a man who made one decision he told himself was charity, then kept making it, one lie at a time, until there was nothing left to save. Tony didn't set out to destroy his family. He sat down across from a crying woman on a dead train at midnight. He texted his wife. He thought he was done. He was not done. This is what a double life actually costs. Not just the man running it — but the wife in the blue dress who trusted him. The children who didn't know yet. The grandmother who watched it assemble itself and said nothing. And the woman on a Crown Heights floor with blood on her hands who told the truth when it was the only thing she had left to give. Subscribe and turn on notifications — new Caribbean stories every week.","meta_description":"A Jamaican MTA conductor in Brooklyn. A wife who trusted him completely. A woman he found crying on the last train of his shift. And one act of kindness t…","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/jamaican-gangster-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/jamaican-gangster-he-left-his-wife-s-birthday-dinner-and-never-came-home.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}