{"podcast":{"title":"Jerm Warfare","slug":"jerm-warfare-7121194","podcast_index_feed_id":7121194,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/jerm-warfare-2025/feed.xml","website_url":"https://jermwarfare.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/jerm-warfare-2025/20260415_090435_4a1cafdae4cc1f834d73daac2b5e7b38.jpg","author":"Jerm","episode_count":303,"summary":"We’re constantly bombarded with fake news, propaganda, agendas, and outright lies. It’s an information war. What is true? I don’t know either—but I’m trying to find out, one dangerous idea at a time.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T22:18:00.274196+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194"},"episode":{"title":"The Spanish flu was a myth","slug":"the-spanish-flu-was-a-myth","published_at":"2026-09-07T07:14:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194/the-spanish-flu-was-a-myth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/jerm-warfare-2025/3130081","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/303972/3130081/jerm-warfare-2025/2026_09_07_07_13_31_28fa3c1f-d7c0-452f-9013-2f53b5fbd689.mp3","summary":"I recorded this in 2024, but it will always be relevant. Everything you were taught about this supposedly deadly virus from the early 20th century is nonsense. A lot of people did die, but not from a virus. So, if they didn't die from a virus, then what did they die from? What happened, as Michael Bryant explains, was a collection of war-related consequences. I mean, isn’t it a total coincidence that WW1 and the Spanish flu ended around the same time? 📺 Here's the video version.","meta_description":"I recorded this in 2024, but it will always be relevant. Everything you were taught about this supposedly deadly virus from the early 20th century is nons…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4100,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/jerm-warfare-7121194/episodes/the-spanish-flu-was-a-myth/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jerm-warfare-7121194/the-spanish-flu-was-a-myth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}