{"podcast":{"title":"My Lunch Break","slug":"my-lunch-break-6947955","podcast_index_feed_id":6947955,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f6e7e3ec/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Za5DiASIbqT8fuhiDBU6Q","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41323923/41323923-1716931079403-b990d51bf0243.jpg","author":"MY LUNCH BREAK","episode_count":1006,"summary":"I recap my daily life on my lunch break, talk about historical interests. - Private Investigator of History.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T16:18:08.930837+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-lunch-break-6947955"},"episode":{"title":"Istanbul Should NOT Exist - Pt 4 of 5","slug":"istanbul-should-not-exist-pt-4-of-5","published_at":"2026-05-08T19:15:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-lunch-break-6947955/istanbul-should-not-exist-pt-4-of-5","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-lunch-break-6947955","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/my-lunch-break/episodes/Istanbul-Should-NOT-Exist---Pt-4-of-5-e3j3l8k","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO7456602179.mp3","summary":"Thank you to Episode 146's Sponsor:Go to http://takelean.com and enter code MLB to get 20% off.Episode 146 of My Lunch Break dives even deeper into Istanbul’s hidden past, revealing evidence of vast, interconnected underground cisterns that challenge the city’s official history. Beneath today’s parks and stadiums lie enormous vaulted chambers and columns—structures far larger and more sophisticated than mere water reservoirs. This episode uncovers how these spaces, once part of a massive Old World palace, were buried or built over in the 20th century and presented as separate sites built centuries apart. With new maps, photographs, and examples like the Ipek Bodrum Cistern under a children’s park, the investigation raises a striking question: are the grand mosques and landmarks we see today just the visible tops of a much larger, hidden world?---- TO BECOME A BADGE MEMBER & HELP GROW THIS CHANNEL ----We now have 3 Tiers! (MLB Loyalty Badges! - Episode Dedication Spin! - Donkey's Inc. Club)HERE IS THE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Za5DiASIbqT8fuhiDBU6Q/joinJoin this channel to get access to perks!Thank you all for your support of this channel!Every Subscriber, every Like, All Comments are huge in helping spread this research to new people every single week. Every Badge Member and every Patreon Member help keep this channel running. I appreciate all of the support and I can't wait for every Saturday to expose even more information to the world. And we are just getting started!---- TO BECOME A BADGE MEMBER & HELP GROW THIS CHANNEL ----HERE IS THE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Za5DiASIbqT8fuhiDBU6Q/joinJoin this channel to get access to perks!T-shirts: https://my-lunch-break.myspreadshop.com/allTOP EPISODES PLAYLIST:https://www.youtube.com/pla…","meta_description":"Thank you to Episode 146's Sponsor:Go to http://takelean.com and enter code MLB to get 20% off.Episode 146 of My Lunch Break dives even deeper into Istanb…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1423,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-lunch-break-6947955/episodes/istanbul-should-not-exist-pt-4-of-5/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-lunch-break-6947955/istanbul-should-not-exist-pt-4-of-5.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}