{"podcast":{"title":"Side Story","slug":"side-story-7274458","podcast_index_feed_id":7274458,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/574115/rss","website_url":"https://sidestory.libsyn.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/7/2/b/7/72b77ec78240a9d816c3140a3186d450/sidestory-podast-cover-20250401-6pymi0cu0g.jpg","author":"Friends at the Table","episode_count":36,"summary":"Side Story is a bi-weekly podcast about games and the stories we tell about them, presented by Friends at the Table and supported by our patrons at friendsatthetable.cash.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T12:19:10.537944+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-story-7274458"},"episode":{"title":"16: Paradise Honk","slug":"16-paradise-honk","published_at":"2025-11-11T07:01:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-story-7274458/16-paradise-honk","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-story-7274458","url":"https://sidestory.show/16-paradise-honk","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/fa87551f-de56-4971-a0d1-a3c6eabc913f/Side_Story_16.mp3?dest-id=4970820","summary":"Between the barter system and the coin, there were other currencies. Cyrus the Great's Achaemenid Empire, which would one day stretchout from the Iranian plateau as far west as Egypt and north as the Aral Sea, used silver bullion when this-for-that wasn't an efficient enough means of trade. Could you decide who's paying for lunch on a flipped silver bar? Unsure. Perhaps, slightly later, the 'knife money' of the Zhou Dynasty or Old Chosŏn would be better suited for such chance game. Perhaps they tossed them straight up, wagering on them as they fell, to see if they'd stick in the ground. Yes, binary action is better for bets, but is the blade balanced for even odds? And so, let's give thanks to the Anatolian kingdom of Lydia, their electrum mines, and their little coins, discs with lions and stags punched in, begging to be flipped. Show Notes Tom Walker Coin Stream 1 Tom Walker Coin Stream 2 Autopsy Pile for Anthology of the Killer Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:01 Unfair Flips 21:47 Q-Up 01:01:18 Anthology of the Killer 01:24:22 Digmon Story: Time Stranger 01:29:06 Poco 01:31:58 Vein Featuring Austin Walker , Jack de Quidt , and Sylvi Bullet Produced by Austin Walker Cover Art by A Liang Chan Music by Jack de Quidt","meta_description":"Between the barter system and the coin, there were other currencies. Cyrus the Great's Achaemenid Empire, which would one day stretchout from the Iranian…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5999,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/side-story-7274458/episodes/16-paradise-honk/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/side-story-7274458/16-paradise-honk.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}