{"podcast":{"title":"The Michael Shermer Show","slug":"the-michael-shermer-show-444422","podcast_index_feed_id":444422,"rss_url":"https://sciencesalon.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/3/e/3/63e344572bed54e488c4a68c3ddbc4f2/The_Michael_Shermer_Show_logo_2023.jpg","author":"Michael Shermer","episode_count":631,"summary":"The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T18:19:28.702187+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422"},"episode":{"title":"The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real","slug":"the-zodiac-killer-wasn-t-real","published_at":"2026-06-13T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-zodiac-killer-wasn-t-real","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/sciencesalon/mss618_Eddie_McNamara_2026_06_13.mp3","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss618_Eddie_McNamara_2026_06_13.mp3?dest-id=513978","summary":"The Zodiac Killer has been treated for decades as America's ultimate unsolved true crime mystery: one mysterious killer, taunting letters, cryptic ciphers, a strange costume, and a trail of victims across Northern California. Eddie McNamara thinks that story is wrong. The victims were real, the crimes were real, but the single mastermind may have been a media-made myth. Eddie McNamara is the author of Zodiactually: The Real Story of a Fake Serial Killer , Toss Your Own Salad: The Meatless Cookbook , Brooklyn Hardcore , and Two Fare Zone . He's a former cop, 9/11 first responder, trained chef, and a columnist for Penthouse magazine.","meta_description":"The Zodiac Killer has been treated for decades as America's ultimate unsolved true crime mystery: one mysterious killer, taunting letters, cryptic ciphers…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5954,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/episodes/the-zodiac-killer-wasn-t-real/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-zodiac-killer-wasn-t-real.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}