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A Twist of History Podcast Transcripts

Ballen Studios · 21 episodes with transcripts

The course of history never follows a straight line. And very often, we can pinpoint a remarkable, thrilling twist, which changes everything that follows. These are the epic stories that have shaped the world we now live in.

Spoken has transcripts of 21 A Twist of History episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 24, 2025.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1811206832/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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The Affair of the Diamond Necklace

September 24, 2025

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Shopify's point-of-sale system helps you sell at every stage of your business. Need a fast and secure way to take payments in person? We've got you covered. How about card readers you can rely on anywhere you sell? Thanks, have a good one. Yep, that too. Want one place to manage all your online and in-person sales?…

Mr. Ballen (0:30)

Hey guys, it's me, Mr. Ballen. If you listened to last week's episode of A Twist of History, then you probably heard me mention that this show is coming to an end. This is the final episode of A Twist of History. I want to thank all of you once again for supporting us and for being such amazing fans of great…

Joel Blackwell (1:15)

There's no queen more notorious than Marie Antoinette. You've heard of her. The out-of-touch royal who said, Let them eat cake, when her subjects were out of bread. The last queen of France famously beheaded by the guillotine. In popular imagination, she was the problem that led to the entire French Revolution. But…

On today's episode, The Affair of the Diamond Necklace. This is A Twist of History.

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