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The Wall Street Journal · 297 episodes with transcripts

WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal.

Spoken has transcripts of 297 Bold Names episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from April 10, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1234320525/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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McDonald's CEO on Going Viral, the Big Arch and the Fast-Food Value War

April 10, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Tim Higgins (0:19)

It's a little weird to watch each other eat.

Chris Kempczinski (0:21)

Yeah, well, imagine how I felt.

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