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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://spoken.md/podcasts/73330484/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
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Latest Bookworm transcripts
Friends of Michael
September 20, 2023
SPEAKER_1 (0:00)
Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannan Foundation.
Michael Silverblatt (0:37)
From KCRW and kcrw.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt and this is Bookworm. You've just heard something brand new, Bookworm's new theme music written and performed by the fantastic brilliant thrilling rock band Sparks.
I have Sparks here with me today. I'm so excited to be talking with the legendary rockers from Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael. Now, I'm so completely thrilled. This is the dream of a lifetime. For me, if George Gershwin had written the theme song for Bookworm, it couldn't be better than Sparks.
Ron Mael (1:26)
Well, to be honest, Michael, it's a dream come true for us as well partly just because of our respect for your show and for you personally. So to do something so personalized was something really special for us.
Then we've been working in the song territory for like 250 songs now and so of late, we've been working in longer and longer and longer ways to break out of that cycle. So when we were approached to do a theme song for your show, it was kind of running counter to our whole mindset of late to do something that only…
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