Skip to content
Fiasco artwork

Fiasco Podcast Transcripts

Pushkin Industries · 43 episodes with transcripts

Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country's most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present.

Spoken has transcripts of 43 Fiasco episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 8, 2025.

GovernmentHistory

Every Fiasco transcript in one script

43 episodes of Fiasco have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:

archive.sh
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1534780078/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

Already-saved files are skipped — safe to re-run after a top-up.

Latest Fiasco transcripts

Benghazi: Episode 1 - The Dictator

September 8, 2025

SPEAKER_2 (0:19)

Pushkin.

Leon Neyfakh (0:19)

Pushkin Plus subscriber. Sign up for Pushkin Plus on the Fiasco Apple Podcast Show page, or visit pushkin.fm slash plus. Now on to the show. On the night of September 11th, 2012, four Americans were killed in Benghazi, a city in Libya on the Mediterranean Sea.

SPEAKER_4 (0:46)

What potentially happened in Libya, in the city of Benghazi, not only did the attackers storm the building in Benghazi.

Keep reading this transcript

These are examples, not the full list — see everything available from this show via the API, get started.

Looking for a different show? Search for it to see whether it has transcripts you can fetch.

Thousands of transcripts fetched by people building searchable podcast archives

Any Fiasco episode comes back as Markdown with the speakers named, one credit each.

request
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000725047719

No subscription. Credits never expire. Prices exclude VAT, added at checkout for EU customers. Try free with pt_demo.