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The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios · 357 episodes with transcripts

Visit htwpod.com for ad-free listening and bonus content!This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history.

Spoken has transcripts of 357 HISTORY This Week episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 5, 2026.

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  | 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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Latest HISTORY This Week transcripts

The Freemasons Get Away With Murder (Probably)

October 5, 2026

Mark Schmeller (0:00)

The HISTORY Channel Original Podcast.

John Earl (0:04)

HISTORY This Week, October 7, 1827

I'm John Earl.

Mark Schmeller (3:23)

You have more Masonic lodges than churches in Western New York.

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