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How To Be A Better Human isn’t your average self improvement podcast. Each week join Chris Duffy in conversation with guests and past speakers as they uncover sharp insights and give clear takeaways on how YOU can be a better human.

Spoken has transcripts of 429 How to Be a Better Human episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 19, 2026.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1544098624/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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Latest How to Be a Better Human transcripts

Why do we like scary stories? (w/ Glynn Washington)

October 19, 2026

Chris Duffy (0:00)

Hi there, Better Human listeners. Really quick, before we get to our episode, you would be doing me a huge favor and really helping out our show if you could take a moment to fill out our listener survey at bit.ly slash bhsurvey6. That's B-I-T dot L-Y slash bhsurvey6. You can also find a link that you can just click…

Please tell us what is resonating with you, what you want more of, what you'd like to see changed, topics you would like to see covered. Your honest feedback means the world to us. It just takes a few seconds of your time and it would really help us to improve the show and have future seasons be even better. Thank…

Glynn Washington (2:26)

There are times when you're supposedly all alone, when you feel someone, something watching you. You see her, him, it, out of the corner of your eye, you hear, whispers the all most voices, and you try to believe that you're imagining the whole thing, but what if you're not?

We're going in search of the other side.

SPEAKER_3 (2:57)

Stay tuned.

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