I Used to be Somebody

Carl Landau

I Used to Be Somebody inspires 50+ year olds to build their (Un)Retired good life. Each month we interview cool, inspiring people about their retirement challenges and why and how they figured it out—turning this phase of life into an incredible, rewarding reality.

Topics: Careers, Business, Education, Self-Improvement

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112 episodes of I Used to be Somebody have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:

curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1531187617/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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Example Transcripts

Chris Taylor & Dan Haylett: 3rd Annual Meet the (Un)Retirement Experts August 4, 2026
Jim Beezley: Former Police Captain's Second Act with Major League Baseball July 14, 2026
Anne Del Core: TV Exec Turns Professional Artist June 9, 2026
Adam Bryant: NYT "Corner Office" Columnist moves to his own C-Suite February 13, 2024

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curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000779869045

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