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ACLU · 355 episodes with transcripts

Let The Record Show is a U.S. history podcast that looks back on legal precedent to make sense of our ever-evolving future. On every episode we explore the people, places and stories behind major court cases that shape how we live our lives today.

Spoken has transcripts of 355 Let The Record Show episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 7, 2026.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1396174920/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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The Case That Gave the Modern Supreme Court Its Power

October 7, 2026

Shereen Mahdi-Somiraji (0:00)

Hey, everybody, I'm Shereen Mahdi-Somiraji. I'm a journalist and a professor based in California.

Matt Beat (0:06)

And I'm Matt Beat. I'm a history teacher and YouTuber based in Kansas.

Shereen Mahdi-Somiraji (0:10)

And we're co-hosts of the ACLU podcast Let The Record Show, where every episode, we explore a case from US history.

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