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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://spoken.md/podcasts/1434243584/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}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
-o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id
sleep 0.34
done
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Example Transcripts
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires June 30, 2026
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln May 29, 2026
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet May 6, 2026
#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age April 9, 2026
#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution March 23, 2026
#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming March 11, 2026
#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music March 1, 2026
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger February 12, 2026
#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI February 1, 2026
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle January 13, 2026
#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins December 31, 2025
#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths December 12, 2025
#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life November 30, 2025
#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy November 17, 2025
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming October 31, 2025
#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex October 14, 2025
#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature October 1, 2025
#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA September 19, 2025
#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park September 4, 2025
#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories August 29, 2025
#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism August 13, 2025
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire August 1, 2025
#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games July 23, 2025
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting July 12, 2025
#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming April 30, 2025
#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life August 20, 2024
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet June 19, 2024
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI March 18, 2024
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI March 7, 2024
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics February 16, 2024
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality September 17, 2022
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets August 4, 2022
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation July 29, 2022
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence August 8, 2021
#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano June 16, 2021
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks May 1, 2021
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning May 8, 2020
#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning May 5, 2020
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI September 14, 2019
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence July 1, 2019
Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror November 29, 2018
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