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Living for the City Podcast Transcripts

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Before Detroit gave the world Motown, techno, and hip-hop, it gave the world something harder to name: a feeling that music made in basements and backrooms and borrowed spaces could become the soundtrack to an entire generation's life.

Spoken has transcripts of 23 Living for the City episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from May 13, 2026.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1895831267/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}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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How Detroit's Working Class Built the Sound the Whole World Stole | Living for the City Ep. 1

May 13, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Detroit make they shit.

SPEAKER_2 (0:03)

There's a sense of hustle and never give up.

SPEAKER_3 (0:07)

All the genres come together in Detroit.

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