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Modern Love Podcast Transcripts

The New York Times · 509 episodes with transcripts

For more than 20 years, the Modern Love column has given New York Times readers a glimpse into the complicated love lives of real people. Since its start, the column has evolved into a TV show, three books and a podcast.

Spoken has transcripts of 509 Modern Love episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 23, 2026.

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archive.sh
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1065559535/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 Modern Love transcripts

I Left My Fiancé, My Church and My Shame

September 23, 2026

Anna Martin (0:01)

Hey, everyone, it's Anna. Okay, before we get into today's conversation, I want to talk to the New York Times subscribers who are listening right now. And I want to say thank you. Your support helps us make the show, empowers all the other storytelling and journalism coming out of the Times.

And now I want to talk to the people who are not subscribers yet. Now when you download the New York Times app for the first time, your first month in the app is free. That's 30 days of access to our journalism, including all of the Modern Love episodes from our archive, totally free, no credit card required…

Taylor Tomlinson (0:43)

I feel the love.

Anna Martin (0:44)

Love. And I love you more than anything.

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