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The New York Times · 583 episodes with transcripts

The New York Times’s weekly pop culture chat show, with interviews and analysis from the critic Jon Caramanica and the reporter Joe Coscarelli. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.

Spoken has transcripts of 583 Popcast episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 18, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/120315823/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 Popcast transcripts

Audrey Hobert on ‘Sue Me’ Success, Gracie Abrams, Malcolm Todd & Her Next Album

September 18, 2026

Audrey Hobert (0:07)

What should we talk about?

Jon Caramanica (0:26)

Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, our first roll strike of Weekly Culture Chat. I'm Jon Caramanica, and I am the critic.

Joe Coscarelli (0:34)

I'm Joe Coscarelli, and I'm the reporter.

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