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Quirks and Quarks Podcast Transcripts

CBC · 48 episodes with transcripts

CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.

Spoken has transcripts of 48 Quirks and Quarks episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 2, 2026.

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archive.sh
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/151485804/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 Quirks and Quarks transcripts

How feasting black holes time their burps

October 2, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

This week on Two Blocks from the White House.

SPEAKER_2 (0:02)

Polls are predicting significant wins for the Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. And it's affecting how both parties are behaving on the campaign trail.

SPEAKER_1 (0:11)

So this week we're asking, is a blue Democratic wave inevitable?

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