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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson Podcast Transcripts

Andrew Sharp and Ben Thompson · 291 episodes with transcripts

A podcast about understanding how tech works and the way it is changing the world. Hosted by Andrew Sharp with Ben Thompson.

Spoken has transcripts of 291 Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 15, 2026.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1646152812/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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October 15, 2026

Andrew Sharp (0:00)

Hello, and welcome to a free preview of Sharp Tech. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Sharp Tech. I'm Andrew Sharp, and sitting across from me in a hotel room, Ben Thompson, Ben, how are you doing?

Ben Thompson (0:20)

Well, not just sitting across from you, sitting across from you on the floor in solidarity, because your desk chair is the creakiest chair in history.

Andrew Sharp (0:30)

It's a great setup today. Absolutely. I sat down in the guest chair, and I was like, this is actually not going to work. The desk chair, that is not the guest chair.

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