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The Briefing

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We’re your friends in news.  Sacha Barbour Gatt and Chris Spyrou wake up early to bring you all the important daily news headlines.  Then, we deep dive on an essential news story that'll make you feel smarter about the world.  Listen every weekday to know more in minutes.

Topics: Daily News, News

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1507116817/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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  https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000787908116

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