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The President's Daily Brief

The First TV

Each morning, the President of the United States receives a highly classified briefing on the most important issues facing the country -- The President's Daily Brief. Now you can hear your very own PDB, in the form of a podcast, every morning at 6am Eastern, and every afternoon at 4pm Eastern.

Topics: Politics, News

Transcribe the entire archive

1,880 episodes of The President's Daily Brief have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:

curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1617887885/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

Already-saved files are skipped — safe to re-run after a top-up.

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Example Transcripts

These are examples, not the full list — see everything available from this show via the API, get started.

Thousands of transcripts fetched by people building searchable podcast archives

Get any The President's Daily Brief episode as clean, speaker-labeled Markdown — ready for your AI agent.

curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000787926681

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