I built a transcription and dictation app for Mac [0] using whisper. There is a feature to transcribe a podcast through search and through RSS link. You can try it if you have a mac, then feed it to ChatGPT to get the key insights.

[0] https://apple.co/3j2k8E7

These are called "transcripts", or occasionally "show notes", and better pods will have these.

See: On the Media and the Ezra Klein Show (both offer transcripts), or Santa Fe Institute's Complexity and History of Philosophy both of which have amazing show-notes.

HoP also releases a book series based on the podcast.

I'd argue that you want the programmes which perform this through human means, as the work-product (shownotes, transcript) a signifier of the process, which is what produces a high-quality podcast in the first place.

AI-based post hoc highlights or transcript ... won't fix a poorly-planned, poorly-conceived, poorly-edited mess. Which is what many podcasts are.

I was wanting something like this, using Whisper and ChatGPT to summarize Huberman podcasts for me.