I like this and want this for all podcasts I listen to. In particular Conversations with Tyler.
It strikes me that this may be a good use of local AI models: Have a recurring job to monitor a podcast feed, pull down the transcript of it (or generate one on the fly with Whisper), list the recommended books from that episode, and stitch together a feed of just the book recommendations.
Here is the creator’s blog post about it: https://sippey.com/2025/08/26/three-books-dot-net.html
This is the kind of AI use I prefer: Fast information processing on something that would be very tedious and not fun for a human. Writing a custom parsing script for different episodes would be tedious and fragile, too. Keep the fun creation for humans, leave tedious processing to the bots.
