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Cannot extract certain podcast from podcast.apple.com

See original GitHub issue

Checklist

I’m reporting a broken site support
I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

[debug] System config: ['--prefer-free-formats']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--skip-download', 'https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/4-on-the-horn-with-adam-kovacevich/id1585883787?i=1000539806607', '--write-info-json', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.9.6 (CPython) - Linux-5.13.9-100.fc33.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.32
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.3.2, ffprobe 4.3.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ApplePodcasts] 1000539806607: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract ember data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/applepodcasts.py", line 42, in _real_extract
    ember_data = self._parse_json(self._search_regex(
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1012, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract ember data; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.