example.php

$re = '/[\*].*(gimlet)(.+?\n\n)/';
$str = '* Google Play Music have [buttons for your podcasts](https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges-music/). Note, however, that outside the US, they just redirect to the front page of Google Play. One step forward, one step back.

* Recommended: [ReplyAll investigates Facebook](https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/) using your phone\'s microphone to spy on your conversations. And, how to stop them doing it, even though they\'re not.

* Event: on now in Austin TX, USA: [Media Tech Week](https://mediatechweek.live/)';

preg_match($re, $str, $matches);
var_dump($matches);