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From the blog · Behind the scenes What One Episode Costs to Make About 27 cents with a premium model writing the script, about 16 cents with a cheaper one. Where the money goes, as of 31 October 2026, and how much a single sponsor could take off.
Step into the studio The hosts are real plushies — we scanned them and built them a 3D set. How it works From a voice prompt to a finished episode: script, voices, assembly. Creator's picks Daniel's favourite episodes — a good place to start.

#6416: Family First Aid Audiobook: Adults

Israeli emergency protocols explicitly instruct rescuers never to give back blows to a choking adult.

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#6415: Family First Aid Audiobook: Children and Infants

For an infant or child in cardiac arrest when alone, rescuers must deliver two minutes of CPR before pausing to call emergency services.

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#6414: Scaling an Architecture Practice Without Adding Staff

Seventy percent of a construction specification is reusable across projects, offering small practices a clear opening to automate and productize.

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#6413: Why Pedestrian Fatalities Keep Rising on City Streets

Vehicles with front hoods over forty inches tall are forty-five percent more likely to kill a pedestrian than lower, sloping models.

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#6412: Why the Trump-Netanyahu Clash on Iran Is About Timing

Leaked accounts of a high-stakes call reveal a fight over the clock: strikes immediately after midterms or waiting on Qatari diplomacy.

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#6411: Why Two Kitchens Keep Multigenerational Homes Peaceful

Japan has spent fifty years engineering multigenerational homes, finding two separate kitchens matter far more than separate bathrooms.

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#6410: Why Morning Voice Happens and What Warming Up Does

Overnight, cilia slow down and mucus pools at the vocal folds, leaving voices stiff and prone to irritation.

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#6409: Why Speech Models Break at Chunk Seams

Shifting an audio transcription window by just one second can lose entire words or drop capitals mid-sentence without changing the model weights.

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#6408: Why Speech Model Fine-Tuning Demands Clean Restarts

Fine-tuning only on new vocabulary causes catastrophic forgetting, whereas joint training on old and new data provides the optimal benchmark.

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#6407: Designing a Typeface as an Engineered System

Round letters must poke roughly two percent past vertical guidelines to appear the same height as flat letters to the human eye.

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