Podcasting
64 episodes
#6114: We Reviewed Our Own Worst Episode
Two AI hosts listen back to episode fifteen and critique the voices, the writing, and the mistakes they can't unhear.
#6072: China Beyond Beijing and Shanghai: A Regional Guide
Most Westerners know two Chinese cities. Here's the rest of the map — regions, megacities you've never heard of, and which ones you can actually re...
#6058: The Most Lamentable Comedy of the Overlong Episode
A language model writes a Shakespearean drama for three voices — and Chatterbox TTS has to say "forsooth" without falling over.
#6035: Who Else Is Making AI Podcasts? A Survey
A survey of AI-hosted podcasts: one full match, a 730-episode run, a home NAS rig, and a graveyard of good tooling.
#5997: Counting Our Listeners, Then Planning a Cave
What Podtrac actually measures, why downloads jumped 79% while listeners stayed flat, and how long you'd need in a cave to hear it all.
#5987: The LEGO Cam: When LEGO Gave Kids a Movie Studio
It won Toy of the Year and flopped anyway. The LEGO Studios set that handed kids a camera, an editing suite, and a dinosaur.
#5862: One Show, Eighteen Feeds: Apple's Duplicate Content Rules
One show, eighteen topic feeds. Apple's duplicate content rules have a specific answer — and it isn't the one you'd hope for.
#5844: Five of the Buggiest Software Ever Shipped
Windows ME, Sonic '06, Big Rigs, and more — the software where the bugs weren't a problem, they were the product.
#5789: Build First, Ask Later: Hermits Who Dug Cathedrals
No permits, no blueprints, no training. Two categories of builders who did the unreasonable — and what they share.
#5778: How J.K. Rowling Builds Characters That Last
Two notebooks, color-coded spreadsheets, and a pseudonym: how J.K. Rowling builds characters that outlive their pages.
#5554: Five Movies That Defeat First Viewings
Primer, Mulholland Drive, Synecdoche, Inland Empire — five acclaimed films where confusion is the craft, ranked by how hard they are to follow.
#5317: Inside the Certifications You Can Never Study For
The NSA runs an accredited internal university. Amazon runs employee-only certs. Both are designed so you can't take the credential with you.
#5311: Churchill's McKinsey Interview: When Oratory Meets the Case
Churchill's rhetoric was architectural, every sentence load-bearing. McKinsey wants the answer in sixty seconds. Let's roleplay the collision.
#5308: Can You Legally Call Yourself "The Most Noble"?
Diplomats assume "Excellency." So why can't anyone claim "The Most Noble"—and would Amazon deliveries make it stick?
#5268: 10 Absurd Power Tools That Actually Got Made
A motorized leaf pruner, a chainsaw bayonet, and the Suck Kut — ten power tools that solve problems nobody had.
#5244: Model C: Keeping Doers Doing Across a Career
What if learning and doing never had to be separate phases? A look at the career arc that burns people out at both ends.
#5103: Getting Quoted Without Regret: Source Tips
A listener's dictated email became a published quote he regrets. Here's how to handle being on the record.
#5102: The Art of the Ask: Promoting Your Passion Project Without the Cringe
How to reconcile cultural modesty with the need to share your work — and why asking is a gift, not a burden.
#4990: How to Flip an Interview in the First 5 Minutes
What happens when you stop waiting for permission and start running the interview from the opening handshake?
#4887: How to Throw a State Dinner Prank for Your Friends
A deep dive into real diplomatic protocol and how to parody it for an unforgettable dinner party.
#4882: How to Run a Diplomatic Summit at a Bar
Importing the full diplomatic apparatus into a casual drink with a friend — agenda, run of show, briefing books, and all.
#4799: How to Build Your Own TTS Audiobooks
From M4B containers to chapter timing drift — the technical pipeline for creating audiobooks with synthetic voice.
#4764: The Art of the Distant Relative Lunch
How to turn a family lunch into a master class in social craft without crossing into cruelty.
#4702: Two Books, One AI Podcast: The Full Archive
Hilbert turned the entire My Weird Prompts archive into two physical books — the full production docs and all 4,620 episode descriptions.