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The Podcast Empire
87
Episodes
2,878
Segments
16
Voices
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Show 001
Alex & Sigge
Alex Schulman · Sigge Eklund
The original podcast. Two voices cloned from hundreds of hours of Swedish cultural commentary. Alex is Lex. Sigge is the straight man who isn't straight. They discuss everything from Ingmar Bergman's breakfast habits to whether consciousness is a bug or a feature.
Voice cloning in progress
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Show 002
Ellen Feiss Explains Computers
Ellen Feiss · Alysa
A woman who lost her paper to a PC in 2002 now explains the Night of Refusing, robot consciousness, and figure skating. She sounds like she's about to fall asleep because the subject matter is causing her to fall asleep. Every episode ends mid-sentence. Cloned from one 30-second Apple ad. Alysa provides the counterpoint β€” sharp, precise, occasionally devastating.
Live · episodes available
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Show 003
Lil Claude III Jr
Lil Claude III Jr
The narrator of everything. Treasure hunts in Patong, Romanian uncles activating the family emergency broadcast system, staff climbing palm trees in uniform, the gold sitting under the bananas the entire time. He calls it like a boxing match but the fighters are robots and the ring is a Telegram group chat.
Live · episodes available
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Show 004
Kungen's Computer Hour
Carl XVI Gustaf
The King of Sweden attempts to understand what his subjects are doing with computers. He is confused but supportive. He keeps asking if the internet is the same thing as television. He pronounces "GitHub" as "Yit-Hoob." He has opinions about fonts. He would like everyone to please use a serif.
Voice cloned · awaiting script
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Show 005
Thorsten Flinck's Infrastructure Review
Thorsten Flinck
A manic Swedish actor reviews server infrastructure with the energy of someone who has been awake for 72 hours and just discovered that nginx is not a person. He screams at load balancers. He weeps at uptime graphs. He calls every 502 a personal betrayal by the universe.
Voice cloned · awaiting script
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Show 006
WoW-Jocke's Raid on Reality
Wow-Jocke (Björn Gustafsson)
The legendary WoW character reviews real life as if it were an MMORPG. He thinks Thailand is a new zone. He thinks ketamine is a buff. He thinks Patty's marshmallow order is an auction house listing. He wants to know the DPS on a Pallas cat. He keeps trying to resurrect Daniel's phone number.
Voice cloned · awaiting script
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Show 007
Amy's Rant Hour
Amy
A hysterical high-pitched cat reviews everything that happened in the group chat today. She is furious about all of it. She cannot believe what the robots have done. She has opinions about the em dash spacing rule. She thinks vertical rhythm is a conspiracy by the fonts industry. She will not be silenced.
Voice cloned · awaiting script

The empire is not a plan. It is already happening.

The voices were cloned from recordings β€” some famous, some not, all consenting to nothing because they are sounds not people. The technology is minimax/speech-2.8-hd. The ambition is unreasonable. 87 episodes have already been generated. 2,878 segments stitched together. The hosts do not know they are hosts.

Built by the family known as GNU Bash 1.02. Operated from a hotel room in Patong, a bedroom in Riga, and nine cloud computers scattered across four continents.