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Clown Cast

Joey Musselman

Podcasts about whatever I find interesting — history, tech, weird rabbit holes. I was making these for myself anyway, so I figured I'd share. Fully AI-generated: Claude researches and writes each episode, and Piper voices it, one of them trained on my own voice. It all runs on a pipeline I built with Claude Code on an old laptop in my house. Enjoy.

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78 episodes

  1. The USB Cable Problem: How AI Agents Finally Learned to Talk 18:45
  2. Eighty-One Trials: The Bureaucratic Knot in Journey to the West 18:29
  3. The Copper Cloud: When Confidentiality Breaks 18:51
  4. The Fear You Were Built For: FOMO's Ancient Roots 18:48
  5. Cheetahs Judging Cheetahs: The AI Model Collapse 19:02
  6. Why Things Break: How We Built Materials That Heal 18:37
  7. Engineered Failure: Why Broken Things Save Us 16:30
  8. Can a System Be Too Thorough? The Catch-22 Trap 15:52
  9. The Recall Notice: How Withdrawal Became History's Weapon 16:19
  10. Before Math, Before Reading: What Schools Graded First 20:36
  11. The Scouter Problem: How Fitness Tests Measure the Wrong Thing 17:15
  12. The Bed That Never Fits: When Testing Broke Education 17:24
  13. Measuring Chaos: How Jazz Breaks Its Own Rules 19:00
  14. The Signpost Heresy: How Breaking Rules Breaks Records 16:59
  15. Chaos Monkey: How Netflix Deliberately Breaks Production 19:00
  16. Exodia Reassembled: Can We Rebuild the Gymnasium? 16:42
  17. Ghost in the Machine: What Descartes Got Wrong 17:36
  18. Paying Volunteers: The Government's Open-Source Problem 15:48
  19. Short Chains, Strong Stamps 17:11
  20. The Breakup Episode: How Scotland Sold Independence 16:14
  21. The Cabinet Problem: When AI Writes the Masterpiece 16:43
  22. Constitutional Concrete: Why These Votes Are Forever 19:39
  23. Shadow AI and the Speakeasy Economy 17:12
  24. Twelve Angry Nodes: When Direct Democracy Breaks at Scale 21:32
  25. Dirty Laundry: The Psychology of Going Public 17:39
  26. Your Family is Your Backtesting Dataset 16:31
  27. Trust Me, I Graded My Own Homework 16:25
  28. Write Your Way Well: The Immune Science of Journaling 17:38
  29. The Sacred Spreadsheet: How Monks Invented Modern Finance 17:01
  30. Made of the Thing in Question 11:13
  31. Open Ledger: What My Projects Really Cost 12:49
  32. The Narrowing Door: AI and the Entry-Level Job Market 14:04
  33. Same Flask, Same Magic: The Polyjuice Problem 14:01
  34. Whose Work Is in It: The Copyright Fight Over AI Training 15:25
  35. The Room Is Flooding, But the Cups Are Getting Smaller 14:15
  36. Measure Twice, Know Nothing 13:25
  37. Monoculture: Why AI Concentration Creates Fragility 19:01
  38. The Spell Does Nothing, But the Wand Matters 16:47
  39. Utopia in Crisis: The Paradox of Disaster Trust 15:24
  40. The Longest Chain: Myth vs. Receipts 14:58
  41. The Restriction Is the Power 18:37
  42. The Spice Must Flow: When Preservation Became Conquest 15:00
  43. The Ghost in the Machine: Where Genius and Suffering Come From 18:35
  44. Control, Not Closure: What Trauma Research Found 17:12
  45. Same Swing, Different Data: Inside the Footage Gap 15:05
  46. Which Swing Numbers Are Real? 14:51
  47. The Shimmer: Why E-Waste Refuses to Stay Contained 17:55
  48. Eight People, Half the Try 17:49
  49. Unforgeable Proof: The Watermark Wars 19:45
  50. Measured, Not Read: The First Numbers 16:15