(Housekeeping note: Shell Game Season 2 picked up a Listener’s Choice award and a Gold Medal in the 2026 Signal Awards. Thanks, as always, to all you listeners who made it your choice, such that it became… a listener’s choice.)
We’re currently putting the finishing touches on the final episode of our three-part miniseries on AI slop, which will be dropping this week. In the meantime, for those who have already heard Episodes 1 and 2, we have a little bonus for your listening pleasure: the full pilot episodes created by our AI-hosted podcast mini-factory, Slopcast Stage. Now you can judge for yourself whether I was wrong to push for my particular favorite. (Warning: Spoilers ahead for Episodes 1 and 2!)
First, our interviews-with-a-famous-deceased-person show, Dead Air, with the episode “A Specification of a Man”:
Next up, our DMV wait times show Now Serving, with “Zero Minutes, Zero Windows, Zero Regrets”:
