A note from the maker

Two synthetic voices, thinking through one subject at a time.

I make this show to teach myself to look more carefully. Each month I pick one subject — a material, a practice, an idea that won't leave me alone — and build a research file until it pushes back. Then two synthesized voices work it through: one holds the evidence, one holds what it feels like. They are the two halves of how I actually think, and I let them disagree.

The voices aren't an act, and the show tells you so before anything else. What I keep for myself is the choosing: which subject, which sources, which script survives review. Every claim is checked against the sources before it's voiced, and every episode ships with its transcript — the working, shown.

There's no ask at the end of an episode and there never will be. It ends on a question because that's where my studying stopped, and where yours might start.

— Hoyd Breton, Brooklyn

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