Give it a topic. Get back a narrated podcast episode — researched by Claude, written for the ear, voiced by a local neural model.
pip install earworm-pod View on GitHubHow it works
Two halves that share nothing but a folder: a slow, agentic generator and a fast, deterministic renderer. A topic flows through four passes.
- 01 Research Claude searches the web and writes a sourced report on the topic.
- 02 Review An adversarial pass hunts the buried lead and the claims that don’t hold up.
- 03 Script The report is rewritten for the ear — spoken language, not a read-aloud essay.
- 04 Render A local neural voice (Kokoro) narrates it and masters to broadcast loudness.
Listen
Three episodes, each generated end-to-end by the pipeline above.
JWST and the Black Holes That Came Too Soon
10:04The “JWST broke cosmology” panic quietly collapsed — and walking it back revealed something stranger: a universe that seems to have built its giant black holes first, before its stars.
Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Our Heads? The Science of Earworms
08:08Earworms aren’t a quirk of musical sensitivity — they’re a window into the brain’s habitual memory machinery, and new research suggests they may actually be useful.
Dwarf Fortress: The Game That’s Discovered, Not Designed
08:35The depth everyone marvels at isn’t the point — Tarn and Zach Adams built a simulation so internally consistent that they treat its bugs as discoveries about how their world works.