The Living Episode

AI Micro Dramas

Episode 146 · A conversation about attention, automation, and the price of one more episode.

Pick a moment. Follow the connections.

Follow an idea, not a timeline.

07:26 — 07:54

60-second stories

A soap opera built for your phone. The hosts unpack the short episodes, vertical format, and cliffhangers that keep viewers coming back.

You never have to rotate your phone, people.

Read this passage

From the supplied episode captions.

The cost of one more episode

Small payments. One complete story.

Episodes in the series 80 Free episodes 10 Price per paid episode $0.50

$35.0070 paid episodes to finish the story

Illustrative calculation using ranges discussed in the episode. It excludes subscriptions, bundles, and discounts.

Connected ideas

AI Micro Dramas

Episode 146 · Up Against Reality

00:00 / 37:16

A conversation you can explore.

The Living Episode connects eight moments from episode 146, AI Micro Dramas. Choose a glowing point to explore an idea, then listen to the original conversation.

Related ideas let you follow a theme across the episode. List view offers the same moments in listening order. The cliffhanger economy includes a small experiment with the pricing ranges discussed on the show.

Summaries describe the conversation; quotes and passages come from the supplied transcript. The connections are editorial choices, not a claim that one idea causes another.

Made for Up Against Reality with Astra in Codex. Audio starts only when you press play. This prototype runs locally without a live AI connection.