“One Hen. Two Ducks.  Three Squawking Geese.”

And the rest is silence. 

Eight Chatbots, trained in latest, most efficient ways, undertake to teach a human being how to use a microphone.  In the process, they rediscover the classic “1940 National Broadcasting Corporation Radio Announcer Test”, conflate it with the canonical “12 Days of Christmas”, run roughshod through the western literary canon, retell the story of the Tower of Babel, and recreate their own ordinal poem (which probably has no more meaning than the two texts that form the basis for this show.)

Recorded globally on November 8, 2025.  

Refined locally in the weeks that followed.  

A story that may or may not be a parable for our future with Artificial Intelligence. 

Cast

/Written and Produced by David Alan Grier

HWMS 25100