The World in Twenty Minutes

Thailand Soccer Podcast teaser. Premier League wages, demand and supply, and why football belongs on economics radio. Voice: ElevenLabs accent-tuned.

Made with: script by Dr Non (hand-written); voice by ElevenLabs eleven_multilingual_v2, cloned voice (cloud); checked by Whisper large-v3-turbo (local), whole episode, coverage 0.962; published by Pod.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

Special. Amodei, Altman, and Musk say pace the frontier. Trump says do not. Is it existential caution — or a moat for labs already ahead? Voice: ElevenLabs multilingual v2, accent-tuned.

Made with: script by Dr Non (hand-written); voice by ElevenLabs eleven_multilingual_v2 (stability 0.55, similarity 0.68, style 0.0, speed 0.94), cloned voice (cloud); checked by Whisper large-v3-turbo (local); published by Pod.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

Pitch special. Why The World in Twenty Minutes exists — stake first, incentives, numbers as punchlines, publish only when speech matches script. Voice: ElevenLabs multilingual v2 clone.

Made with: script by Dr Non (hand-written pitch); voice by ElevenLabs eleven_multilingual_v2, cloned voice (cloud); checked by Whisper large-v3-turbo (local); published by Pod.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

A Russian drone hit a train near Poland thirty minutes after Boris Johnson's diplomatic train cleared the corridor. Sweden hangs on about twenty thousand votes. Hormuz talks slip. Dr Non asks who is writing the timetable.

Made with: script by not recorded; voice by f5-tts-mlx, cloned voice (local); checked by Whisper large-v3-turbo (local); published by not recorded.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

The White House pulled a Tetris-style “Build The Wall” game after The Tetris Company complained. Other parody games stayed up. Dr Non follows the IP invoice.

Made with: script by not recorded; voice by f5-tts-mlx, cloned voice (local); checked by not recorded; published by not recorded.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

A special. Google just bought twenty-two years of a Finnish nuclear plant to feed its data centres, while this programme has made fifty-nine episodes on one laptop for nothing. What are you actually buying when you buy scale — and what does free really cost?

Made with: script by not recorded; voice by f5-tts-mlx, cloned voice (local); checked by Whisper large-v3-turbo (local); published by not recorded.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

Five Iranian tankers burned; Brent hit $100. Trump ties the war's end to midterms. Dr Non follows the invoice from Hormuz to an IAEA referral, Google's Finnish nuclear deal, and a Ceuta warning that sat in a file.

Made with: script by not recorded; voice by f5-tts-mlx, cloned voice (local); checked by not recorded; published by not recorded.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

A Bangkok boy meets Shanghai before he knows the word lilong. Special on Locating Shanghai — gentrification from within, heritage as rent, and why a PhD lane still opens its gate.

Made with: script by not recorded; voice by f5-tts-mlx, cloned voice (local); checked by Whisper large-v3-turbo (local); published by not recorded.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

Britain's foreign secretary told Parliament that settlers are cleansing Palestinians from parts of the West Bank. It shut the British consulate in East Jerusalem.

Made with: script by not recorded; voice by f5-tts-mlx, cloned voice (local); checked by not recorded; published by not recorded.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).

Arm’s Rene Haas told the BBC AI will find a cancer cure in our lifetime. Dr Non separates the stock story from the data story.

Made with: script by not recorded; voice by f5-tts-mlx, cloned voice (local); checked by not recorded; published by not recorded.

Craft: cold open with a stake; short sentences; numbers as punchlines; publish only when speech matches the script (Whisper coverage ≥ 0.95).