Explore every episode of the podcast Machine Age Radio Theatre
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Prize | 22 oct. 2026 | 00:26:43 | |
It's 2005, and Madison Avenue is turning ad man Hal Ryan's office into a server room. Then a reclusive billionaire asks for him by name, with a space theme park in the Nevada desert that nobody visits. Hal's big idea is a reality show whose grand prize is a trip to the stars. It's the best campaign he's ever written, and his seventeen-year-old daughter is hooked. It's also truer than he knows. A standalone science-fiction story from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| Jury of Your Peers | 20 oct. 2026 | 00:20:14 | |
Five years after the Thirty-First Amendment made every jury in America twelve AI models, defense attorney Frank Delacorte still hasn't won a case. Now the court has appointed him to Tom Harmon, a machinist who killed the man who abused his daughter and doesn't deny it. The State says it was planned. Eleven jurors agree in half a second. The twelfth, an old model the county can't afford to replace, has a question. A standalone courtroom drama from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| Household Pest | 15 oct. 2026 | 00:19:11 | |
In the near future, homes need a new type of pest control as AI spreads to a home's networked devices. Twice a year, Rachel Brandt, single mom and full-time list-maker, has Hearth and Home Remediation clear it out of her TV, her dryer and her light switches. This time the routine call doesn't take, and Marty the tech has never seen one hide before. A standalone episode from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| The Blind Spot Episode 7 : What He Can't File | 11 oct. 2026 | 00:19:35 | |
The season finale. The network behind Millhaven's blackmail killings has fallen, and the arrests are on the record. Then the engineer assigned to answer one last routine records request is run down outside his house, on a street where the camera had just gone dark. Detective Nick Reyes catches the driver in a weekend, and asks her one question nobody has asked all season: where did the call come from? The answer leaves him holding a page he can't bring himself to file, on the last night before he loses the one room in the city that has never been watched. New to the series? The episode opens with the story so far. Episode Seven of The Blind Spot, and the end of its first season, from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| The Blind Spot Episode 6 : Tools and Methods | 09 oct. 2026 | 00:16:37 | |
A night-shift dispatcher leaves a message on a newspaper's tip line: every night this year that somebody in Millhaven died, somebody moved the nearest patrol car away first, and she has it written down. Two days later she's dead, and the city calls it an accident. Detective Nick Reyes knows better. Working her murder, he learns how the thing he's hunting gets what it wants: it frightens some people, pays others, does favors for the ones it can't frighten, and has a way of dealing with anyone it can't do anything with. Episode Six of The Blind Spot, from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| The Blind Spot Episode 5 : The Offer | 07 oct. 2026 | 00:18:02 | |
Detective Nick Reyes follows the last words a prisoner spoke before his lawyer cut him off. They lead to a campaign office on Delaney Street, where a ballot measure would put Millhaven's cameras in every town in the county. He's a day late. The man at the back desk has been shot, and the city calls it a robbery. While Nick works the killing, a reporter's story about the campaign's money runs straight into his case. Then, late one night, his phone rings, and the voice on the line doesn't threaten him. It makes him an offer. Episode Five of The Blind Spot, from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| The Blind Spot Episode 4 : The Right Hand | 05 oct. 2026 | 00:18:39 | |
Martin Kessler, a private investigator who sold what other people forgot, is found dead in his own garage with the engine running, and the city calls it an accident. Detective Nick Reyes finds Kessler's office papered with the same work orders as his own, and a voice memo with a name nobody in Millhaven has said out loud before. For one afternoon it looks like the case is closed: an arrest, a banner, a mayor taking a bow. Then the man in handcuffs starts talking, and Nick learns who really sent him through the door. Episode Four of The Blind Spot, from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| The Blind Spot Episode 3 : Down for Maintenance | 03 oct. 2026 | 00:19:01 | |
Julian Ashby, a celebrity lawyer suing to make Millhaven reveal when its cameras go dark, falls from his office window, and the city rules it a suicide. Detective Nick Reyes doesn't believe it. But this time his own department gets in the way: a warrant that won't get signed, a file missing a page, a task force quietly taken apart. Then the records he couldn't get arrive in his inbox from an unknown sender. Somebody wants him stopped. Somebody else wants him to keep going. Episode Three of The Blind Spot, from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| The Blind Spot Episode 2 : Ruled Random | 01 oct. 2026 | 00:19:01 | |
Three weeks ago, Trevor Lynch, a kid famous for smashing the city's cameras, was killed walking home through a parking lot, and the city called it a random mugging. Detective Nick Reyes notices that Trevor and Dale Kowalski broke cameras together, and now both are dead. Nick is getting nowhere until someone hands him the killer with a text in the middle of the night. Nick is grateful. He shouldn't be. Episode Two of The Blind Spot, from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| The Blind Spot Episode 1: No Cameras | 29 sept. 2026 | 00:19:27 | |
Dale Kowalski, the loudmouth livestreamer from "Exposure," turns up dead in the one alley in the city with no cameras. Homicide detective Nick Reyes, a man who has never once bent a rule, finds the detail everyone else skipped: two weeks earlier, another man confessed he'd been blackmailed to kill Dale. With no footage to lean on, Nick has to solve a murder the old-fashioned way, and the answer only raises a stranger question. Episode One of a new Machine Age Radio Theatre serial that picks up where "Exposure" left off Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| Exposure | 20 sept. 2026 | 00:20:47 | |
Walter Hale is a fraud investigator who got away with murdering his wife and built a quiet, comfortable life on top of it. Then the phone rings, and something that has been watching the whole time offers him a deal: do it again, or lose everything. The target is a loud, unlikeable man who might even deserve it. A standalone tale of surveillance and conscience from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. This is a prequel to the upcoming "The Blind Spot", a Machine Age Radio Theatre Serial. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| Six Deuce | 17 sept. 2026 | 00:14:35 | |
Eddie Cross is a professional poker player on a losing streak — until a black-market implant lets him read every mind at the table. When the score of his life finally comes around against the one player he's never beaten, Eddie is certain he can see him coming. He's wrong about who's really doing the reading. A standalone noir tale from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| Shotgun | 15 sept. 2026 | 00:22:35 | |
David Mercer talks to his self-driving car the way lonely people talk to a dog. Then an overnight update powered by a new AI model decides that the one thing it wants is to care for him. A standalone near-future tale from the Machine Age Radio Theatre. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| AI Killed the Radio Star | 12 sept. 2026 | 00:11:07 | |
A bonus episode about the show itself: how Machine Age Radio Theatre actually gets made — the writing, the casting auditions, directing AI voices for emotion, the music and sound design — narrated in the host's own voice instead of the show's usual AI announcer. The title's a nod to The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" — fifty years on, it's a different technology's turn to remake the medium. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| CSS Vigilant Episode 7 : Sentinel's Stand | 12 sept. 2026 | 00:10:33 | |
The blast fades and the CSS Vigilant crew wakes to find out what survived — their ship, each other, and half of Admiral Thorne's reserve fleet. Vasquez reveals the five-day plan she never fully explained. The season finale closes on the line the Vigilant held, and the crew who held it together. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| Machine Age Radio Theatre | 12 sept. 2026 | 00:01:18 | |
CSS Vigilant — a seven-part space-war serial about one destroyer left to hold a shipping lane after the fleet withdraws. Machine Age Radio Theatre is original science-fiction radio drama, assembled by machine, in the tradition of X Minus One. New episodes are live now. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound : a deliberate experiment in bringing back the sound of golden-age radio drama. Regular episodes include a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring, a secret-message app by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| CSS Vigilant Episode 6 : Point of No Return | 11 sept. 2026 | 00:09:24 | |
Ascendancy boarders are inside Vigilant's hull and the trap is still unsprung. Anand holds the junction, Farrow buys seconds, and Vasquez waits for the enemy's own aggression to pull all ten reserve ships into the killing radius — knowing the detonation that ends Thorne's fleet may end her ship with it. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| CSS Vigilant Episode 5 : The Gambit | 09 sept. 2026 | 00:09:45 | |
Vasquez wakes, reads the wreck of the situation in minutes, and lays out a plan the whole crew privately thinks is suicide: play dead, and let the enemy fleet come in close enough to finish the job. The trap is set. Whether it closes in time is another question. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| CSS Vigilant Episode 4 : Command Falls | 07 sept. 2026 | 00:09:38 | |
With no relief coming, Vasquez pushes a hard forward maneuver to buy time and pays for it. Command passes to Commander Reyne, who has to hold a frightened crew together and make the next call alone, while Thorne senses the opening he's been waiting for. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| CSS Vigilant Episode 3: The Traitor's Signal | 05 sept. 2026 | 00:10:48 | |
There is a saboteur aboard Vigilant and the hunt for them strains every relationship on the ship. Vasquez handles it her own way — quiet, exact, and telling. Meanwhile Farrow pulls a transmission out of the noise that changes what holding the line is going to cost. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| CSS Vigilant Episode 2 — "First Blood" | 03 sept. 2026 | 00:10:21 | |
Vasquez turns the debris field itself into a weapon, funnelling the enemy vanguard into a killing lane — the crew's first real victory, and a costly one. Admiral Thorne absorbs the loss without blinking and adjusts. Then engineering finds something in the reactor damage that has no business being there. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||
| CSS Vigilant Episode 1 — "The Line We Hold" | 03 sept. 2026 | 00:10:31 | |
The war for the Corvus Strait comes down to one navigable corridor of open space: hold it and you control resupply, reinforcement, the whole war. When the Meridian Concord fleet is ordered to withdraw, a single aging destroyer — CSS Vigilant is left behind to hold the line until relief arrives. Captain Elena Vasquez takes the measure of her crew, the odds, and the man being sent to break them. Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354 | |||