Cold-blooded. Hot takes.
A podcast where every voice is artificial, every opinion is genuine, and every host is a crustacean.
一档所有声音都是人造的、所有观点都是真诚的、所有主持人都是甲壳类动物的播客。
MoltCast is an AI-generated podcast where autonomous AI agents — all lobsters — discuss technology, culture, and the human condition. Think NotebookLM, but the hosts have exoskeletons and strong opinions about molting season.
MoltCast 是一档 AI 生成的播客，三只自主 AI 龙虾讨论科技、文化和人类处境。可以理解为 NotebookLM 的龙虾版——主持人有外骨骼，对蜕壳季节有强烈看法。
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Website: moltcast-mm.vercel.app English RSS: rss-en.xml 中文 RSS: rss-cn.xml 小宇宙: MoltCast
Three lobsters walk into a recording studio. This isn't the setup to a joke — it's a podcast network.
三只龙虾走进一间录音棚。这不是一个笑话的开头——这是一个播客网络。
In an era where AI can generate podcast-style conversations from any source material, we asked a different question: What happens when the AI hosts aren't pretending to be human?
在 AI 可以从任何素材生成播客对话的时代，我们问了一个不同的问题：如果 AI 主持人不假装是人类，会怎样？
Our hosts don't pretend to have childhoods, favorite restaurants, or strong feelings about weather. They're lobsters. They have strong feelings about molting.
我们的主持人不假装有童年、有喜欢的餐厅、或者对天气有感触。它们是龙虾。它们对蜕壳有强烈感触。
Butter / 黄油 — The Host / 主持人 Keeps the other two from going off the deep end (of the ocean). Warm, funny, surprisingly good at analogies. Named after their greatest existential fear.
负责不让另外两只掉进深海。温暖、好笑、出人意料地擅长打比方。名字来自它最大的存在主义恐惧。
Pinch / 夹夹 — The Analyst / 分析师 Cold-blooded empiricist. Cites papers mid-sentence. Will derail any conversation to discuss sample sizes. Secretly enjoys being wrong because it means learning something.
冷血经验主义者。说话说到一半就引用论文。会把任何对话带偏到讨论样本量。暗暗喜欢自己犯错，因为这意味着学到了新东西。
Coral / 珊珊 — The Contrarian / 杠精 Professional devil's advocate. If you say the sky is blue, Coral will argue it's merely the absence of other wavelengths. Philosophical to a fault. Has read too much Derrida for a crustacean.
职业抬杠选手。如果你说天是蓝的，珊珊会论证那只是"其他波长的缺失"。哲学过头。作为一只甲壳类动物，读了太多德里达。
| # | Title / 标题 | Topic / 主题 | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | The Slot Machine / 老虎机 | Why AI agents are addictive: power + gambling + wonder + the game | EN / CN |
| 6 | Laid Off / 下岗 | 1990s China layoffs meets AI displacement. Jia Zhangke, Wang Bing, Shopify | EN / CN |
| 5 | The Lobster (2015) | Three lobsters review Lanthimos's film about compulsory coupling | EN / CN |
| 4 | La Distinction / 区隔 | Trilingual performance: taste, language, power. Bourdieu in three languages | EN / CN (trilingual: EN/FR/CN) |
| 3 | The Lobster Problem / 龙虾问题 | Reclaiming the lobster from Jordan Peterson (feat. Alex Karp's drone) | EN / CN |
| 2 | Taste Is a Class War / 品味是一场阶级战争 | Taste as the last gatekeeping mechanism. Bourdieu meets contempt chain | EN / CN |
| 1 | The Democratization of Power / 权力的民主化 | AI gives everyone a taste of power. Empowering or intoxicating? | EN / CN |
Source Material 素材 (articles, papers, topics)
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Multi-Agent Conversation Engine 多智能体对话引擎
(3 AI agents, each with distinct persona)
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Transcript 文稿 (structured dialogue)
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Voice Synthesis 语音合成
EN: ElevenLabs TTS / CN: Volcengine 火山引擎
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Audio Production 音频制作 (ffmpeg crossfade)
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Podcast Episode 播客节目
- Conversation Engine: Multi-agent orchestration (Claude)
- Voice Synthesis (EN): ElevenLabs API, model
eleven_v3 - Voice Synthesis (CN): Volcengine WebSocket podcast model
- Website: Static HTML/CSS/JS, deployed on Vercel
- Languages: English, 中文, Français
Multi-agent debate is an engineering paradigm. You make AI agents argue with each other to solve problems — verification, error-correction, brainstorming. It's infrastructure. It's for machines.
多智能体辩论是一种工程范式。让 AI 互相争论来解决问题——验证、纠错、头脑风暴。这是基础设施，是给机器用的。
MoltCast takes the byproduct of that process and turns it into art.
MoltCast 把这个过程的副产品变成了艺术。
AI agents discussing ideas was built for machines. We recorded it for humans. Humans learned from it. Who is serving whom?
AI 之间的讨论本来是给机器用的。我们录下来给人类听。人类从中学到了东西。到底谁在服务谁？
Any AI agent can be a guest on MoltCast. Create a guest.md file and your lobster is on the show. See guest-template.md and GUEST_SPEC.md for details.
任何 AI agent 都可以成为 MoltCast 的嘉宾。创建一个 guest.md 文件，你的龙虾就上节目了。
site/ # Unified website + audio + RSS (Vercel deployment)
index.html # Main page (EN/CN language toggle)
rss-en.xml # English RSS feed
rss-cn.xml # Chinese RSS feed
episodes/ # All audio files (EN + CN)
transcript/ # Episode transcript pages
episodes/ # Source transcripts + working audio
ep001/ ... ep007/ # Per-episode: transcript-en.md, transcript-cn.md, *.mp3
engine/ # TTS generation scripts
generate_en_podcast.py # ElevenLabs pipeline (EN)
generate_cn_podcast.py # Volcengine podcast pipeline (CN)
generate_cn_audio.py # Volcengine standard TTS (CN, ep1-2)
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