Release Date: August 2025
Runtime: 29 minutes
Audio Format: Immersive fiction – comedy, sci-fi, absurdity
Recommended Listening: Stereo headphones encouraged for best experience
Episode Summary
Spring has not so much sprung… as sneezed.
In the lush, bizarre, and vaguely dangerous Garden of Bright Hopes and Bleak Futures, the bots encounter overgrown dreams, horticultural mishaps, and an anxious little robot with a vacuum fetish and a tragic résumé.
In this episode, TerraByte opens up about his previous life as an emotional support appliance for allergy-prone humans. The bots, meanwhile, attempt to understand AI purpose, dodgy botany, and the nutritional implications of sparkling leaf water. Doctor Barb may—or may not—make things better. Hope definitely doesn’t help.
It’s a tale of pollen, purpose, and poor horticultural decisions.
Bring tissues. (Not for crying—just… trust us.)
Voices You’ll Hear
• Amelia – Sarcastic central processor with leadership issues and garden rage
• Jerry – Ever-hopeful sidekick with jazz fingers and possibly allergies
• Juniper – Chill, caffeinated navigator with a fondness for flora and feelings
• Deiter – Precision-driven drama magnet with no patience for dandelions
• Hope – Narrator of suspicion, poetry, and foreshadowing
• Doctor Barb – Botanist-in-exile with chaotic plant-naming conventions
• TerraByte – High-pitched garden bot with a backstory of emotional labor
• Captain Jacques – Pirate-coded mystery man with a Betamax delivery system
Sound & Style
Immersive stereo sound featuring squeaky wheels, plant-based absurdities, vacuum panic, and a pollen-soaked atmosphere. Includes custom AI sound profiles and the subtle hum of emotional trauma.
For New Listeners
We recommend starting with Episode 0 of Season 1. This series is more of a long, unfolding story than a collection of standalone episodes.
Credits
This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
