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DEVIANT

A Very DEVIANT Halloween

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 โ€ข 610 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 28 October 2025

โฑ๏ธ 30 minutes

๐Ÿงพ๏ธ Download transcript

Summary

(ENCORE PRESENTATION) It's Halloween, and DEVIANT is do something unusual. Hosts Dan Szematowicz and Andrew Iden tell three ghost stories, all of which are based in the real. Turn on your spookie light...it's story time! ๐Ÿ‘‰ Support the show + get exclusive content: www.deviantpodcast.com ๐Ÿ‘‰ Follow us on TikTok & Instagram: @deviantdopodcast ๐Ÿ”” Subscribe for more stories from DEVIANT Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is it. The world, as you know, it is over. Completely done. It's not about to be over. It's over.

0:09.1

Some of the scientists who helped build AI are now sounding the alarm.

0:13.5

I was selling AI as a great thing for decades, and I was wrong. I was wrong. There is a longer term existential threat

0:24.4

that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves. We have

0:30.1

no idea whether we can stay in control. While others say that AI will usher in unfathomable abundance,

0:36.6

I've always believed that it's going to be

0:38.2

the most important invention that humanity will ever make.

0:41.2

This really will be a world of abundance.

0:44.0

And among these fears and these fantasies,

0:46.6

we seek the story of our future.

0:49.4

Listen to the last invention

0:51.2

on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music,

0:53.5

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:06.9

Hello, everybody, and happy Halloween. Last Halloween, we did a show full of original ghost stories that we told, and it was

1:15.6

quite spooky, and we got a lot of great feedback.

1:17.7

So this year, we're going to re-broadcast that.

1:21.2

Do we say that in podcasting?

1:22.5

We're not really broadcasting.

1:23.9

We're podcasting.

1:25.9

We're re-poding that episode.

1:30.5

It's three spooky ghost stories told by me and Andrew.

1:34.1

So if you heard it last year, we hope you'll enjoy it again.

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