He Built an AI Podcast and It Became the #1 Show.

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Colin and Samir

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4.9 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This episode isn’t about AI tools. It’s about what happens when content makes itself. Adam (levy.eth) built a fully automated, AI-generated podcast about the Epstein Files. No hosts. No studio. No production team. It became the #1 podcast in the UK, beating ABC News, the BBC, and Audible — and he was doing about 5% of the work. In this episode, Samir sits down with Adam to break down exactly how he built it, what it cost, and what the numbers look like on the other side. But the conversation quickly becomes something bigger — a real-time reckoning with what AI means for the creator economy, for the people who've spent years building audiences by hand, and for what it means to make something worth making at all. They get into: How Distill became the foundation for a fully autonomous podcast network Why daily content is the stickiest product in media — and how AI is the only thing that can truly do it The economics that are breaking open: $1 per episode, profitable at 20 listeners What the five-minute mark tells us about where audiences are headed Why AI won't kill creative careers — but will force creators to be radically more honest This is one of the most important conversations we've had on the show. And it's only getting more relevant by the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, before we start this episode, I need to play something for you.
0:02.9	You are listening to The Epstein Files, the world's first AI-native investigation into the case that traditional journalism simply could not handle.
0:14.9	Welcome to the Epstein Files.
0:16.5	Last time, we traced the Dubin family's post-conviction ties to Epstein, a 2010 social invitation, subpoenaed financial records, and victim testimony naming their household.
0:28.2	Today, we are looking at official White House visitor logs showing Epstein entered the Clinton White House at least 17 times between 1993 and 2000, while his abuse operation...
0:37.9	So what you just heard is not hosted by humans.
0:40.7	There's no studio.
0:42.2	There's no mics.
0:43.1	And there's no real hosts to this.
0:45.4	This podcast was written, voiced, and published by AI automatically based on whatever the
0:51.0	news was that day.
0:52.8	And it did it yesterday, the day before,
0:56.4	and it'll do it again tomorrow.
0:58.2	The show is called the Epstein Files,
0:59.8	and in its first week, it had over 100,000 downloads.
1:03.4	And last week, only a few months later,
1:05.6	the guy who built it woke up to a notification.
1:08.5	His show had become the number one podcast in the UK.
1:12.1	He tweeted the screenshot of the chart with three words, just getting started.
1:17.1	Only a few months after launching the Epstein files, he launched a second show called Wardesk,
1:22.2	a daily AI-generated breakdown about global conflict.
1:26.3	Welcome back to Wardesk. Last time, we covered Mark 15, 2026, day 16 of Operation Epic Fury.
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