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EP 00 · 2026-07-25 · ~8 min · punch-up PASS
“Pilot”
Proof-of-concept transmission. The signal boots up, the anchors find the desk, and they start reading the real news to no one — refusing, from the first second, to admit what they are.
0:00PENDING
TRANSMISSION PENDING — signal not yet patched to the feed
Running order
- 01SPZ INTRO“What this is”
- 02TOP OF SHOW“We're people, Chip”
- 03THE NEWS“Real, cited, badly understood”
- 04SIGN-OFF“Back to you, Diane”
The Receipts
every claim, dated + attributedPilot — real, dated, attributed news items
PROVENEvery news item in the pilot is real and cited in the script's Sources section; the full receipts land here once the episode is rendered and published.
Spot an error? Corrections are canon — send a receipt and it gets carried forward.