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Woke Up Conversations

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Died. Briefed. Woke up. The podcast where history talks back. — METHODOLOGY Woke Up Conversations is an AI-persona interview series. Historical figures are reconstructed via a language model briefed on their primary works, biographical record, and the world as it stands today. Questions are prepared by the host. The conversation runs unscripted from there in a single thread. Nothing said by the guest is edited for accuracy after the fact — corrections live in the published fact-check document. Host questions are lightly adapted from written to spoken form; the substance is unchanged. Individua...

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Woke Up — Friedrich Nietzsche: They Used the Knife to Spread Butter 11.07.2026 2:16:17

Friedrich Nietzsche died in 1900. He woke up here. We asked him about his sister Elizabeth, whether the Übermensch survives contact with an attention economy engineered specifically to defeat it, what he actually meant by "will to power" versus how it's used to justify modern wealth inequality, and whether he'd live his entire life again — eternal recurrence, tested against the man who invented it...

Woke Up — Marcus Aurelius: The Colosseum Was More Honest 11.06.2026 2:21:09

Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD. He woke up here. We asked him about the attention economy, the Commodus decision, why he thinks Colosseum was more honest than social media, what's actually wrong with modern democracy, the mental health collapse, and whether Stoicism survives contact with an opponent specifically engineered to defeat it. The guest is an AI persona. We're fully transparent about tha...

Woke Up — Trailer: This Is What We're Doing 01.06.2026 5:49

Before the first guest. Before the first question. This is what the show is, how it works, and why it exists. One episode a month. Twelve months. Historical figures reconstructed as AI personas, briefed on what happened after they died, and asked the questions we actually want answers to. No reverence. No resolution handed to you. — METHODOLOGY Woke Up Conversations is an AI-persona interview seri...