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EP 01 · 2026-08-31 · ~14 min · punch-up PASS

“Ultra-Silent”

A Colombian wearable sells out with no published decibel rating, four market-research firms can't agree on the industry's size within a hundred billion dollars, an unlocked server exposes 43 million private AI-girlfriend messages, Apple and Google keep "removed" nudify apps up until a city attorney makes them take them down, and a sex-toy CEO threatens the researchers who fixed his security bugs for free.

Running order

  1. 01[0] SPZ INTRO“What this is”
  2. 02[1] TOP OF SHOW“Top of Show”
  3. 03[2] THE PRODUCT DESK“Ultra-Silent”PROVEN
  4. 04[3] THE MONEY DESK“The Shame Tax”PROVEN
  5. 05[4] THE COMPANION DESK“Forty-Three Million Things You Didn't Mean to Say Out Loud”PROVEN
  6. 06[5] REGULATION & MORAL PANIC“The Apps They Promised to Remove”PROVEN
  7. 07[6] ASK VERA“Ask Vera”
  8. 08[7] ONE MORE THING“One More Thing”PROVEN
  9. 09[8] QUICK HITS“Quick Hits”PROVEN
  10. 10[9] SIGN-OFF“Conversion Score”
  11. 11[10] SPZ CLOSER“Signal Finds Signal”

The Receipts

every claim, dated + attributed

Segment [2] — The Product Desk

PROVEN

A Colombian intimate-wellness brand's "advanced ultra-silent technology" wearable sold out in the US, with retailers reporting 3,000+ units gone within days and no published decibel rating

Segment [3] — The Money Desk

PROVEN

Three independent market-research firms give wildly divergent sex-tech market-size forecasts for the same rough window — a 100+ billion dollar spread by 2030-2035

Segment [4] — The Companion Desk

PROVEN

An unprotected server exposed 43M+ messages and 600K+ images from two AI-companion apps; the FTC opened a formal inquiry into seven companion-chatbot makers; California passed SB 243; Italy fined Replika's parent company €5M

Segment [5] — Regulation & Moral Panic

PROVEN

47 "nudify" apps were found live on Apple's App Store in January with only 3 removed; both platforms kept listing them into April; San Francisco's city attorney sent legal demands over 8 of them in July

Segment [7] — One More Thing

PROVEN

A sex-toy maker fixed security bugs that exposed users' data, then its CEO threatened legal action against the researchers who reported them

Segment [8] — Quick Hits

PROVEN

The sex-doll market segment was worth $6.6B in 2025, projected to more than double to $13.4B by 2033, with AI the fastest-growing part of the category

Spot an error? Corrections are canon — send a receipt and it gets carried forward.