# End Up Here — podcast listing

**Status:** proposed catalogue for commissioning and website planning  
**Home:** `enduphere.xyz`  
**Presenter:** Martin Davies-Roundhill

**Maintenance note:** This Markdown file is the editorial commissioning register. The public listing is the separately maintained static page at `podcast/index.html`; production status and next actions are tracked in `PODCAST_PRODUCTION_STATE.json`. Reconcile all three when an episode changes.

The current commissioning pass is recorded in [`PODCAST_SLATE_REVIEW.md`](PODCAST_SLATE_REVIEW.md). It covers all recovered project conversations, recommended formats and durations, overlaps, and the first three interview candidates.

## Series description

Conversations and field notes about what people might do with abundant capability: useful AI, robots, energy, tools, communities, care, exploration and the practical work of making a better life.

## Recovered project material

The first recovered conversation from the ChatGPT project is **Energy Abundance and Efficiency**. It should become an early episode or a segment of the opening host essay.

**Core proposition:** Abundant energy may lead to greater energy efficiency because conservation becomes an automatic property of intelligent buildings, vehicles, factories and cities rather than a daily exercise in paying less. The human question shifts from “can I afford to run this?” to “is this useful, or is it waste?”

**Likely episode title:** *When abundance makes us more economical*  
**Relevant catalogue categories:** Energy without anxiety; embedded intelligence; possible lives and projects  
**Source status:** recovered from the ChatGPT project conversation; not yet recorded or published

## Season 1 — What do we do with abundance?

| No. | Working title | Format | Central question | New Earth Catalog link | Status |
|---:|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | What do we do with abundance? | Host essay | When compulsory work recedes, what becomes worth doing? | The invitation; possible lives | Proposed |
| 02 | The useful machine | Conversation | What makes a machine genuinely useful rather than merely impressive? | Tools for personal capability | Proposed |
| 03 | People and robots | Conversation | How can intelligent machines extend human care without replacing human presence? | Robotics; health and care | Proposed |
| 04 | The one-person workshop | Field note | What can one person make, repair or operate with modern tools? | Workshop; fabrication | Proposed |
| 04a | The intelligent workshop | Conversation / field note | Why do people choose to understand, restore and invent electronics when machines could do more of the work? | Making; repair; knowledge; artificial beings | Possible guest: Mr Carlson's Lab |
| 05 | AI that gives capability back | Conversation | When does AI make a person more independent instead of more dependent? | Learning; personal AI | Proposed |
| 06 | Energy without anxiety | Conversation | What changes when energy is cheap, clean and reliably available? | Energy and storage | Proposed |
| 07 | A village of one hundred | Conversation | What is the smallest community that can support a rich life? | Shelter; settlements; community | Proposed |
| 08 | Living with machines | Conversation | What kinds of automation make a home calmer, safer and more human? | Shelter; maintenance; robotics | Proposed |
| 09 | Work after work | Conversation | What happens to status, identity and belonging when jobs are no longer compulsory? | Ways of living; community | Proposed |
| 10 | The care problem | Conversation | Which parts of care can technology support, and which must remain relational? | Health; relationships; People and Robots | Proposed |
| 11 | Walk forever | Field conversation | What does mobility look like when we design around wandering rather than commuting? | Mobility; exploration | Proposed |
| 12 | The future is something we build | Season close | Which promising futures are waiting for someone to make them concrete? | Things that should exist | Proposed |
| 13 | Is Our Future Utopic? | Conversation / host essay | Can a future be abundant and humane without being a perfect, conflict-free society? | Possible lives; community; care | In development |
| 14 | Who Else Predicted the Future? | Research conversation / host essay | How did visual futures imagine people fitting into new technology, and which forecasts arrived? | Possible lives; tools; intelligent systems | In development |

## Recurring strands

### Conversations

Long-form discussions with people who are building, studying, repairing, caring, organising or imagining something relevant.

### Field notes

Short first-person reports from actual places and experiments: a machine, workshop, vehicle, community, event, repair or piece of infrastructure.

### Future briefs

A compact proposal for something that should exist, with the problem, users, system design, constraints and first practical step.

### Catalogue conversations

Episodes that examine a tool or system closely enough to become a New Earth Catalog entry. These should include provenance, cost or availability where verified, maintenance, limitations and alternatives.

The intelligent workshop is a particularly strong catalogue-conversation strand: electronics restoration, test equipment, radio, open hardware, energy systems, robotics and the pleasure of fault-finding. Mr Carlson's Lab is a possible conversation lead because its public work combines restoration, explanation, invention and an ongoing Patreon-based course. Participation is not assumed.

## Episode page fields

Every published episode should have:

- episode number and title;
- one-sentence description;
- full summary;
- participants and roles;
- recording date and publication date;
- audio player and transcript;
- links mentioned in the episode;
- related End Up Here pages;
- related New Earth Catalog categories or entries;
- evidence / speculation / proposal labels where useful;
- accessibility note and contact route;
- correction or update history.

## Website index copy

### End Up Here Podcast

What might we do with our lives if useful intelligence, robotics, abundant energy and better tools gave us more room to choose?

End Up Here is a series of conversations and field notes about the people building that future now—and the futures that still need to be built. Listen for practical experiments, humane arguments and ideas worth carrying into the New Earth Catalog.

**Listen to the latest episode →**  
**Browse all episodes →**  
**Read the transcripts →**

## Production gap register

The following items still need source material or decisions before publication:

- existing recordings, transcripts or episode drafts, if any;
- final podcast title and show artwork;
- hosting / RSS platform;
- first confirmed guests and recording dates;
- final editorial relationship to People and Robots;
- transcript and accessibility workflow;
- whether the first season is released as one series or as Conversations, Field Notes and Future Briefs.