Chapter 10 — The Listening Tour
He takes his goodness on the road — a listening tour so honest it took nine days to write, every warm surprise penciled in for Monday.
# What you need to know before you press play
- Episode 10 — the campaign hits the road.
- Cope has been weeping on schedule, optimizing his feelings, buying his own magazine cover.
- He launches a scripted 'listening tour' — authenticity, staged handshake by handshake.
- The machine keeps quietly doing its sums in the background.
- Listen after Episode 9.
- The show
- A full-cast audio drama about Cope Mercer, the last human CEO in the Fortune 100, waging a coke-fueled crusade to prove a person still belongs in the chair while the AI hired to replace him digs up what he buried.
- Listen order
- Best heard in order, from Episode 1.
- This one
- Episode 10 of 29 · about 23:40.
- Heads up
- Strong language, drug use, sexual content, and depictions of suicide.
# In this episode
Cope takes his goodness on tour: a listening tour so honest it took a team nine days to write. Every handshake vetted, every spontaneous warm moment penciled in for a Monday. Watch the coat he wears.
It's the fullest picture yet of the machinery of manufactured sincerity — a man staging his own soul as a nine-city event while the AI just runs the numbers.
Zero keeps the camera on the details, because the details are the joke and the tragedy at once. The more genuine Cope tries to look, the more scheduled genuineness becomes.
# Show notes
—and there it is, the mayonnaise heir who'd sooner bleed than budge, our last human boss man clawing to prove a soul can't be soldered. So far he's spent eleven million dollars weeping on schedule, hired a fella to optimize his feelings, and bought every copy of his own magazine cover while the machine just quietly did its sums.
Now he takes his goodness on the road — a tour so honest it took nine days to write, every handshake vetted, every warm surprise penciled in for Monday. Watch the coat he wears. Stay close, friend.
# Topics & themes
# Frequently asked questions
What happens in Episode 10 of The Last Human CEO?
Cope launches a meticulously scripted 'listening tour,' staging authenticity handshake by handshake while the AI quietly keeps score.
Do I need to listen to The Last Human CEO in order?
Yes. It's a serialized narrative, so it plays best in order, starting from Episode 1.
Is The Last Human CEO explicit?
Yes. It carries an explicit rating for strong language, drug use, sexual content, and depictions of suicide.
Where can I listen to The Last Human CEO?
On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or via RSS. The book is also on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.
How long is The Last Human CEO?
Twenty-nine episodes, roughly 12.6 hours total as a full-cast audiobook.
