Max & Nina
The two-person desk that reads every headline straight, no matter how big the story is relative to the set. Calm on camera. Not always calm off it.
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"The story is real. The newsroom is three inches tall."
Tiny anchors Max and Nina break down the day's wildest tech and economy stories — live from a miniature newsroom where the crew behind the camera is having a worse day than anyone on it.
Max and Nina run the smallest 24-hour desk in the business — a studio you could hold in one hand, reporting on stories too big for anyone to hold at all. Oil breaking $100. AI labs disagreeing about their own pace. A rocket launch that made a miniature astronaut sprint straight through the set.
Nobody told the crew the newsroom would be this small, and it shows. Somewhere off-camera, something is always going wrong — a mic drops, a graphic freezes, someone asks out loud whether the computers are listening. The broadcast keeps going anyway. That's the joke and the point: the news doesn't wait for the newsroom to be ready.
Real headlines. Tiny desk. The chaos is not a bug in the format — it is the format.
Who's on the desk
The two-person desk that reads every headline straight, no matter how big the story is relative to the set. Calm on camera. Not always calm off it.
Never on camera, always audible. The real comedy engine of the show — the scramble happening just out of frame while the anchors keep a straight face.
Whatever's actually breaking that week — oil, AI, orbit. Real news, reported at a scale that makes the stakes feel both smaller and, somehow, more honest.
Every broadcast
Ep 01
Oil ShockMarkets break $100The live desk broadcast while the crew has a meltdown in the background.
Ep 02
AI SafetyTech giants clashMax and Nina break down the fight while the crew scrambles over whether the computers are listening.
Ep 03
Space RaceThe newsroom gets outpacedSpaceX's 700th Falcon launch, Starship's move to Florida, and a miniature astronaut rocketing through the studio.
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